not gonna lie, it's delicious seeing it "mostly negative"

[nowhere man]

Humanity might be worth saving in the end. Or better saying, might be able to save it from itself.

I would simply love if firaxis would partner up with a decent and more pro-consumer publisher. This way, they wouldnt belong in the hall of infamy of gaming. Everybody knows and likes Civ a lot since the early 90's, but 2k seriously needs to go away. And yes, this fiasco screams 2k way before Firaxis.

[zRoxas]

Ui gets fixed, Rip 90% of negative reviews

[Aluminum Elite Master]

Originally posted by zRoxas:

Ui gets fixed, Rip 90% of negative reviews

UI is what is getting noticed the most, but there *are* other things I am seeing. A lot of comments about map size, lack of some options, lack of some fairly basic leaders/civs (No Gandhi I've seen commented a few times, no England, among others).

Fixing the UI will definitely get the review average up, but it's also not by any means the only complaint coming up in the first few hours.

[Mountain Man]

I honestly don't know why people are so down on the game. It plays very similarly to every other Civ game and has some cool new features and twists. I'm enjoying it.

[Martin]

Honestly don't have issue with ui really, it's more the lack of workers/builders the way combat works etc.. the ai is WAAAY ahead of me.. and i have no idea why..

[Sorden]

lol, predictable review bombing. Same with every Paradox release, Diablo, etc. Happens every time and means nothing to me, nor I bet to the devs as they see it happen to every big game anyway.

[Thane_Ragnar]

The real Reviews start at 2+ hours anyway, and with this Filter it sits at mostly positive already. So, Wayne ...

[nowhere man]

Originally posted by zRoxas:

Ui gets fixed, Rip 90% of negative reviews

I dont doubt the game on the long run will score high, that's because civilization is a good franchise. The clusterfook is just about the bad publisher whiplashing their slaves to rush it in a poor state and cash in as early as possible, even if this time it is below the "minimum viable product" quality standard.

[ArmaLite]

Originally posted by nowhere man:

Originally posted by zRoxas:

Ui gets fixed, Rip 90% of negative reviews

I dont doubt the game on the long run will score high, that's because civilization is a good franchise. The clusterfook is just about the bad publisher whiplashing their slaves to rush it in a poor state and cash in as early as possible, even if this time it is below the "minimum viable product" quality standard.

Unless massive chargebacks start occurring. Thinking that most who have refunded did so to steam wallet for other purchases.

[nowhere man]

Originally posted by Mountain Man:

I honestly don't know why people are so down on the game. It plays very similarly to every other Civ game and has some cool new features and twists. I'm enjoying it.

I don´t see too many people roasting the game per se, but the poor state of the release the publisher forced it to be releasead upon.

[Gigantoad]

Originally posted by nowhere man:

Originally posted by zRoxas:

Ui gets fixed, Rip 90% of negative reviews

I dont doubt the game on the long run will score high, that's because civilization is a good franchise. The clusterfook is just about the bad publisher whiplashing their slaves to rush it in a poor state and cash in as early as possible, even if this time it is below the "minimum viable product" quality standard.

It's been 9 years since the last game. I really don't think we can talk about anything being rushed here.

[nowhere man]

Originally posted by Sorden:

lol, predictable review bombing. Same with every Paradox release, Diablo, etc. Happens every time and means nothing to me, nor I bet to the devs as they see it happen to every big game anyway.

Highly doubtful.

[nowhere man]

Originally posted by Gigantoad:

Originally posted by nowhere man:

I dont doubt the game on the long run will score high, that's because civilization is a good franchise. The clusterfook is just about the bad publisher whiplashing their slaves to rush it in a poor state and cash in as early as possible, even if this time it is below the "minimum viable product" quality standard.

It's been 9 years since the last game. I really don't think we can talk about anything being rushed here.

You gotta read the reviews and find the common patterns on the negative ones. It not that this game began to be developed 9 years ago.

[nowhere man]

Originally posted by Lee:

Just go to every game discussion section and you will see similar complains about new games. Some of the people who complain does not even own the game or one in a franchise.

That's called being smart and feeling they made the right decision. The score speaks by itself, not matter how you try slicing it.

[Das_Daw]

Originally posted by Aluminum Elite Master:

Originally posted by zRoxas:

Ui gets fixed, Rip 90% of negative reviews

UI is what is getting noticed the most, but there *are* other things I am seeing. A lot of comments about map size, lack of some options, lack of some fairly basic leaders/civs (No Gandhi I've seen commented a few times, no England, among others).

Fixing the UI will definitely get the review average up, but it's also not by any means the only complaint coming up in the first few hours.

Yeah but those are all things that were public knowledge before launch. I cannot comprehend how people pay ~100$ for an AA to a video game and then complain about things that were virtually in every review. Yesterday people complained that streamers got to play one day earlier than the AA users -> however this just implies that Firaxis wasn't trying to hide anything, because you could see all the leaders and launch nations, the UI design, etc. yesterday (or in press reviews before). If people have their issues with that it is fine, but no one should hate because of those points.
Imho valid concerns are being raised by people who have performance or connction issues. Especially the latter is problematic, because if they force a 2K account connection, it just hast to work on launch day

[Silverlight]

Just threw a positive review down with my 2 cents. They reverted a lot of things about 6 I didn't like and retained some things from 5 I did.

I think , overall, this is a much stronger Civ game than 6 was.