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i can't for this to come out but i have one problem. and is the game itself for each time i try to play it only a black screen appears and i got the game in 2010. but i still can't wait to see this new dlc what not to come so i can play it as well or maybe not.

I am very interested in the new EP, but have a couple of questions.

1. Is there a choice of male or female leaders of the same civilization when starting the game?

2. Has there been a rework of where land based wonders being built? I.E. Stonehenge being built in water tiles.

As others have stated, most of this should have been included with the original game.
I'm not going to condone this blatant obsolescence that has plagued developers that used to create phenomenal work, such as Maxis and BioWare.
You would not pay full price for a bicycle that has no handle bars or a seat cover, so I will not be paying full price for this game, my purchase of Civ IV is still enough in my book. At least Civ IV has a more than capable modding community which makes Civ IV full of content, for FREE, as opposed to 2K which will cut out a more than substantial amount of the content to be resold as DLC.

Make an expansion that has legitimately innovative content, add in new civs and features that have never been in a civ game before, or at the very least, bundle the old ones you didn't have time to do with new features, not just shiny new graphics. The city states were an interesting feature, sell that as DLC, but don't rehash old content such as religion, and old civs, which were standard in the old games, to drain your customers of every cent they have. That's the point of making a sequel, is it not? To build on what you've already done?

Perhaps I'm being too harsh, perhaps the religion and espionage features will be truly interesting and worth the money, but this is borderline money grubbing in my opinion, and they'd have to make the features truly interesting to excuse this.
For a game which was so ground breaking for it's time, this is just sad to see.

As others have stated, most of this should have been included with the original game.
I'm not going to condone this blatant obsolescence that has plagued developers that used to create phenomenal work, such as Maxis and BioWare.
You would not pay full price for a bicycle that has no handle bars or a seat cover, so I will not be paying full price for this game, my purchase of Civ IV is still enough in my book. At least Civ IV has a more than capable modding community which makes Civ IV full of content, for FREE, as opposed to 2K which will cut out a more than substantial amount of the content to be resold as DLC.

Make an expansion that has legitimately innovative content, add in new civs and features that have never been in a civ game before, or at the very least, bundle the old ones you didn't have time to do with new features, not just shiny new graphics. The city states were an interesting feature, sell that as DLC, but don't rehash old content such as religion, and old civs, which were standard in the old games, to drain your customers of every cent they have. That's the point of making a sequel, is it not? To build on what you've already done?

Perhaps I'm being too harsh, perhaps the religion and espionage features will be truly interesting and worth the money, but this is borderline money grubbing in my opinion, and they'd have to make the features truly interesting to excuse this.
For a game which was so ground breaking for it's time, this is just sad to see.

This can't come soon enough!

Like someone on Facebook commented, it seems irresponsible to sell an expansion pack to a game that is not working as expected as released.

What's worse there isn't an admission that Civ V slows to a crawl after about turn 200, many times earlier. This happens even for high end machines.

My suggestion, acknowledge the problem with the original release, fix this problem and finally offer a free or discounted copy of the expansion pack. I suspect those actions will go a long way to ensure the Civ franchise's long term viability and profitability. IMHO.