Once again, having leaders that "ruled nothing" isn't exactly new to the series. At least these two actually *existed* unlike some past choices.
Ottomans are in Tides of Power, so they won‘t be bundled with an Ottoman leader.
that's fair. i don't know her name because i have never delved into the history of barbary corsairs like that. i am familiar with barbarossa obviously but for the most part focused on traditional history. i failed to recall her name as an accident not a sleight. as to "how it sounds" ill leave that up to you because its clear what you are trying to imply. that being said, i think we can agree the classic civilizations should be added now. your saying they are saving them for later, but the problem with that is the game is basically dead as of right now. they need to add the fan favorites right NOW. i guarantee if they added a huge leader pack with alexander, montezuma, shaka etc it would really help the game. the average civilization player does not know who Sayyida is, nor do they want to play as her. Picking her instead of Hayreddin Barbarossa is just a total bozo move. just add historic, authentic cool characters. its not that hard.
if i got to pick the leaders for this expansion i would have done a Enrico Dandolo or Foscari plus Leif Erikson. they would both fit perfectly.
i reckon you are right. which is a shame. maybe that is part of why no one wants to play this stinker.
more power to you.
it makes it less likely in my view.
i think they have gone overboard with the wildcard picks and the game would benefit from more fan favorites and staples. their is no true "tier list" but there certainly are civilizations that are more recognizable.
They did. You don't have to like them, and you can prefer others, but uh yup that's what they did.
If they had chosen Barbarossa as the mediterranean pirate, I'm sure the other one would be Anne Bonny for the Caribbean one.
I'm positive they are saving them for later, it's through expansions you can entice players to come back in larger numbers not individual DLC's. An expansion with a whole lot of the fan favorite civs, with a bunch of heavily requested leaders, with really ravamped mechanics is the home run they need, or yes, civ VII will fail. the pacemeal thematic DLC's we are getting are the little steps to provide extra content while fixing and improving the mess they released, last patch was the first one I felt they were turning the corner, if they keep it up and then announce an expansion, I think that's the way to do it, civ players would show up.
If you’re implying that leaders need to show up in the game in the order of recognizability, I disagree, although I can see some value in taking recognizability into consideration. In fact, the devs may also agree with that to an extent since Sid Meier revealed that the design for the civs and leaders for the first game was largely inspired by what they saw in children’s books. If children can recognize how a civ or a leader is depicted in the game, the general gaming population should as well, and that’s a good thing because it means they don’t need to spend resources on the “lore” in order to explain what each civ/leader is about. I don’t know how much of that still applies to the series, but either way, I don’t think you have a strong case if you want to argue that the way Blackbeard is depicted in the game does not make some sort of recognizability threshold.
