Literally every time. The game is hated on launch and then goes on to become beloved and must be defended at all costs from the horrible newcomer that sucks. Until it too is beloved. On and on forever.
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one of my favorite things in 4 was the fact that you could decouple religions from the techs that spawned them (christian players complained that because buddhism and hinduism spawned first, the games ended up being huge buddhist and hindu empires fighting)
and i used to love trying to figure out what meditative Christianity was, or a Buddhism spawned of the divine right of kings. the emergent storytelling was just delightful. and i feel that same buzz in 7 when i try to figure out who a Mexican Confucius was, or a Prussian Hatchepsut
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Taxes.
Hating the new Civ on release.
Inevitability.