Humankind has more positive Steam user reviews than Civ VII

[ParabolaWaVe]

Oh, the irony.

Humankind: 67% positive overall
Civilization VII: 48% positive overall

[Psychosis]

humankind = trash

[Rhapsody]

Expectations must be managed.

[Andarc]

the first 2 posts can both be true

[magnumaniac]

Beyond Earth has a better review score than Civ 7 - let that sink in. That is how bad this pile of the proverbial really is.

[jorgen_cab]

A game with a review score of around 50% on steam are generally considered a bad game, that is just a fact.

Currently there are about 4k less players on average playing Civ7 than is playing Civ5 and the amount of players playing Civ7 are still falling every week.

I would not be surprised if the amount of daily players playing Civ7 would be closer to Civ4 in a month and then sort of stay there, this would be a huge failure and why should they create any new content for it at that stage, they are not likely to get allot of players back since most likely the reason players stop playing are they got bored of it, not because of bugs and bad UI which is not so bad you can live with them currently.

[ParabolaWaVe]

Many people refused to believe that Civ VII was truly going to abandon the formula of the previous games. They thought it was too stupid a move to be true, and preordered the game anyway. After the disappoinment, comes the bad review. That explains the score. On the other hand, I think there's a not insignificant amount of players on the fence, watching from afar how it evolves. The score could be even worse if we consider the amount of people interested in the game, but who feel they can't buy it and play it yet.

One advantage of the previous, incremental way to do things was, if players get angry after release, we can backtrack, and correct course later on. But with this "revolution" they made against their own property, they can't do that any longer. They shifted from one game to another, so what fans don't like about the new release is pretty much unfixable.

[Grinch]

Originally posted by Psychosis:

humankind = trash

i agree, and humankind 2? (this game)

[ParabolaWaVe]

Originally posted by Grinch:

Originally posted by Psychosis:

humankind = trash

i agree, and humankind 2? (this game)

Perhaps... but the only hope of Firaxis at this point, is to successfully convince the Civ playerbase that Humankind is superior to Civ, so that this would be the way to go for the franchise in the future, and making Civ VII the way it is would've been the correct choice.

[ParabolaWaVe]

In some ways Humankind IS superior to Civ now... many of the controversial new features seem, at least on paper, actually better on that game than in this one. For example, Humankind doesn't force the player to change to another civilization; but Civ does, and that's a very common complain in forums.

[Rhapsody]

Originally posted by ParabolaWaVe:

Many people refused to believe that Civ VII was truly going to abandon the formula of the previous games.

I mean... it hasn't. Weird thing to believe in.

[ParabolaWaVe]

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

Originally posted by ParabolaWaVe:

Many people refused to believe that Civ VII was truly going to abandon the formula of the previous games.

I mean... it hasn't. Weird thing to believe in.

And that's why the review scores and the player count are so extremely high, I guess.

[Rhapsody]

They simply did the 33/33/33 thing again. That is literally the same formula they have been following for... well, quite some time, I'm not actually sure how long.

[ParabolaWaVe]

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

They simply did the 33/33/33 thing again. That is literally the same formula they have been following for... well, quite some time, I'm not actually sure how long.

That's only PR. Nobody truly believes that, specially for this game. Its just like the other blatant lie, that they came up with the civ change idea on their own, not from the Amplitude games.

They can pretty much say whatever they want. But that doesn't mean that everything they say is true.

[Rhapsody]

Well in this case it is true, maybe less so in previous ones. One third new, one third changed, one third retained... kinda hard to see that apply to any Civ since maybe II and III more than VII.

[jorgen_cab]

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

They simply did the 33/33/33 thing again. That is literally the same formula they have been following for... well, quite some time, I'm not actually sure how long.

This is what they say but have no reality to it.. these are just made up numbers to make it sound nice.