Civilization Franchise Sold

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  Not anymore. I bought it, and now the entire team has been reassigned. Right now, most of them are raki... : Caboose
  • I LOL'd. : SiW73
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  Civ IV is still in development here and is coming along as scheduled. It's looking great, by the way. ... : dgackey
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    Why aren't you raking Caboose's leaves? What's he paying you for? : Anti_dentite
    • They get 15-minute breaks 2x per day. Stupid labor laws >:( : Caboose
  • Plant! Look at his post history..he obviously works for them. hehe..j/k :D : deathofrats
  • Thanks for the info.. I love the civ games. : ece_ssg
  • Thanks for the info! I was worried there for a while. : pyrogen
  • I just put $50 in an envelope marked "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL CIV4 STREET DATE." : Deathlove
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    I love you. Where do I sign up to have your babies? Well, Sid's babies. : Clay
    • We should just hold a lottery of Firaxis people for us to have the babies of 2 lucky winners. : Sarcastro
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    Is it going to ruin my life like the last one? :( : stump
    • I know it'll ruin mine, and I'll enjoy it :D : Sixcos
  • what is the schedule? : alky

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• Is it possible that they bought if from Infogrames? I'm too stupid to know how this stuff works :( : gingerninja
• The Civ franchise was owned by MicroProse, which was bought by Hasbro Games (who owned all sorts of shit,... : evildanish
• that would be great if firaxis was the one that bought it : RikiTiki2
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  yeah i was disappointed to find that a publisher owned the license ... i would have thought it better tha... : paganritual
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    smart money says its someone the fans won't like, otherwise they'd have come out saying they got it alrea... : thatguy2090
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      what makes you think EA care about what people think. in fact, what have they done in the last 3 years th... : paganritual
      • its called 'marketing strategy' whoever it is probally won't announce it before they have a product close... : thatguy2090
• As I remember Civ was originally a pen and paper game that Microprose go the right to, wasn't it? : Vorlonesque

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  These were the Call to Power games. Not bad either. : Sylvanus
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    I actually prefer the Call to Power games over the Civ3 one. CtP is the first one where I really felt ... : SilverSnake
    • I can't help you there. I have Civ3, (also had CtP) but I haven't played it much - this happened about t... : Sylvanus
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      SMAX > SMAC > * Alpha Centauri was, and still is, awesome. : Arcanum
      • Totally agree. : Sylvanus
    • i liked CTP as well... I liked space, and that little space shuttle thing that you could use to pick up g... : Modulus

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• God help us now : rigidnips
• A+++ would snicker again. : SeaLlama
• Peasants demand more civic urinals? : PUPSTAHS
• Ugh. =\ : abubu

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• Including this one, three. It was originally developed and owned by MicroProse. They were then bought ... : evildanish

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  fucking french : Phearsome
  • Exact. Tout comme "Ubisoft". :) : pillzer

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  civ 4 in a fps setting...fighting M1 tanks with arrows and axes! : sanchez
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    and winning! : thatguy2090
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      It worked for Rambo : Magitek
      • meet a real life green barret and make him angry. I reccomend watching it far away though some binoculars : thatguy2090
  • Just because valve is known for FPS games doesn't mean the new civ would have to be an FPS, it could be l... : b00g

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• i was thinking the exact same thing. i bet ea bought it : ^-SeaWolf-^
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  I hadn't considered this, but now i want to die. : Deathlove
  • That was the first thing to pop into my mind... seriously, they have to cash... who else has enough cash ... : Sidd Gunn
• http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,617/ : jayares

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  America demands a snap review. : Deathlove
  • its badass, : thatguy2090

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  Call to Power : jet-poop
  • C2P 1 or 2? : Sylvanus
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  Atari = death to franchises : byorn
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    What about Unreal Tournament or Neverwinter Nights? : Sylvanus
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      Epic is getting away from Atari, last I checked : RikiTiki2
      • :) I was unaware of this. See one of my other posts, I follow the people behind it. :) It'd be interes... : Sylvanus
• There's plenty of good games out there (arguably better) without the Civ title. Follow the developers of... : Sylvanus

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• it just means the Atari upper ups need more coke money.. : deathofrats

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• God I love threatening people with nukes : j33uk