Don't get your hopes too high

[Tyraelmx]

We'll have to wait way beyond actual release anyways for them to add all the dlc to give us back features that were scratched for this exact purpose.

Was like that with 4,5 and 6, will be the same for this one.

Civ 7 will be great but will have a big lack of features until the dlc wave begins. Mark my words.

[Infernal_elf]

Yeah dont preorder!! Take 2 interactive released KSP2 Recently and that was a total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[hannibal_pjv]

My prediction is 7 dlc to make civ7….

[olElLI]

I can't believe I have owned civ VI on three platforms, on PC since launch in 2016, and just finished my first Victory, domination as Alexander tonight, on emperor.

lol

Suffice it to say, unless the base Civ VII is absolutely revolutionary, I think I will wait for a package deal.

[Uther]

I am not optimistic about any large dev company anymore.

It's all the same trash and cash grab; now with less features that stay broken!

I'd love to be pleasantly surprised though... but then I woke up it and it was just a dream.

[Marshall of the Templars]

Civ VI Complete isn't even as great as Civ V Complete.

The diminishing returns for each new installment isn't exactly encouraging.

[morrisseyshair]

I bought Civilization V from a Humble Bundle with a bunch of DLC. I redeemed it all but on the game's store page it showed one DLC as if I didn't own it even though I did. I did some research and I found out that one DLC from the Humble Bundle had been split in two so it could be sold as an additional DLC on Steam. That was really scummy.

[Eightygrit]

Yeah 100 percent. It'll be damn near 2027 by the time this thing is actually DONE done.

[ingosupercute]

I see I'm too slow to make my own topic about this but OP is absolutely correct. Not a single Civ game after III was in an acceptable state for release:

IV had two major gameplay overhauls with two deperate CD-Rom packages.

V introduced so many Civs later on, you'd be shocked to see the initial lineup

Beyond Earth was flawed for almost a year due to critical gameplay oversighs. The first expansion fixed them but it was too late to save the game.

VI first had the overly aggressive AI, then the overly passive one. And again most nations were introduces later on. Plus many of the new features that seem logical additions were so unfun you have to wonder why they couldn't have done it in a different way.

Originally posted by olElLI:

I can't believe I have owned civ VI on three platforms, on PC since launch in 2016, and just finished my first Victory, domination as Alexander tonight, on emperor.

lol :D:

Suffice it to say, unless the base Civ VII is absolutely revolutionary, I think I will wait for a package deal.

And I can't believe that for the last 8 years I spent more time playing Civ V than before the release of VI

[Erik Taurus]

Originally posted by Uther:

I am not optimistic about any large dev company anymore.

It's all the same trash and cash grab; now with less features that stay broken!

Same here, it took them eight years to complete CIV VI and compared to CIV V which didn't add up to CIV IV unless you purchased all DLC (or rather game extensions) CIV VI didn't add much for game play or any other aspect.

Originally posted by Eightygrit:

Yeah 100 percent. It'll be damn near 2027 by the time this thing is actually DONE done.

In 2027 CIV VII wouldn't be near completion (see above)