Old man yells at cloud
I tried playing Civ 6 the other day with my friend, here's what happened;<p>- Game crashed on startup - after searching online for a bit apparently changing your Steam Download Region can fix it. As in not redownloading the game from another region, just changing the setting. This worked.<p>- Start game, started in Windowed mode and changing resolution caused the mouse to move super slowly. Restart game. Fixed.<p>- Try to start game with friend. I can't join him, he can't join me. Generic error about not being able to join host. Search online, apparently newest build is broken.<p>- Do some more searching - apparently adding the beta code for the legacy version allows you to download the previously released version. Do that. We can now play together!<p>- Play for a few hours, have fun. I need to go so I suggest we pick up some other time. We ponder if this is possible. We see a "Save Game" option. Do that, but given the earlier issues, doubt it will be useable to continue playing later.<p>- Try to play the next day. We are right, the saved game is completely hosed and we can't resume progress.<p>- Uninstall Civ 6<p>I find this experience so typical of modern software. Seems like we are at a point in time where the really talented people have left software engineering due to age or being promoted upwards. It feels like as a collective software engineers have lost their culture and everything is too complex to grasp so we build complexity on top of a misunderstood base, and everything falls apart.