I think it's no coincidence the people who like this game more are also the people not able to express their opinion outside of snide insults
Seriously though, I'm a bit disappointed because I expected it to be a sequel to Civ 4. Its not a bad game on its own, the combat is more fun that Civ 4, but without the depth, I'm already kind of bored of it. I just don't see it being that hobby sort of game that 4 was. It's just plain for a different crowd, and that crowd is not me, which has me disapointed. Some people, casual people, will like it a lot more, people who were really in to tinkering with 4 will not like it as much.
Neither group is 'right'. It's the essence of stupidity to try to argue some objective 'X is better than Y'. People have different preferences and some people will like one better and some the other better.