Comment on Why Civilization VII is the way it is, and how its devs plan to win critics back
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
we didn’t realize quite how strongly players identified with the idea of, ‘I need to take some people and grow them and have that specific civilization cultural set be what’s growing to face the challenges of world history,’
That’s the core idea since Civ started and they don’t get that that’s what people like? That explains a lot.
Instead of what they’ve been doing I’d love to see them release a fantasy Civ like Warlock 2.
Malgas@beehaw.org 1 week ago
The fact that they’re still referring to obvious missteps as “great new mechanics” doesn’t fill me with much confidence.
That they are naming this update after another widely-panned Civ game is icing on the cake. (This may admittedly be unintentional, as it is also a reference to the tagline of the original game, but it still reads as tone deaf to me.)