Facebook Civilization should debut 'this summer'

@parrot_of_adun Really? I always assumed it was Caliber on the boxart. Who'da thunk it!

Civ Rev 2

@Phil-teh-Pirate Actually, spells it "Calibur", as Namco does. I think maybe it's supposed to be a play on the word "Excalibur". @radioactive1wiz Yes, that's true... I do prefer 4 anyway.

@Phil-teh-Pirate Well, I stand corrected. I am aware of the alternate spelling in many words that you British folks use versus American English, but I wasn't aware of civilization vs civilisation. For sake of argument, I'll follow your concession on Civilization being a proper noun when related to the series.

@parrot_of_adun Yes but, and it's a big point, they are still there, months after release. They shouldn't have been there on release, but months after? That's made me lose all faith in them. Civ 4 is better. Mods ftw.

@Draxargh Well pardon my English. In England it is indeed spelled as 'Civilisation' but just for you I will concede as its is its title, I'll call it Civilization. Just like Soul Caliber (Calibre) and Medal of Honor (Honour) and whatever other word you care to mention.

Well i use Facebook but i don't feel like playing games on it....

@Phil-teh-Pirate - This is exactly my view on it. The further we get from local multiplayer the less social gaming gets.

As much as I love the franchise, I still wouldn't want to be nagged by FB friends to contribute to the game. IMO the social media is for updates and there are other, better venues for gaming.

I could careless about Civ, however a facebook app may make me change my mind. I dont play other facebook games... but this one... I may :)

@Phil-teh-Pirate Would you spell Civilization right, for Civilization? I really doubt it'd be a 2 week wait per turn. The level of addiction that people have for Facebook, add the level addiction of Civilization, I think each game would last about 2 weeks. And if it can be interacted with through the mobile platforms like iOS and Android, that would really keep it flowing, but that might be a while from now and depending on its success. And this definately isn't Farmville.

@Phil-teh-Pirate Would you spell Civilization right, for Civilization? I really doubt it'd be a 2 week wait per turn. The level of addiction that people have for Facebook, add the level addiction of Civilization, I think each game would last about 2 weeks. And if it can be interacted with through the mobile platforms like iOS and Android, that would really keep it flowing, but that might be a while from now and depending on its success. And this definately isn't Farmville.

1 Turn every 2 weeks. Invite friends to level up. Pay $5 for technology. I would do anything for Civilisation. But I won't do that... "Social" gaming needs to end. Real Social gaming is getting your pals together on the weekend and playing Burnout, hitting your friends Rock Band set after a night of drinking, slumping into a bean bag next to your mate and fighting in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Edition. Sitting in front of a computer inviting friends of friends of friends you met for 5 minutes to help you pick strawberries or some crap is NOT SOCIAL. Its like saying "I'm being social" whilst staring at the postman from the window to see if he brings mail.

In all honesty, I'm kind of excited for it after reading the slightly more in depth review at EyeGeeEn. If they do it right, could be a lot of fun, and break the mold of traditional Facebook games. Turning Civ into an almost MMO experience makes complete sense, although I'm worried at what will be sacrificed (It was bad enough losing religion in Civ V, now losing actual countries and everyone being a city-state, I'm not so sure of) I hope they don't stream-line it too much. I'm optimistic, especially since Sid Meier is working on the project specifically. Of course, it'll be a gamble given it's a Facebook game, but given the social nature of the "platform" and social nature of civilization, Civilization definately has some potential. I can't wait to genocide the world with the Axis of Freedom.

@radioactive1wiz They have fixed a number of them though, that's worth at least . But yes, I know there are a good number of problems left. The important part is that they haven't completely abandoned it.

@Parrot_of_Adun Updates? Yes. Friend never said there were no updates. Simply that they should fix the god damned bugs. A rather valid point, truth be told.

Sounds unappealing... @FriendBear There have been tons of updates for Civ5.

critical darling? pfft

facebook game? please don't turn out like dragon's age: legends...

If they only spent the time fixing all the bugs, crashes and various problems in Civ 5...before working on other projects.

Can't imagine how they turn this into a facebook game, but can't wait to see what they came up with..

The end of times is coming

Yeah, I would much prefer this over a Civ 5 expansion...

I'm actually a little excited about this. The only thing that gets me worried, though, is that it sounds like we'll be forced to naggingly send game requests to everyone on our friend lists to progress (something that has made me hate Facebook's games).

Proud to be part of the remaining 1% of the population who doesn't use Facebook

Here I was hoping to cut down on Facebook time, this happens. My god...D:

While I probably won't play it for an extended period of time, I'm excited to see how it'll work out.

Maybe the reason why Civ V was such fail was because they were spending all the effort on this.

So Sid Meier will put Civilization on Facebook, but he won't put it on the Wii? Nice.

Make games available to the masses! Amen!

I can't believe it's come to this. Great game developers making games for fricken Facebook.