Don't overpay for sloppy code, as this sends producers the entirely wrong message. Most of the negative reviews are salt over the DLC and the QA team being lazy, and the rest are honestly about the AI in general. The game's fun and the bugs with it are more nuisance than game-breaking, but this is not the best time to get into it. By contrast, they'll have CivVi and the deluxe edition up for sale every few weeks, this most recent one for around 33%. The game itself goes on sale far more often than the DLC alone has, and typically for a better discount last time I remember the DLC itself going up on sale on Steam, it was maybe 10% discount and was a ways back. In terms of throwing money at it, wait for a steam sale that's (way) better than 33% to pick up the digital deluxe edition so you can snag the DLC for relatively cheap.

Now is not the ideal time to get into Civ6 and certainly not to pay full price for it. The penultimate expansion pack from Civilization VI’s New Frontier Pass was recently revealed. A few of the more prominent modders are also a bit salty about Firaxis' QA team dropping the ball on that one, so mod support for bugs may be somewhat more limited than usual at the moment. JanuThe Civ 6 Vietnam and Kublai Khan pack is out now on Steam and the Epic Games Store. That said, the latest patch reintroduced some older bugs that had fixes before this update, and added a few new ones, so you might want to hold off for a bit if you want your first experience with it to be better.

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