A tweet confirms that Civilization VI has already passed the 1 million mark in terms of sales, confirming the rumors and speculations that the game has already done so this week. What's remarkable is that the said million mark was done in 2 weeks, as it was released on Oct. 21.
According to their official Twitter account, Civilization VI thanked everyone for the achievement of having 1 million players and that the support is highly appreciated, the ever popular tagline "stay civilized" is also in the tweet. Along with the post is a picture of the developers who seemed relieved that the 6th installment of the game is out. The exact words of the tweet are:
"THANK YOU to our more than ONE MILLION Civilization VI players. Your support means everything to us. Stay civilized!"
Another achievement the Civilization crew has done today is that they still have Civilization V in Steam's top 10 most-played games, Gamasutra.com reports. That makes 2 Civilization games in the charts.
The secret to success
Report says that "Sid Meier's 33/33/33 rule of sequel design" is one of the major factors for the success. The concept says something like: 33% of what's existing, 33% improvement, and 33% something totally new when it comes to game mechanics. Examples such as XCOM 2 and the Beyond Earth expansion were stated as examples. You might be wondering where the 1% is, so we'll just assume it's 'love'. Kidding aside, here are the actual words from Gamasutra.com:
"You want 33 percent of what's already there, existing, 33 percent improved, and 33 percent brand-new in terms of mechanics," ...That's something he's [Meier] spread throughout all the franchises at the company. You saw that with XCOM 2, you saw that with [Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth expansion] Rising Tide when that came out. We try to keep that in all the games we make."
On top of that, Civ games producer Dennis Shirk adds that it is also important not to completely get carried away by this idea, they still need to solicit feedback from the community in the earlier stage of development.
