Civilization 6 officially more popular than Civ 7!

[Omega Sirius]

As of the timing of this post, the current player count is...
Civ 7: 31k
Civ 6: 34k

[colostmy4]

Civ 7 is new and hasn't had the amount of time to grow like Civ 6 has.

[Evrach]

And is expansive while everyone can get civ 6 for a bunch of $.
Did you know that civ 5 remained more played that civ 6 during almost two years ?

[Wormerine]

That's normal. In fact, I am surprised the gap is so small. If I remember well, Civ5 also hold up very well long into Civ6 live-cycle. It will be even more true now, due to Civ7 pricing and questionable lunch (UI complaints were enough to dissipate any interest I had at the moment).

And frankly, it is good time to finally play more of Civ6 - I kinda waiting for both expansions to be out to play more of it, but I never got around to it. I think I will make it a more regular part of my gaming diet and wait for Civ7 to get patched up.

On a flip side, I hear Civ7 multiplayer works well, which is great, as I found Civ6 to be a frustrating experience.

[Dr.Acula]

Originally posted by Wormerine:

That's normal. In fact, I am surprised the gap is so small. If I remember well, Civ5 also hold up very well long into Civ6 live-cycle.

Actually Civ 6 had considerably higher player numbers compared to Civ 5 for the first month of its release. Only after the first month did it drop below the numbers of Civ 5 but not considerably. It had pretty stable numbers between 10k and 20k players for several months.

Civ 7 (almost) dropping below Civ 6 daily peaks within less than a week of its release is a sad state of affairs for Civ 7.

[Rochi]

I mean the Civ 7 discussion boards are completely locked down. Its a shell of a game compared to Civ 6. Honestly I give Civ 7 props, because of how its been received in my friend group we actually set up a civ 6 game for this coming weekend, been a few years since we all got together to play a long ass civ game. Long live Civ 6

[SithMagic]

The gap is even wider now. Civilization VII is a mediocre to below average game.

[Shroomy]

I was gonna write a thread about that too. It shows how idols can rise and fall <-- especially in that case.
They can dev CIV VIII right now because the game mecanics are too broken to be rebuilt from scratch in order to make this a better game, a bit like Starfield.

[Grimarr]

I'll eventually get 7, just waiting on more content and a sale. They really need to buff the AIs to make a 'new' game. I dont understand why that is so hard. AI should be able to optimize better without just resorting to cheats.

[SlasH]

Much more interesting is the player peak after release, 84,558 for CIV VII compared to 162,657 CIV VI almost double amount of players.
https://steamdb.info/app/289070/charts/#max
https://steamdb.info/app/1295660/charts/#max

[Marshal]

I still prefer Civ 7 so far.

[andrea_r]

I got 7. Founders edition. Do yourself a favour. Do not buy It. It's sort of a bad pprt of civ to smartphones. Really disappointing. Wait for some months to see if they tune It, otherwise, it's really a bad game.

[Evrach]

Originally posted by andrea_r:

I got 7. Founders edition. Do yourself a favour. Do not buy It. It's sort of a bad pprt of civ to smartphones. Really disappointing. Wait for some months to see if they tune It, otherwise, it's really a bad game.

People said the same thing about 6 at release. Cartoon graphics, shiny colors, game of smartphones... eternal cycle of video game life ^^
7 is a good game. Sure, there's room for improvement (like any civ game at release), but the core gameplay is really fun and solid. Played a dozen games so far and still a lot of fun :)

[crzyfsh123]

Just needs about a zillion dlc's and mods t oflesh it out.

[Omega Sirius]

Originally posted by crzyfsh123:

Just needs about a zillion dlc's and mods t oflesh it out.

Ahhh yes! Heavily relying on mods or DLC to make a game "good." This just another way of bandaging a bad game. A good game doesn't need DLC or mods to make it good.

[Dr.Acula]

Originally posted by Omega Sirius:

Originally posted by crzyfsh123:

Just needs about a zillion dlc's and mods t oflesh it out.

Ahhh yes! Heavily relying on mods or DLC to make a game "good." This just another way of bandaging a bad game. A good game doesn't need DLC or mods to make it good.

Indeed. A good game is good in its basic release version but can still be improved through mods and additional content.

Rimworld for example is an excellent game on its own. It was expanded in sensible ways through the DLCs and modding made that game insanely awesome.