The ultra premium all inclusive version with 7 days "early access" (paying extra to play a single player game early LMAO) is $130 and people who were grifted into buying it are not happy.
The largest map size in the game at launch is "normal."
Continent generation is broken beyond belief.
The UI was designed for console babbies and a complete mess on PC.
For a 4x strategy game there is very little info in game on how things work.
Maximum 5 human players for multiplayer.
All fixable problems tbh and I'm sure when I buy it in two years for 75% off it will be a very good game. People who spent $130 to beta test are getting exactly what they deserve.
What's funniest to me is there are very few complaints about the game itself. By all accounts it's a very fun civ game and a worthy successor to civ vi.
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Frick me that's bad, not even alpha phase
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https://old.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/1ij1clt/you_can_hear_a_person_coughing_and_typing_on_a/
Lmfao
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WTF is that world generation?
Is that actually, factually, empirically true?
(Also, games on PC getting console UI and controls is an actual crime)
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"I wish a company like Valve would make a handheld device that would let me play my PC library anywhere!"
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This isn't valve, this is corpo rot. The same reason we have harriet tubman.
Some r-slur said "Harriet tubman was cool, and black! Wouldn't that be fun?" "Also we can expand the to console we can sell more"
Everyone who disagrees gets fired for being mean/racist/whatever especially if it's some foid marketing that had no interest in playing the game whatsoever.
Hopefully corpo r-slurs get flayed and we get chud Andrew Jackson with a special whip unit.
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Corpo rot facilitated in part by Valve. I'm saying the Steam Deck helped bridge the gap between keyboard+mouse gaming and controller gaming, and made it far easier for companies to justify designing for both.
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I'm saying your r-slurred and I'm going to god darn fight you I fricking love my switcherino and deckerino
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bring it on b-word all you ever do is wave your hand and say "HeCkO i Am BiMoThY"
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Companies did this because the console market is so huge that it can't be neglected, modern game budgets are massively bloated, and modern dev cowtools let you target all those platforms without needing to maintain entirely separate and incompatible codebases. If you're already including controller support for consolestrags, it's trivial to have it for PCstrags too. The Deck is a drop in the bucket compared to the PS5.
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I hate gaming at my desk honestly. I either want to play in VR or lie back on my couch.
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So true. I tried playing Darkest Dungeon 2 with a controller, but it sucked so bad. Luckily, games can like that can be played lying down on the couch with the keyboard on the coffee table.
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I'll play games like that on my laptop. My gaming PC is mostly a headless system for my VR headset or my MacBook. Civ is actually fantastic on iPad though, it fits the format really well.
The only game I've played recently that I felt needed a mouse and keyboard is BG3.
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The Deck rules because it actually includes ways to use proper PC controls in a console form factor. I can play isometric RPGs and strategy games with the touchpads, I've tried on the handhelds that lack them and it's a bad time.
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Yes, those are typical examples of world gen. The rumor is navigable rivers caused all sorts of problems in the world gen and they only really work when continents are rectangularish.
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It looks like fictional world maps that I drew when I was 7.
Down to the weird island spacing. Looks so shit.
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How are they still struggling with navigable rivers in 2025???
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It's technology we mastered literally thousands of years ago
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Even the "let's pretend a river is just a very narrow ocean" kludge seems to be quite rare.
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Lmao I actually took those screenshots and posted the reddit thread about map generation, it's hilariously bad. There's a developer console you can use to reveal everything at the start of the game.
I spent 45 minutes testing map types and was so disgusted I refunded the game immediately afterwards. Suck my peepee Firaxis.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/1ij1clt/you_can_hear_a_person_coughing_and_typing_on_a/
Lol
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i really thought harriet tubman as a leader was going to put this one over the top
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Shit looks so bad they managed to distract people from president Tubman
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If this was earlier Civs it would be funny at least.
Tubman of the Zulu
"We wuz queenz n shit"
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This is unironically part of the reason we can't get good strategy and simulation games anymore. Everything has to be limited so you can use an Xbox controller to play it
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Just keep playing rim world or songs of styx.
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Your tax dollars at work
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I actually prefer the in game model to this coom-fiction, she has a bigger nose there. !schnozzenjoyers.
And she would be hotter if not for the shit voice acting.
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Post schnozz
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You first.
Schnozz for a schnizz.
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Schnozz DM'd, awaiting schnizz
BTW. it was taken on the same morning before we were "perma" banned for testing the merriage system with my concubines
@mithrandir 
@Wolverine and 
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Don't question my ethnicity
@DWIGHT___________DYNAMITE made the cutout
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Who are you supposed to be,
@BWC?
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G*mers are cattle so expect to see discussion over this games inevitable "redemption arc" in a few years
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Why did they release it in such a poor state
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They heard me talking about maybe buying 7 so I stop playing 5.
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Why would I purchase a new Civ when they already achieved perfection with Civ5?
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Couldn't be me
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inb4 we have Trump as a leader option
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They cant have larger maps because they like only have ten Civs, theyll need to sell more before its justifiable
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So there's still a chance for the george floyd civ leader
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"Future Tech" replaced by NigaLink Updates
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George Floyd cyborg
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I never really understood the appeal of the Civ franchise. It always came off way too gamey to me and not really all that larpy. What's the point of being the germans if you can't form prussia or do a holocaust?
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Civ is HOI for people with dyslexia and/or ADHD.
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civ hasnt been good since 3 or 4, also civ 5 defenders are baby brained r-slurs
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Just 🤣
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Snapshots:
https://old.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/1iiy647/steam_reviews_day_1/:
undelete.pullpush.io
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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