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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Civ VII: OMG they're selling horse armor
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:48:44 -0500
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:17:42 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote: 

>On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:55:58 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
>
>>On 19/03/2025 18:52, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>> ...I'm beginning to think I'll stick with IV, V and VI.
>>> You're not the only one.
>>> 
>>> Apparently fewer people are playing "Civilization VII" than are
>>> playing "Civilization 5" right now (and it's about half of those
>>> playing "Civilization VI").* It's not a good sign when a game released
>>> one month ago is being trounced by a game released a decade-and-a-half
>>> earlier.** And the publisher's intent to push monetizations hasn't
>>> made users any happier.
>>
>>You have to be a special kinda dev. to muck up the release of a Civ game.
>
>The problem is, I think, that "Civilization" is essentially, mature
>software. Not the 4X genre, but the style of 4X that the
>"Civilization" games offer. Sure, you can upscale the visuals a bit
>but the formula is solved. If you muck around with it too much, then
>it stops being a Civilization game, but if you don't much around with
>it, then you give people no reason buy your newer version.
>
>There are still a lot of things you can do with the 4X genre, but 
>if you try to wedge those ideas into the Civilization framework,
>you're going to have problems. This is an issue the franchise has had
>since its inception, and its been struggling with it with every
>iteration. Sometimes they manage to make it work, but it's added
>overhead to every release.
>
Just discovered I have Civ 1 for Windows 3.11 and it works perfectly in
DosBox!

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Zag

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