I don't like YD's hostility but he's right. CivWorld is stupid, but I've been keeping up with the news about it and I don't think they ever marketed it as terribly much more than a civilization-themed F2P timewaster.
I agree. YD is way over the top with hostility but everyone else in the thread is way over the top with melo drama. "The state of the industry" and all that shit is laughable. You guys sound like old men from every generation lamenting the fact that it was better in their day. Seriously. Are any of you over 30? Why is every one in such a rush to pronounce PC gaming dead?
Why yes, I am over 30. The problem with these shitty little games is that they set a very low bar for other game makers. One company does something and others follow. You end up with a generation of terrible games being pumped out. An entire generation of kids and young adults think it's the best thing since crustless bread (why does that even exist?!), because they don't know any differently, and then they go into game design and make/influence more of the same.
Look at the bright side, maybe it will give him the money to make Alpha Centuri 2 or MOO 4 or what ever.
Nope. Sid used the Civ IV money to make Railroads! and Revolution, which were dumbed down piles of crap. Both could have been good games. They are not.
What are you talking about? Have you really just found out about casual games? Have you been sleeping under a rock? I can bet CivWorld hasn't even been made by the same team that makes the AAA version of Civ. It's probably some new group within Firaxis.
You really seem to have trouble getting the difference between a game that has a development cost measured in thousand dollars and is made to be playing for 10 minutes per day, and an AAA title that costs millions. There is really no difference between CivWorld and any other browser game. It's just that, a browser game.
Crappy games have been made since the beginning, I really don't see what changed since CivWorld came out.
It's also pretty evident that this game has been made for a different crowd, i.e. facebook gamers. Criticising it because it is not Civ6 is like saying the Mercedes Smart is dumb only because you live in some small shithole and it's not made for you. Newsflash, not everything is made directly for you. I bet so many facebook gamers think Civ is so dumb because it's so complicated. What makes their opinion worth less than yours?