There will be no Civ5

[beeper917]

Based on the amount of people who are having problems with Civ4 I doubt there will be a Civ 5. Count Civ to go the way of MOO after MOO3

[LDiCesare]

The problems seem to be driver-related more than anything, so it's quite possible that they release a patch once they know the configurations which don't run.

[TimeTraveler]

How many people had problems when Civ3 came out? If it's more than what we're seeing here, then the bugs are no reason for CiV to never be released.

[Harry Tuttle]

Yeah, get off the ledge and calm down.

[Generaldoktor]

This is a real positive thread. I've got driver problems, but the game works half the time anyway and I'm playing away. How about somebody post some solutions? Me first. Disabling firewall, virus protection and spyware detection seems to help on my 3 gig, P4, 512 RDRAM baby. Of course, if you have an open internet connection, (I've got RoadRunner,) I suppose something could creep in. I run more frequent scans as a result. Yeah, a patch would be nice.

[Gnool]

I really doubt they'd retire a much loved and hugely successful franchise because of a few bugs, especially when you consider the amount of people who are saying they love Civ 4. At first people hated Civ 3, but they went and made Civ 4 anyway!

[D4everman]

Dude, increase your medication.

CivIV has been available for what....a week? And you're making predictions that the civ franchise is going to die? You must really be

A) Really upset due to whatever bugs seem to plague you or others.
B) Just generally pessimistic.
C) You truly have the gift of prophecy and the rest of us are too blind to see it.

[Electrius]

MoO died because of MoO3's bascially non-existent gameplay. Civ4's is just fine -- even if you think it's mediocre, that doesn't kill a series. The technical issues will be patched.

[wilebill2]

Oh yes there will be a Civ 5! Take Two just bought Firaxis today, no longer merely the publisher, but the owner of the company. There are no personnel or staff changes. This is a vote of confidence in the Civ series by its publisher.

Given the sales of Civ 4, I'm betting on an xpack, a Civ 5, and maybe even a new SMAC if they can get the rights to it.

[kseecs16]

There's no way they would not make another CIV game despite the inital problems "some" people are having i can guarantee this release has been very financially succesfull. Why else would the publisher buy the people that made it?

[Broken Hawk]

Is there a time frame on a patch to solve some of these bugs? Such as:

intro skip
cheshire cat
black tiles

If it is a troubleeshooting issue, I'm haviing a hard time figuring out things.

[Egbert]

Re: There will be no Civ5

Originally posted by beeper917
Based on the amount of people who are having problems with Civ4 I doubt there will be a Civ 5. Count Civ to go the way of MOO after MOO3

Civ4 appears to be very successful, good sales and many happy customers. I think a lot of people will buy Civ5 when it comes out. I will buy Civ5 when it comes out.

[drunkandarmed]

In reference to the comments on MOO3. I got very frustrated with it when I came out but there have been some community patches put out that made the game very enjoyable since then. As for Civ 4 The game runs great on my system, except for tthe fact that all the movies are very choppy. Anybody have any suggestions on that?

Athlon 2800
Asus A7N8X-X mobo
1024 ram
Radeon 9800 (124mb?)

[realpolitic]

The problems isn't enough to kill the series, I'm sure cIV will sell plenty of copies, but this is very frustrating. ctp1 had good ideas, but stank. Strategy was almost as easy as civ1. People were unwilling to try ctp2, wich killed it. Ctp2 was fun, it had gotten rid of the game killing strategies, but looked too much like ctp1. Now civ is one of a kind, turnbased epic, so I doubt it's gonna die.

[paramir]

well, they could use it as an excuse to make SMAC2...