How comes Civ V has more online players than Civ VI?

[Wrymn]

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[Farre]

Opprinnelig skrevet av SamBC:

Not sure how much it's "going back" and how much it's just not as many people playing Civ6 as they did on launch, as usual for new titles. There's definitely some of both, but it's hard to work out the balance.

Wish I had taken some screenshots, but if my memory serves me right there were considerable less Civ 5 players just 2 months ago. At the time Civilization 6 was like 3rd most played game on steam. Someone with steamspy account can check the exact numbers. Right now 45,653 is playing Civ 5 and 40,009 is playing Civ 6. Of course some people have just bought Civ 5 and that way bringing player base up, but I feel like many hardcore gamers took a U-turn.

[joshuar56]

I personally like Civ V game play more than VI.

[Dennis[DK]]

Civ V now outpace Civ VI

I haven't bought Civ VI yet (in spite of being a huge Civ fan), and wouldn't probably ever do it. Not only because of the cartoony graphics (I actually think that I could live with it). But what I can't live with, are the huge amount of bugs and such, people are writing about. And since there are a lot of people complaining about it, and in a serious and non-whining way, I assume that there is something about it.

But back to my point with this post:
I just checked the Steam stats, where you can see the top 100 games on Steam right now. And yes, Civ VI are in the top 100. But, here is the interesting thing: The number of current players, at this moment, now says:
45,381 Sid Meier's Civilization V
38,484 Sid Meier's Civilization VI

I've tracked the numbers for some time. And this is the first time, where Civ V actually outpace Civ VI!
That's pretty bad! I don't think it's normal for a predecessor to outpace the latest release of a game.

[SamBC]

I don't think you were paying that close attention if you think this is the first point where Civ5's had more players online than Civ6. For example, here's a thread discussing that point in detail, that started over a week ago, and has much discussion on both 'sides', which would have been found quite easily by searching the forum.

[Stanley]

Opprinnelig skrevet av adjuvant:

Civ 6 is in the same state Civ 5 was at release. The AI needs work, some things are unbalanced, there are still a couple bugs. Civ 5 has had years to refine. I don't think the comparison and argument is entirely off base.

Having the same problems that they allready fixed on civ v is mind boggling.