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Civ 5 Will Let You Import and Convert Civ 4 Maps

Posted by Soulskill on from the backward-compatibility dept.

bbretterson writes "From an interview Bitmob conducted with Civilization 5 Lead Designer Jon Shafer: 'You can import Civ 4 maps into the world builder and convert them into Civ 5 maps, including all the units and cities and stuff on it — the conversion process will just do that for you automatically. We're hoping that the first week Civ 5 is out, people will use that function and port all of the Civ 4 stuff over to Civ 5, so everything will be out there already.'"

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  1. New, Old, Whatever ... by lorg · · Score: 0, Troll

    "We're hoping that the first week Civ 5 is out, people will use that function and port all of the Civ 4 stuff over to Civ 5, so everything will be out there already"

    WHAT? So they hope that the thing that attracts people to their NEW game is to play OLD stuff? They don't even think that the new and shiny features will be enough to hold the attention of its fans for a single week before resorting to falling back to CIV4 stuff?

    That doesn't really fill me with confidence. I guess it's all part of the process that has been going on for a few games now where they tone and tune things down, streamlining it to become easier and easier.

    That said, like a good little civaddict I'll get my copy.