Will there be a second expansion?

[Delgar]

They could do a Future Era expansion couldn't they. I always felt the modern and future eras were a little bland. Add some futuristic units? Futuristic techs? Add modern barbarians i.e. terrorists. Buff the UN so that you can do more stuff with it.

 

[bonafide11]

I'm honestly surprised by how many people expect another expansion. What else could they add to the game? Corporations are about it, and nobody really thought that highly of corporations in Civ IV, and with the way resources work in Civ V, I don't know that corporations are even necessary. What else do people expect to be included in the game to justify another expansion? With the amount of effort they are putting in this one, I just fully believe this is it.

 

[nokmirt]

I actually think there will be another expansion, adding features completely new to Civ altogether

Right, I feel they will go in a whole new direction. Civ is always evolving into something better. There are always new themes, features, and scenarios that can be added. New civs as well. If there wasn't a third expansion they'd lose a ton of money. They are game developers, but they have to eat too. I am sure they will work just as hard on the next expansion, as they have done with CiV and GaK.

 

[smallfish]

I'm honestly surprised by how many people expect another expansion. What else could they add to the game? Corporations are about it, and nobody really thought that highly of corporations in Civ IV, and with the way resources work in Civ V, I don't know that corporations are even necessary. What else do people expect to be included in the game to justify another expansion? With the amount of effort they are putting in this one, I just fully believe this is it.

Call to Power II-esque future units and SPs and gameplay mechanics :V

 

[Louis XXIV]

I'm honestly surprised by how many people expect another expansion. What else could they add to the game? Corporations are about it, and nobody really thought that highly of corporations in Civ IV, and with the way resources work in Civ V, I don't know that corporations are even necessary. What else do people expect to be included in the game to justify another expansion? With the amount of effort they are putting in this one, I just fully believe this is it.

While I don't think there will be another expansion, it's worth pointing out that corporations were a surprise for Civ4 so there might be another surprise.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

I think that there will be a second expansion. There's a lot of excitement around G+K; in fact, on the 2k forums, there's something like six or seven times as much activity with the G+K forums than there is for Borderlands 2, X-Com et al. Additionally, Civ games have traditionally had two expansions, so why not carry this through to Civ V?

What could it have? How about the ability to have more than one leader per civ and having the unique ability tied in with the leader? There'd be some good candidates for that, especially those where the new leader would be from a different era; Churchill for England, Stalin for Russia, an ancient leader for Ethiopia, and so on. What would be brilliant would be the occasional civil war which split civs in two (which we've not seen since the original civ). If that was done right, especially with multiple leaders, we could have two factions of the same civ ruled by the different leaders for that civ.

 

[Snoopaloop]

I think there will most likely be another full expansion. If not then alteast some popular DLC civs, that are unlikely to be part of G+K, could be released. (Thinking Portugal, Zulu, and Sumerians)

 

[drubell]

If there was an expansion, what sort of new features do you think would be in it? Outside of mechanics from earlier civ games like capitulation, corruption, etc, what is in another similar game like Civ that would have an interesting feature for Civ5 to adopt?

 

[Deggial]

I was absolutely sure about the first expansion, unlike others (for incomprehensible reasons).

About a second on, I'm not:
- G&K adds so much content, that there is really not so much left, without making the game really complex - something that devs wanted to avoid in CiV (at least at the beginning. Granted, G&K changes things a bit...)
- Compared to Civ4, "Warlords" is equivalent to CiV DLC, "BtS" to "G&K".

BUT:
While I'm not sure about a second expansion, I still hope for it!
And while I did write not much is left, there is still something thinkable:
- trading posts expanded to growing villages (in a new "interpretation", just as they did with religion and espionage)
- international trading routes
- a local health system using bonus resources (in a new interpretation, too)
- corporations (also in a new interpretation!)
- some new ideas, not taken out of Civ 4.

I am currently fooling around with some ideas for this. If all the reasonable buzz about G&K calms down a little bit (and we learned what is actually *in* the add-on), I'll probably post my ideas.
Regarding the health system, I already did here.
New concepts regarding trading posts and corporations do exist already, too.

SUMMARY:
While I don't reckon with a second expansion, I do hope for it. This second expansion could concentrate on national/international trade and health mechanisms and could possibly be named "Trade & Prosperity".

