I think the reference to April being the Final Update is just meaning it’s the final update for NFP. The other comments about the future are fairly anodyne. FXS aren’t saying yes or no to more content, and of course they wouldn’t.
Will we get more content after April? Well, I really hope so, but it’s hard to say, isn’t it?
Reasons to be pessimistic. The big reason is just, for each year that passes, it’s of course less likely FXS keep adding to the game, whether because they feel the game won’t bear more content or they need to work on other properties or the returns aren’t there any more. That’s just maths. Including Portugal also feels a bit final too, as does a big balance pass in the April update. And while I don’t think FXS have said anything definitive either way, compared to what FXS have recently said about NFP, FXS’s tone after GS was perhaps a bit more positive - a little more explicitly “we’re not done yet”.
Reasons to be positive. Well, I’ve said all this before. There’s still content missing that one would otherwise expect Civ 6 would have based on past games, player feedback and what seem like deliberate gaps in the game (everything from unit gaps / trebuchets to reformation beliefs and ambassador spies to ideologies and more governors). There are Civs left that I think would still be strong draws for players even if they aren’t a big as Portugal, eg Austria, Italy / Venice, Morocco, Hittites. And lastly just the fact NFP seems to have been a roaring success and was itself clearly a test model for a way to deliver additional content over the long term. Seriously, why create a model for delivering more content to Civ 6, and then have that model be a success, and then... not deliver any more content with said model?
I really don’t know if we get more content. I think it’s 50:50 either way - maybe a bit less than 50:50, or perhaps I’m just saying that to manage my own expectations. I think a full expansion is off the cards just because NFP worked so well. For the same reason, I think another season pass could happen, and nothing I’ve read rules that out just yet. But FXS could also do something smaller “Legacy Pack” with a few game modes, some maybe focused on fan-service content like Corporations and Barbs did, some gap filling and a few final Civs and Alt leaders. I’d be disappointed if FXS do just stop here. I think Civ 6 is still short of the best version of itself - the lack of Ideologies and the lack of end game content are real misses in an otherwise fantastic game. But it’s not something I’ve got any control over, and there’s really very little confirmation either way, so all I can do is just cross my fingers and in the meantime play what I have (which is still lots of fun).
