Sherlock
Just one more turn...
Yes, that was terrible. And he took no personal responsibility whatsoever, and demonstrated no insight as to what he would do differently in the future. I would also note Barbarians at the Gate is still not shipping...
Sure, it is pure profit, but it is not much profit. Isn't the nominal price for Civ5 Complete like $20 if you wait for a sale? Sales seems to be okay, but pretty flat.
I would expect the suits are comparing that to the $60 bucks they can expect on a new version -- with pretty much everyone who has already bought Civ5 as a potential customer.
So I think it comes down to how broken and buggy civ6 development is. Firaxis has demonstrated pretty convincingly that it only need be of beta quality. So I think we will see something in fall. I also agree with the folks pointing out that it could ship any time in 2017 and still be called a 25th anniversary edition.
At The Gates is now set for 2017. But every couple of months he says 'big update next month' but then another month goes by and another and another.
Looking like serious vaporware.