 

[Haig]

I remember when people were adamant that there wont be any expansions or any more DLC for Civ V and were surprised when G&K was released. I admit I was pleasantly surprised too, so I think that anything is possible and there will be another expansion.

It could include:
Graphic sets for units in different styles, asian, south american etc.
International trade routes(if it is not in G&K)
New Civs, units, wonders, scenarios, resources..
United Nations expanded
Mercenary system
Rebellion system

 

[Pmck6]

This is a long long shot but what I really hope for (among other things) in a future expansion (or even game) is when you or someone build the UN that the diplomacy screen changes to a recreaction of a boardroom in the UN with all the leaders playing sitting around the table, you could click on them to talk to them alone ....
Alone:
1. Trading
2. Declarations of Friendship
3. Threats etc.

Or you could annouce it to everyone...
Everyone:
1. Declarations of War
2. Proposals of Trade Embargos etc

Of course they would really have to rework the diplomacy system and add in a heap of new options but it would be really cool!

A guy can dream.....

 

[Babri]

I would be shocked if we see a second expansion. I don't think there are enough things to add to the game without just adding things for the sake of it, and then it really isn't fun anymore when it just gets bogged down. While previous games have had two expansions, it feels different for Civ V. I believe in Civ IV, Warlords was released roughly a year after the original game, and then BTS roughly a year after Warlords. The release of G+K will be almost two years after Civ V was released. Plus, with DLC, they don't need to release expansions to make money, they can just release some additional civs and/or wonders.

. Warlords added few 'new features'. Most of it was GGs, UBs, new civs, wonder, buildings etc. CiV has dones the same through DLCs. Secondly G&K rivals Bts in terms of content. Firaxis should focus on balancing, releasing DLL & some DLCs after this xpack.
And I don't think 'XP1' in achievements is sufficient to say that there will be another xpack. I remember some aoe fans speculated that aoe 3 exes were age3, age3x & age3y so another xpansion would be released whose exe would be age3z. Of course that never happened.

 

[JFD]

Doesn't it say at the end of the Tech Tree or something that more future content was coming in a future expansion? Gods and Kings doesn't seem to fit the bill for this, so maybe there would be another one focussing on the future era. I'm pretty sure Gods and Kings will sell well enough to make another expansion financially viable, but I'm still doubtful.

 

[CYZ]

I'm strongly convinced a new expansion is planned. Mostly for one reason. Bonus resourcers are screaming to be used. They're already in the game and all they need is a good health mechanic. Some proposed ideas on this forum seem so obvious that I'm convinced something like this is being planned.

 

[Delgar]

Whether or not there really is going to be another expansion after G&K, no one knows for sure (except the folks at Firaxis maybe).

But what we can do, as a community, is to come up with tonnes of interesting ideas and therefore increase our support for a second expansion, to make it more likely that Firaxis will have the (financial) motivation to create one

 

[Nyanko]

The average wait between civs is 5-6 years. I for one hope for another expansion so we get something new in the intervening 4 years between now and Civ VI

 

[Pmck6]

4-6 years? I would be extremely disappointed if it takes a big corporation like 2K games 4 years to develop Civ VI when they already have a massive pool of resources, a great foundation to start with (Civ V, IV, etc) and a dedicated team of developers!

 

[Delgar]

4-6 years? I would be extremely disappointed if it takes a big corporation like 2K games 4 years to develop Civ VI when they already have a massive pool of resources, a great foundation to start with (Civ V, IV, etc) and a dedicated team of developers!

How long is acceptable to you, then?

 

[anandus]

4-6 years? I would be extremely disappointed if it takes a big corporation like 2K games 4 years to develop Civ VI when they already have a massive pool of resources, a great foundation to start with (Civ V, IV, etc) and a dedicated team of developers!

Mind you, Civ isn't the only game they're working on.
Besides, a new game takes time, two, maybe three years to develop.

 

[Nyanko]

4-6 years? I would be extremely disappointed if it takes a big corporation like 2K games 4 years to develop Civ VI when they already have a massive pool of resources, a great foundation to start with (Civ V, IV, etc) and a dedicated team of developers!

Oh Im sure they can do it faster if they wanted to. But Im going by history
Civ 1 = 1991
Civ 2 = 1996
Civ 3 = 2001
Civ 4 = 2005
Civ 6 = (late 2010)