This game needs to retroactively be labeled early access and refunds offered

[StargazingDog]

Watching this video has cemented my idea that these folks have no direction or focus on any sort of design. Listen to his words. Every other bullet point is "this is the first version...", "this is just the beginning", "this is only the start", "look forward to more" and so on. I don't want the "first version of auto-explore". Do your goddamn job, have some direction, play test it, and just add it to the game (or don't).

They are desperately combing through Reddit and Discord, spending most of their time backpedaling on everything that made Civ 7 unique. Instead of getting content for which I paid, I get a constant stream of optional design rollbacks. I have never been this frustrated with a game developer or publisher in my 45 years of gaming. This game needs to retroactively be labeled early access and refunds offered to any who ask.

 

[Lord Lakely]

Eh, it's the usual marketing babble that everyone does, no harm there. They're working on it, and that's important. Believe in your product.

What is outrageous, and I say this as someone who enjoys the game, is that Civ7 costs a small fortune (Rise to Rule costs 30 Euros. THIRTY.) and yet it has taken months to get basics in. After a supposed 8 year development cycle! Moderator Action: Please think before posting - 8 years Civ VI was still early in it's lifecycle!

Crediting the fanbase for a lot of the good changes is a bad idea, in that it STRONGLY implies you wouldn't have made those changes if it hadn't been for the fans. They do it to curry favour with them, but it has the opposite effect on me - I have less faith in Firaxis's abilities to improve their game without the playerbase holding their hand with every star I see in a series of patchnotes.

The game's good and getting better though. It's heinously overpriced, and I think THAT + the rough release is what turned off the fanbase. Nobody wants to pay a lot of money for something mediocre when that money is better spent elsewhere. The game was unfinished, and still isn't where Civ6 was when it released. It shows by the low player numbers, as only the diehard fans (like myself) are willing to cough up.

It is what it is. Civ7 will become a very good game with time, but Firaxis really dropped the ball with this development cycle. and of course by making it absurdly expensive.

 

[Lord Lakely]

oh and I agree with OP's general sentiment. If i were Firaxis, I would release a FREE set of Civs and leaders in a future patch. The game lacks content and if you really want to win over people, you must first demonstrate that you aren't GREEDY.

 

[Gen.Washington]

I'm all for being critical of civ 7 but lets lay off targeting one guy lol. He's just doing his job. If you want someone to admit they made mistakes it's not him.

 

[Nikolai II]

Moderator Action: Please refrain from targeting the devs personally and individually. Also, we have several threads active on the topic of complaints, let's use those ones, okay?