I don't work for Firaxis, and I have no reason to care whether you buy their game or not.
I don't particularly like the situation where too many overpriced DLC has become the norm, but there really isn't any functional difference between Firaxis waiting 3 years to release the whole thing as one package, and you waiting three years to buy the whole thing at a discount. Choose your own degree of crossness.
There is something called the 'hype train' that drains some attention, even from me. For example, I wouldn't want to miss the topics (as opposed to the actual DLCs : I mean the meta game, not particularly cosmetics or civ or leader) here discussing about the optimal strategies since their beginning, because after a while it just becomes a huge amount of posts that I can't bother to read, added with necromancy if I decide to react to the OP 3 years later for example.
Anyway what I think now is that with all the previews, pre-release stuff, reviews that most of are kind of mixed, the game has been kind of spoiled before release. There's definitely no more this feeling of excitement. But I have to keep in mind that my tastes are solid (as a gamer-designer, often both being contradictory, but precisely in Civ7 they seem to match more than Civ6 at least), and that it's maybe not the case of all reviewers. (somebody gave them a bone, they tried to bit it and diverse impressions resulted in it) I mean, most people have no clue what to expect from a new Civilization. I do. But so far what I've seen is kind of mixed too so the one in the other... if I play this game one day I will try to focus on positives, and not being obsessed with Deity.
To clarify my OP and why I felt like I needed to share this, is that I just don't want the discussions focused exclusively on what's to come next, because apparently there's never enough, and this I fail to see why. The degree of concerns about the game is surprisingly low here, and I don't get why people just feel satisfied by what in the end is just news. They could just stick to H24 info news TV channels for Civ, if it existed. (oh wait, CivFanatics is a close up) I mean the hype is not there, it's about minor details that will make you love or hate the game. Granted, I missed most of them, but I have to say that Firaxis is terrible at making the rules of Civ obvious. I mean I learned by a youtuber that in Civ5, each city conquered was, even if razed, rising the cost of all technologies. That can come in handy when trying to beat the game at whatever difficulty it is set up. Because let's face it : everyone wants to play a game where one dominates, as long as one doesn't find it too ridiculously easy.
And crap, I just hate this launch. I feel that it's ridiculous, we need a degree to understand it, not to mention the ridiculous and nearly insulting pricing, and I just wanted to say it !
