Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:17:48 +0000 From: Rin Stowleigh Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Civ7 Is looking iffy... Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:17:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.0/32.1071 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 9 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-tTeMoJ0QquL/wOgjwwRTj+doU4v2b0nCLM++3es72ej+T3dseDLzGqgiF6J/2xO0rZ35cJnuDTi5nvT!WoN3YS/OuoOfIHoIlPxQGPUZusGNLYqlw3R4Lni8yr4rFlk0Y762HxaErtd7FuAdNuGT X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 1412 I got a similar impression, as if the gameplay changes were the result of sitting in a room and saying "ok, we have to do something different.. what can we do to take it in a different direction". But that new direction isn't necessarily aligned with what made Civ popular to begin with. Maybe I'll like it more once I play it but I'm certainly in no rush.