My prediction is that people will overhype it with lots of hopes for super complex systems, call it shit when it has fewer mechanics and civs than 3/4/5/6 with all their DLC, and then eventually decide it's good after a couple years of DLC and patches.

You know, the usual Civ cycle. I'll probably buy it day 1 assuming it isn't actually broken, per usual, and dump a couple hundred hours in it, per usual.

So the trailer shows nothing

Between 4, 5 and 6, I don't even know if I want another Civ game. I usually just play 4, despite having 1-6. 4 is like the peak of the series.

Also Civ VI is currently 95% off on Steam if that's helpful to anyone.

One mechanic I'd love to see added to Civ is disease. It's had huge significance throughout history and would be another fun layer to the game.

For example, if you settled near a swamp there would randomly be disease outbreaks. When you encounter a new civ your diseases would have a chance to infect each other's units, and you would spread it to your Civ if you brought them back.

Military units who are fortified in certain terrain would slowly lose health as they suffer from things, and you could have civilian units that can undo disease damage. Hell, you could purposely send infected units to an uncontacted civs and decimate their populations.

To fight this they could add a hospital district, new great people, and new technologies.

I paid 20USD for CIV6 for Android when it first came out. I really enjoyed it until I got on my first flight.

After switching to Spotify and back to the game, it turned off my game and won't let me play anymore.

I ended up hacking it and now I can play it offline.

They better not make the same mistake twice.

I just hope (foolishly) that with the current hype that it's AI will be a focus. I hate that because it cheats things that would work on me don't work on the AI etc.

It would be really cool if they made an API for the game so people could build their own AI

you will need to wait until they release $200 worth of expansion packs to know that this will be any good

Civ 6 was good value for $6.

I played Civilization for years. When Civ 5 came out, I was incredibly psyched. I specifically went to PAX one year just so I could get new information on the game. When I finally played it, it was the biggest disappointment of my gaming life. It just doesn't feel like any of the previous ones. Civ 6 is way better in almost every way.

I'm wary of Civ 7 though. How can they improve upon the game without adding minigames or breaking it into insane amounts of DLC eg. Stellaris? I probably won't pick it up until it's on a steam sale with all its DLC at 50% off or something stupid.

I'm still enjoying 5. I don't think I need another civ game in happy with what I got.

Yeah I played VI and after one game went back to V.