Civilization 8 could be a proper early access game - "never say never", comment Firaxis (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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[-] absquatulate@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

One of the major changes with Civilization VI was that Firaxis had access to lot more player telemetry, compared to Civilisation V, rather than monitoring the feedback on Reddit and fansites like CivFanatics. Amongst other things, they discovered that most players don’t finish a single game, which is part of the reason for Civ 7’s more broken-up, modular historical progression.

So they used all that user data to change the future game to appeal to the lowest common denominator, as it were. And it resulted in the most controversial civ of recent years. And their plan for the future? Continue like this, of course - only now they're considering formalizing this approach with an official EA label. God I hate the gaming landscape these days

[-] Hominine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Chipotle's solution for customers no longer coming in the door is to raise prices yet again. Corporations need a reckoning.

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