Sid Meier's GDC2010 talk, obviously the Civ5 devs didnt listen.. Why?

[Mad Hab]

From Sid's speech:

"By providing the player perhaps too easy access to loading and saving you may actually be diminishing the experience for the player"

A-ha!!! That's why Civ5 makes me wait 5 minutes for my save game to load on a large/huge map!

Cheers!

Mad Hab

 

[Jarwy]

Sid hasn't had much influence in the Civ series sense civ1. He just came up with the idea and then other designers expanded on it. In fact Civ5 was supposed to have a lot of influence from Sid. I don't know how true that is though.

It looks to me that Civ 5 might just be the first civ game where Sid didn't have *enough* influence in design decisions. Or maybe he has lost interested after Civ 4: BtS. Who knowns. We really don't have a clue.