Civilization 7 has officially gone gold - we're ready to hit shelves on February 11.

Does going gold mean anything anymore? Nearly every major game is garbage at release and needs tons of patches and fixes.
- It means there's something in the box now. That's about it.
- It is called "going gold" because it is the gold standard for measuring the tolerance level for embarrassment from releasing the pile of garbage a project produced. Going gold is done at exactly the point when that drops from intolerable to tolerable to the stake holders.

Lol this is the most expensive game I have in my wishlist, and I bet it won't be good until it gets an expansion.

I generally like the Civ games but I’m definitely not a Day 1 player. I’ll probably pick this up in a heavily discounted bundle with the inevitable expansions and at least some of the DLC in a Steam sale a couple years from now.
- This is the way. Civ 6 is so cheap when it goes on sale now. I bet it's a more complete game than Civ 7 too but I might be wrong.
  
  Why does Civ VI have In-App Purchases?

My interest depends on their dlc policy. I play 4x games with friends and some of my friends can't always buy the latest cool dlc. I want to be able to play with stuff I paid for even when I play with them.

After thinking about it for weeks I think I've finally settled on buying it, assuming day 1 performance is good. No preorders. I'm not installing that denuvo garbage on my pc though so at least civ 7 has finally made me switch to Linux last weekend.
- I would’ve bought it day 1 assuming reviews come back okay, but I refuse to ever spend $70 on a base game. I’ll wait for a sale if that’s what they’re charging.