LOL they prob charged 1 thing

I would be seriously amused if Humankind would receive a surge of activity because of this.

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I am in fact, a very amused individual at this moment.

Originally posted by Shade-O:

I would be seriously amused if Humankind would receive a surge of activity because of this.

I am considering redownloading it actually.

Name one franchise or IP that doesn't "steals" or rather borrow ideas from another game/IP.

That's literally what the gaming industry has been doing for ages now. Don't act like it's something brand new.

Buddy, Humankind was far more inspired by the Civilization franchise than the other way round. And that's okay. Games build on top of each other's innovations all the time.

The idea that a future game can't use some good feature because it was already done by a past game is some peak BS.

Originally posted by Яeplicant:

Name one franchise or IP that doesn't "steals" or rather borrow ideas from another game/IP.

That's literally what the gaming industry has been doing for ages now. Don't act like it's something brand new.

Yeah but it's usually good ideas. Not the case with Civ 7. HK is awful.

I wouldn't be upset normally, but most changes listed for civ 7 are things copied from Humankind. Humankind felt like a historical themed Endless Legend, which inspired the districts of civ 6, but that felt like inspiration whereas civ 7 looks like plagiarism.

Originally posted by Shade-O:

I would be seriously amused if Humankind would receive a surge of activity because of this.

yes , I know what you mean ;].I love Humankind ideas , so I super happy with Civ7

I think you get it kinda wrong here, well yes obviously is that civ mechanic copied. But why are you crying about that? If it works its great is it not? Clearly in Humankind they implemented it not very well so why cant we just be happy for the Gaming Industry from learning from one another... Lets try and use your logic against you... According to your logic there shouldnt exist a Game that is not CIV because it was the first of its kind... But this kinda thinking is very backwards and also a little bit not so clever lets say.

To go to the extremes with your thinking we would still be stuck in the stone age in reallife. Because guess what, Technology is build upon older ones meaning copying an Idea and improving it or taking an Idea an going with a slightly different approach.

It looks like Civ7 forces you to either pick an "adjacent" civ from a cultural perspective or meet certain conditions in order to choose a non adjacent civ, such as having a particular number of horses allowing you to choose the Mongols. That's a good idea that maybe humankind would want to emulate in an update. Hey if Civ7 can borrow from HK then HK can borrow from Civ7 right?

Oh and I am specifically playing HK this evening because of the Civ7 hype and the borrowed features from HK.

I do not mean to say that civ 7 is all bad. I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up buying it, it's just that I had high hopes for the genre innovating more with the next civ game, which sadly does not seem to be happening. There is a difference between innovating using the ideas of someone else and copying them straight up, the latter of which is what I feel civ 7 is doing. Nonetheless, I look forward to seeing if civ 7 is an improvement on Humankind

Originally posted by ParakeetRiot:

I do not mean to say that civ 7 is all bad. I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up buying it, it's just that I had high hopes for the genre innovating more with the next civ game, which sadly does not seem to be happening. There is a difference between innovating using the ideas of someone else and copying them straight up, the latter of which is what I feel civ 7 is doing. Nonetheless, I look forward to seeing if civ 7 is an improvement on Humankind

I do agree that so far it seems like a lazy ripoff while presenting it as this new innovative Idea. I just think its way too early to judge it, we havent really seen it in Action yet.

Originally posted by skunkno1:

It looks like Civ7 forces you to either pick an "adjacent" civ from a cultural perspective or meet certain conditions in order to choose a non adjacent civ, such as having a particular number of horses allowing you to choose the Mongols. That's a good idea that maybe humankind would want to emulate in an update. Hey if Civ7 can borrow from HK then HK can borrow from Civ7 right?

Oh and I am specifically playing HK this evening because of the Civ7 hype and the borrowed features from HK.

It's not a good idea it's dumb. And forces you to play as one "culture" (based on Civ devs ridiculous ideas of cultural adjacency) instead of as a CIV which is what Civilization is all about.

Originally posted by identity:

Buddy, Humankind was far more inspired by the Civilization franchise than the other way round. And that's okay. Games build on top of each other's innovations all the time.

The idea that a future game can't use some good feature because it was already done by a past game is some peak BS.

Originally posted by Яeplicant:

Name one franchise or IP that doesn't "steals" or rather borrow ideas from another game/IP.

That's literally what the gaming industry has been doing for ages now. Don't act like it's something brand new.

There is a massive difference between using genre basics and blatantly stealing ideas like what Civ7 has done.

Also, yeah, quite a coincidence that Civ 7, the ''seventh'' game in the franchise, decided to use the features of the game that came out after 6th. Frankly, smells of theft and desperation.

I guess innovation is dead. the plan from now is to steal ideas from other games because there will be people happily defending it because it's a good feature.