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  • “Already” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, by the time the game comes out it will have been 9 years since Civ 6. That’s 3 years longer than the gap between 5 and 6 which is the next longest gap in the series. At this point they’re vastly limited in the things they can do without a complete overhaul on base mechanics we’ve been playing with for nearly a decade.

    Would you rather they completely overhaul the current game and the original mechanics be lost to time? Of course not, the obvious next step is to make a new game.



  • The below is wrong, check the edit

    Except no, they couldn’t because of the Berne Convention which the US and Japan are both signatories on. Google complies with Japanese copyright in the US because they are required to by law. Again, complaining about the wrong thing is ineffectual, if you want change then you need to be informed enough to understand what needs to be changed in the first place.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

    It also enforces a requirement that countries recognize rights held by the citizens of all other parties to the convention

    Edit: Actually this is an interesting nuance I wasn’t aware of, so I was wrong. Sorry! I need to take my own advice more often. But there’s an interesting distribution to learn about here.

    The copyright itself is applicable in US jurisdiction regardless of what country it came from, but then the claim itself is enforced with the US’s copyright laws(and there are some weird gray areas about public domain timelines expiring at different times). So Google certainly could ignore it outside of Japan.