Civilization MMO coming to Asia

I want that in America too!

I will buy it the moment I can

Another MMO, There should be Super mario online :DDD

Ugh, another MMO...

This sounds like a great idea, if I understand all this to mean that there will basically be a massive persistent world, though it seems like it might be a nightmare to manage...unless they do things right, and I'm thinking of how they might actually pull off having a huge strategic free-for-all.

For people talking about MMO as in 24/7 persistent... that's not necessarily the case.  MMO is almost like an arbitrary branding for free to play crap.  Case in point, the term MMOFPS.  Doesn't apply to the majority of shooters that are branded as MMOFPS.  A valid MMOFPS would be something like Planetside, NOT a shooter with a persistent character, loadout and a chat lobby.  Same thing with MMORTS.  The whole thing is screwed up.

I truly hope this tanks and they never think of bringing it to the west. Enough with the online games! Haven't they butchered the franchise enough with Civ V?

Civilization already devours whole days in single player form. I could just imagine a Civilization MMO. You wake up one day and you're five years older wondering where those years went.

if it's asian there will probably be an ungodly amount of grinding involved

If it turns out great, we'll see Civ MMO here.

2k games. you produce some great stuff. (bioshock, oblivion, borderlands, civ, the darkness, and of course the new xcom.) Good luck with your project. I would love to finally play an MMO that isnt of the WOW genre. SO um... if its any good, you should release it to the rest of the world too. My interests, are peaked.

Sigh. Are all games trying to break into the online sphere? Civilization is primarily a single player game, but I have had plenty of fun playing online in multiplayer matches. I'll admit though, I am interested to see how this will work (or not, as the case may be). Civilization takes a long time to play, and having people spontaneously joining games is a bad idea. Getting spawn killed in civ would be far worse than in an FPS because it is such a time investment. If they simply make the world huge, then there is the potential for either thousands of pathetic city states or a few supermassive alliances. The city states may actually be fun because of all the little schemes. However, it would take an extensive diplomacy system that no online game seems to have. (To my knowledge. Please let me know if I am wrong) With the super-alliances, it would take a tremendous amount of coordination to pull off effectively from a military standpoint. Oh, not to mention that Civ is a turn based game. Imagine waiting for 1000+ players to take their turns. Or, alternatively, imagine having your computer render it all once you acquire extensive map vision. I predict a game that is more like Civ Worlds, the FB "social experience" .game. Oh, and since its coming out in Asia, I predict P2W mierda like paying to unlock upgrades for your soldiers and/or overpowered civs. Ooohhh, lets make them pay for the Canadian Civilization which gets double oil reserves, gets double production from clearing forest and swampland, and the ability to instantly cease all hostilities! With anyone! Alternatively, you can spend 5 bucks on the Zulu: insanely fast early game units that destroy absolutely everything out there cause they cost almost nothing to build.

Paying for Civs, paying for units, paying for buildings, paying for stat bonuses on units, etc.  I can see it now.