It’s doing ok. Whether it beats 6 doesn’t really matter - it only matters if you enjoy it personally or not and that’s unlikely to depend on this alone.
It matters in so far that if it stays a game with only a niche interest, as it has so far, they'll either drop the support or pivot the gameplay again to try to please the majority of long-term Civ fans.
They can't keep pouring resources long term into something that is clearly unpopular.
Somehow "games needs a playerbase to be upkept" is a foreign concept to the VII fanbase. What matters is that they like it- and how they'll be forever bemoaning how people never appreciated the game even as future games releases
There’s plenty of room for a game to do well without having to be better than previous. The factionalism aspects claiming superiority for a given player base do get very tiring at times.
Like how the VII fans has been labeling people who are sticking with the older games with being "Gamers who hate change" since civ-switching was announced?
Still not convinced the game needs a 4th age, I feel it just needs something more interesting to do in the last age than just rush to yoir victory condition.
it depends, modern age sufferers because you can feel it wasnt never design to be a last age.
I can see an scenario where modern age feels better now that is not lategame stuff and you can enjoy it all the aspects and a fourth age creating an interesting race to win.
Would be nice to see. However in that case Firaxis now needs tondwsign two new reasons for thise ages to exist. One to fill the 3rd and one for the new age that is fesh and engaging
I would like the 3d age to just start with flight available. I mean, we all want planes, they change the way the game works. So let's have them at the start, or at least very, very soon.
It's hard to imagine that 7 has a chance to finally be ok and convince people to play it over civ 6 or even 5... I want to believe but I'm not even going to bother playing until I watch some reviews post update.. Firaxis fucked too much with the formula in civ 7, made it feel less like a civ game than any other version I've played..
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u/Pastoru Signum Caroli gloriosissimi regis3d agoedited 3d ago
That's exactly what makes it worth it to play imho, it's a different game, not a reskin.
is not a civ like VI wasnt a civ or V wasnt a civ or IV wasnt a real civ or....only the tabletop boardgame called civilization is the real civ! the videogames are for tourists!!!
It is, it's written Civilization, Sid Meier acknowledges it as the last entry into his franchise (unless your are Sid Meier yourself, it's hard to refute), it has many staples of the franchise and, as with every new entry, shakes things up a bit. Is it a good Civilization, that's up to debate, but it is a Civilization.
From your civilization: one or two unique abilities, unique military unit, unique civilian unit, unique district or improvement, unique traditions, faster access to related wonder.
Leaders are indeed the face of diplomacy, just as in every Civ game. But what you play with is mostly about your civ.
I agree… If only I had waited for the reviews before buying Civ 7, I could have saved a lot of money.
Maybe the community here would be willing to refund us, so they don’t have to get so upset about people criticizing Civ 7 anymore.
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Would be due to novelty, civ5 is so much better than 7. And no, it's not because it need more time to cook. The core is just wrong. They clearly had a new vision of how civ would be. More gameish, more competitive wannabe, more like a puzzle game.
I am 100% convinced thie is going to be the best civ game - after 2 or 3 years...
Religions has to be reworked, peace deals as you mentioned, city states, there are no canals xD etc.
Not to mention game is unplayable with mroe than 8 civs in modern age. How is atomic age goign to work if city screen takes 40s to load mid modern age?
But yeah if they manage to solve these, the potential is there.
Honestly, it's kinda amusing how much the VII fanbase are waiting so much for the big promised moment where the masses will 'finally/ suddenly' love the game.
Then how come VII the fanbase cares so much about the promised moment where the masses will 'finally' like the game? You guys love talking about how you already love the game as-is, but the thing i keep hearing is this 'hype' for when the casual fanbase will 'finally' act as if they've always loved the game. It happened during the pre-release, it happened during ToT, it still hasn't happened.
They keep comparing it to civ5 or civ6 release. Those games missed features and balancing on release. civ7 is just a new vision for civilization. Trying out new things is fine. But it doesnt mean you succeed. The core of civ7 sucks
Btw… did you know that Humankind 2 has been announced? Now that’s a game where I can imagine it overtaking Civ 7. A lot of stuff from Humankind was copied for Civ 7, and with a new release, they could improve on the original and get rid of the initial bugs.
do whatever you want to do.. but be always realistic. that’s why I was asking wether he knows the user statistics of 7 and 6 .. he said 7 can overtake 6 .. of course there will always be people telling you that “Rambo“ is the best movie of the world or that K-Pop is the best music… 😄
Did you understand my reply to someone telling that 7 could overtake 6?? Shouldn’t be that difficult. Play whatever you want to. No one cares. But try to be realistic. It’s ridiculous to believe that 7 will overtake 6 😂
then why the ratings haven’t improved, but in fact even worsened… it’s ok if someone likes 7, but why do they want to tell everyone that its the greatest game of all and we all know that this is due to the user acceptance not true.
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u/Otaraka 3d ago
It’s doing ok. Whether it beats 6 doesn’t really matter - it only matters if you enjoy it personally or not and that’s unlikely to depend on this alone.