This, but I’ll also never feel sorry for them because of the way they previously intentionally nerfed AMD’s processor performance in applications using their compiler (i.e. a lot of big applications at the time) by checking if the the CPU was made by Intel and disabling optimizations if it wasn’t.

That was some serious monopolistic, anti-competitive bullshit.

FYI: For those out of the loop like me, the headline is written somewhat ambiguously and actually means “free multiplayer features and Age features,” not that multiplayer isn’t included at launch.

That being said, according to the Civ website at launch “up to five players [will be] supported in the Antiquity & Exploration Ages, and up to eight players [will be] supported in the Modern Age.” One of the post-launch updates will expand that limit to 8 players throughout the game and another will add teams and hotseat to multiplayer.

Not sure why they’re not there at launch since they’ve been standard Civ features for years, but…

I feel like this is a euphemistic way of saying “we paid the ransom” without actually saying “we paid the ransom.”