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Civ coming to Facebook
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 22nd October 2009
Sid Meier is set to bring his classic Civilisation franchise to Facebook soon.
According to Games.com, Meier confirmed that CivNet would be hitting Facebook sometime in 2010 - and that the development team will be on the lookout for beta testers at some point in the future.
It'll still be the same-old Civilisation that fans have loved for decades, says Meier, who also plans to capitalise on the strengths of a social netowrking site to make a truly persistent, online version of the game.
CivNet will be completely free too, just in case you were worried of having to dish out in order to feed your Civ addiction - though microtransactions haven't been ruled out yet.
It's not surprising that major developers are starting to get interested in Facebook games either, what with the news breaking recently that freemium games on Facebook can make as much as $20 per user. The turn-based strategy mechanics of Civ would be ideally suited to a flash-powered game version too.
You can check out CivNet's Facebook page for more info about the game, or just let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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Thus far I have resisted Farmville and all the games available on facebook, but this might just get me hooked :/
Though I should expect the worst.. Free play*
*One city allowed, additional cities cost $4.99 each.
Maybe instant building of units or buildings and maybe some of the wonders are only available through micro transactions.
Oh, spotted this amongst the lines:
"...on the strengths of a social netowrking site ..."
I'll be keeping an eye on this, I think - if anyone can pull it off then I suspect that Sid Meier will be the one to do it.
man.... ive been laughin at my wife on how much time she spent in facebook, soon its all gonna turn back.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Same boat here!
Isn't it a "social networking site"? This relates to free gaming how?
Facebook has applications that you add to your profile. They weren't much when they first started, but now you can get some sickeningly detailed and deep games to play. They are flash based as far as I know, and a lot of my friends are hooked on some of them. Especially farmville. I have never really given any the time of day.
Civ might change that.
I find that astonishing as much as it annoys me at times, a country not utilising one of the fast growing websites of all time sounds really bizarre.
We're going to need a bigger boat!
Much MUCH bigger if I'm to fit in it :)
Germany has it's own version... (StudiVZ, Xing (former OpenBC))
You think that's odd? get this: the Netherlands have no Ebay...they have a (poor) version of their own (marktplaats.nl)
Goddamn you Facebook!