Civilization VI (Free) just hit iPhone as a free update to the iPad version making it a universal game but the news isn’t stopping. Aspyr Media confirmed on Reddit that the big expansion to Civilization VI, Rise and Fall is indeed coming to iOS. Rise and Fall was fantastic when I played it on the Steam version of Civilization VI adding loads of great features and content. Watch the original announcement trailer for it below:
Rise and Fall is the first big expansion and it added some really great stuff to the base game. Golden and Dark ages added more challenges in a sort of risk reward loop. If you get into a Dark age, climbing back up will make sure the next Golden age is a Heroic one. Another addition was Loyalty. Each city’s loyalty determines whether you will have a revolt on your hands. You can even take advantage of this from another civilization. Governers were also new character additions that had their own stat bonuses and promotion trees. The best feature in Rise and Fall is Emergencies where you can form a pact with others to take on a civilization that has grown too powerful.
If you haven’t tried it yet, read Eli’s review of Civilization VI here. It is free to try and the full game unlock is still 60% off until October 16. Rise and Fall will be a paid expansion when it hits. Expect it to cost $29.99 when it eventually launches. As of now, there is not date but at least we know they are working on bringing it to iOS.
Im buying it day one !
Bring Multiplayer to IOS version, otherwise it will be useless!
Again just shafting Android for no reason besides laziness
"Laziness" = not throwing programmer resources at a platform with a zillion different hardware types, where people hate spending money? OK ...
"Laziness"= not making a game cross platform when you are perfectly capable of doing so, the market demand is there, and it wouldnt cost no more(if not less) nor take any more (if not less) time than the other port.
Why do people think hardware diversity is a valid excuse for devs treating Android users like shit? Look at the PC market! Theres actually far less hardware diversity in Android then there is in the PC market. Almost all mid range and flagship devices use the latest Snapdragon, Exynos, or Kirin processors. In terms of software, epic Games shot that excuse to shit saying that accounting for fragmentation on Android wasnt an issue at all.
Perhaps if devs actually spent the extra 20 minutes to make their games and apps cross platform then Android users would spend more.
If you think Aspyr is "lazy," "treating you like shit," and that porting to Android would take "20 minutes," you haven't factored in the amount of time it would take to respond to and support jackholes who say this kind of thing.
They dont, they just ignore people asking about Android. And yes, its pure laziness to not plan to make a game cross platform when you are perfectly capable of doing so and the market demand is certainly there. There is no valid reason for Aspyr to not make an Android port, and there is absolutely no reason for them to ignore and shun anyone asking about an Android release. That's the part that pisses me off the most. They dont even care enough about their potential consumers to officially address it or talk directly about it, even to say it's not currently on the table. Anything other than silence and pretending we dont exist would do a world of good.
“laziness”... LOL
MONEY!!
“How would cost develop the android port?”
“How much people would buy?”
They surely make this calculus.
If you think a company uses “laziness” as business driver perhaps you never worked in a company,,,
And don’t forget: every iPhone and iPad sold in the last Three Year support civizilization
Only a very little percentage of android phone sold in last year has the power to support... the great number of android phone sold are middle or low level phone
How little do you actually know about Android? There has been essentially no difference between midrange and flagship for the past two years with both running the same processors that are on par with Apple's chips. There are as many upper midrange and flagship Android devices sold, if not more than, iPhones. Porting it to Android also means that it would be Chrome OS compatible. The only reason is a combination of bias and laziness, they cant even be bothered to respond to their potential consumers
I’m responsible of smartphone in my company so, I know some little thing...
Sorry but with this answer you confirmed that talking with you is lack of time...
They are very very lazy. And yes... they don’t want the billion of dollars, pounds or euros that you, Android owner, want pay...
What a stupid company is...
Civil is best played on an iPad and always will be! (talking mobile) Sorry but Android tablets are dead and have been for a long time! Coupled with other issues raised here I can see why no Android release!
The issues raised here? Ypu mean the ones I've all dismissed as bullshit? And civ is best on iPad? Wow that is the most ignorant statement I've heard in a while. Civ is designed for PC. PC is undoubtedly the best place to play it. It's where it's best optimized, it's where it looks the best, and it's where it plays the best. the switch will become second when it releases there.
What does Android tablets being dead have to do with this?(they're not with the recent release of the Samsung TabS4 and Pixel Slate). This is a discussion about porting it to android phones and by extension chromebooks. If you cant at least be aware of the context of a situation, dont comment.
Really, I’ll go no further than state that I said civ is best played on a tablet (talking mobile) meaning if you are playing mobile. I know it’s built for PC’s originally. You don’t read stuff! No reason to port to android as there is no viable platform, and very little money is spent on apps (very easy to research) Chrome book, are you having a laugh? You are living in a fantasy! If there was money to be made they’d make it. Lazy!! That’s your argument!
There is money to be made. Devs just have a prejudice against the platform. A prejudice perpetrated by their own actions. Android users would pay more money if more apps were brought to the platform competently and devs didnt treat it like a second class platform not worthy of proper support and advertisement. I've seen dozens of devs give the Android version of their apps the crappiest possible marketing, especially compared to iOS, and then blame Android because they couldn't be bothered to promote their own damn product correctly.
If I'm living in a fantasy then you're just an idiot. Civ 5 and 6 were specifically designed with touchscreen laptops and convertible windows tablet computers in mind. This market is practically identical to chromebooks. Android support automatically means Chrome OS support. The platform you think it is best for really doesnt matter, you are not the voice of God nor are you representative of the market in question.
And yes. It is unfathomable laziness on their part. In the long run drastically cheaper to produce an app for both platforms at the same time than to make them separately. Making them separately means marginal savings now for needing to invest more overall. There is no defensible argument for why a company would seem to hate money so much that they intentionally choose a more expensive route with less profit by restricting their install base to on a good day, 10% of the market.
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