Civ VI only has 3,000 less players than CIV VII....

[poke_ravi]

At the time of this post. That is sad and a testament to the monumental failure of this game.

[Flash]

Beyond Earth - Different gameplay ... nice glossy graphics.. Aliens.. so sure Ill play if I feel like it

Civ 6 - Nice game. My favourite even if it came with some rubbish elements in it

Civ 7 - Newest game. Much better graphics. There are some features I love in this. Cant go back to Civ 6 since i like playing latest games and cant go back to the weaker graphic Civ 6.... which pis**s me off even more since I hate Civ 7 boring XD. I wish I was more objective/achievement oriented player since their so enthusiastic while im so much a casual player

For me Civ is a game series where I never go back to older titles so Civ 7 it is. 4x strategy games are long winded games so most always tend to latest versions :)

[Dr.Acula]

The Doctor の投稿を引用：

Beyond Earth? it was an offshoot game and it actually GOT an expansion, something we were told by the angry folks that we would never get BECAUSE it was "an offshoot game and so don't expct any expansions." Yes, I was there and I read all those doom and gloom predictions. This is not an offshoot but a new entry in the franchise.

I don't see much chance of the user reviews improving very much this year for sure but we're going to start seeing a constant stream of content coming out starting next month which BE never got. Like it or not, this may very well start drawing more folks back in regularly to play with the new content.

And? The "doom and gloom" posts were right. BE was a disaster launch and an overall failure of a Civ game. I have BE and I played it. It's my least played Civ game. I hated it. Btw. I recently tried it again because I basically had forgotten almost everything about that game. I still hated BE and within about an hour quit and uninstalled the game.

The fact that it got an expansion at all is a surprise but my guess would be that they wanted to see if the game could somewhat recover from the disaster they had with it. And it didn't recover. Look at the Rising Tide Steam page. It has 580 reviews. No one really bought that expansion because the big majority of the players already had lost interest in BE and moved on.

And btw. the amount of backlash Civ 7 is getting is similar to what BE got but for different reasons. Still it is because the game has massive problems and terrible design decisions.

[Fleetwood]

olarnser の投稿を引用：

Or put another way after just a week of full release VII already has many more players than VI which has been in play 7 years

Except that's incorrect. Civ VI consistently has a bigger daily concurrent player count. They peak at different times of the day, but VII's peak is never higher than VI's peak.

/trolling (because that's how that one guy refers to posters who state UNEQUIVOCAL FACTS that don't align with his PERSONAL OPINIONS)

[Astasia]

Beyond Earth is objectively one of the best 4x games. People "hated" it because it wasn't Civ and wasn't Alpha Centauri 2. If it didn't have "Civilization" in the name and was made by any other company, the game would have reviewed much better. That was a spin-off though, people should have expected it to be different and be it's own thing. Civ 7 is suffering from the same thing, except it's not a spin-off, it's not like the rest of the series so people hate it. If looked at objectively as its own standalone game, it's probably pretty decent, minus the UI issues and lack of content. If Firaxis/2k would stop abusing the brand and just made standalone games that were standalone, reception would be a lot better. Instead they set themselves up for direct comparisons and create expectations to deliver something specific, just through their branding.

People are going to sit here and compare player numbers and content to Civ 6 constantly because this game is called Civ 7. They expected something linearly better in every way, but got something extremely different.

[Jean-Maurice Nya]

Beyond Earth is good, but it lacks soul unlike Alpha Centauri. Leaders felt a lot less part of the world. I think the problem comes from voice acting mainly. It's not as immersive.
Like to me the best Civ entry remains Civ2 (even though I find the 4 more solid on game mechanics) mainly because it has actors for your council and videos with chilling soundtrack for wonders. I never felt as immersed in a strategy game than with Civ2 (and Starcraft). Connecting the game with reality was basically the best game design for a game that ambitious. And since the 2 I've been waiting for a council and some videos of our world's wonders, not some cheap animation. Immersion is crucial even in a strategy game and Civ2 did the job better overall.

[BLaCKoNi666]

Civ 6 currently has over 10k more players than Civ 7. Civ 7 is so bad, when a friend gifted me a copy, I rejected it and asked them why they hate me...

[Fleetwood]

BLaCKoNi666 の投稿を引用：

Civ 6 currently has over 10k more players than Civ 7. Civ 7 is so bad, when a friend gifted me a copy, I rejected it and asked them why they hate me...

15,650 to be exact.

/"trolling"

[Rune]

C6 - 43K in-game
C7 - 28K in-game

53% more people playing 6 than 7. And the gap is growing as people seem to be abandoning 7.

Over the weekend 7 peaked at 54-55K and 6 peaked at 60K-61K

Civilization VI is actually growing.
Civilization VII was already shrinking after the first week of official release.

[Sesikee]

Rune の投稿を引用：

C6 - 43K in-game
C7 - 28K in-game

53% more people playing 6 than 7. And the gap is growing as people seem to be abandoning 7.

Over the weekend 7 peaked at 54-55K and 6 peaked at 60K-61K

Civilization VI is actually growing.
Civilization VII was already shrinking after the first week of official release.

Confirmed, civ 7 is a disaster. Not even the launch of Civ 6 back then was as this bad and we thought that was bad at the time. LOL

[JUMP'NSHOOTMAN]

I better hurry up and get worried about the playerbase in a game that I largely play solo or with friends...

I'm not going back to VI. VII is where it is at now.

[dcbobo]

civ 6 went from around 162000 to 66000 in 11 days for a loss for a 60%

civ 7 went from around 84000 to 54000 in 9 days for a loss of around 36%

[PhalseDemeise]

dcbobo の投稿を引用：

civ 6 went from around 162000 to 66000 in 11 days for a loss for a 60%

civ 7 went from around 84000 to 54000 in 9 days for a loss of around 36%

7 also had a staggered release, you are not going to see that dramatic shift.

[talerran]

As of now, 2/24/2025 at 1400 hrs EST. Civ 7 as 35,999 players and Civ 6 has 37,500. What is really telling is that the highest number is Civ 7 at 84k and Civ 6 has 162k. You say all the Civ games started that way but I say that Firaxis went too radical with Civ 7.

[Santa Klaus]

Lol@ people desperately trying to argue that Civ7's opening performance doesn't matter or is no different from previous titles.

[Esau]

In another month when Civ VI has double VII's numbers, glazers will still insist this is normal and that it's totally okay that it's not being played by the Civ community. They will insist everything is fine even when the numbers dip below 10,000.