anyone wondering why i didnt cover civ 7 today, its because I asked for a code and was ignored by the 3rd party PR company handling the game (which is understandable, we dont "do numbers" in the way they prob want!) - ThreadSky

lukeplunkett.com • 19 days ago

anyone wondering why i didnt cover civ 7 today, its because I asked for a code and was ignored by the 3rd party PR company handling the game

(which is understandable, we dont "do numbers" in the way they prob want!)

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oldmanchalmers.bsky.social•19 days ago

Did your Kotaku bans follow you?

lukeplunkett.com•19 days ago

so...ill prob have SOMETHING on the site next week after ive played the early release, then...I dunno, i dont know if you even CAN review these games at launch anymore

lukeplunkett.com•19 days ago

i reviewed civ v, then re-reviewed it, then i reviewed civ vi, then re-reviewed it, and over that decade the games changed so much, and so much of what i thought about them shifted with the sands of time, that what i said at release was almost irrelevant.

rowan.monster•19 days ago

I've also come to the conclusion that the board gamey nature of Civ 5/6 (and probably 7) is something that really appeals to me when I'm forced to be immersed in it like a review has you and something that I'm not actually that fond of when out of it, which makes a review more complicated that way

lukeplunkett.com•19 days ago

there's def that

also systems that just...degrade the more you use them. the district thing in civ vi seemed neat at 100 hours.

at 1000 i wanted to burn it down, i think it ruined the entire game. thats a pretty important turnaround!

houseofartur.bsky.social•19 days ago

That's also a two distinct players playing the game for 100 and 1000 hours.

edmondtran.bsky.social•19 days ago

Personally I'm going to wait for the big forum argument on Civfanatics five years from now before making any purchasing decisions

(or maybe I will simply wait until it is not 160 dollars to play)

lukeplunkett.com•19 days ago

i only found out about the aus pricing last week and i still havent recovered

kraigwithak.bsky.social•19 days ago

I totally get with how the game shifts that it throws out a lot of what was said about it before but personally I still value thoughts on how a game is at release (and other milestones along the way of the bandwidth allows) because it helps my decision making at that time

mathewolson.com•19 days ago

as someone who re-reviewed a live service game i loved, one that is still going to this day and is now nearly unrecognizable to me... yeah i still wanna know the LP vibe on if civ vii is a good time *now* so i'll read whatever you end up with

jamesswinbanks.bsky.social•19 days ago

was always fascinated by this approach. i still don't really know of a better one though. the goal posts are moving so much these days.

a-linking-ion.bsky.social•19 days ago

Reviews need to be more organic due to how updates work

aidanis.fun•19 days ago

Is this normal? I’m surprised by how often my emails to PR go unanswered as a freelancer. There’s multiple games I’m trying to pitch on right now and it’s impossible to hit release windows if I don’t have a code/access.

miraf.bsky.social•19 days ago

This is how I find out that there's a civ 7.

velfixi.bsky.social•19 days ago

Is civ 7 more like civ 5 or 6?

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