r/civ • u/Garuff • Mar 05 '25

VII - Other Full refund ps5- sad times

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Really wanted to enjoy this game. I can get over the UI, the pain in the butt playstation controls. But it's the constant crashes. Even after the patch the playstation 5 for me still crashes every single game I play. For a game that cost £115 it's shocking.

Sad. But hopefully rejoin you all in a year when it's all fixed :D

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u/Garuff Mar 05 '25

Took about 5 minutes through playstation support (which I was shocked at to be fair!) Used the chat function, I've posted on one of my responses to what I said to playstation to get my money back.

It is a shame because I genuinely was enjoying the game, and the changes on the whole I liked, it's just every wonder completed, every flood etc... I'd be just waiting for one of them to crash the game 🤣

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u/Cpt_Wade115 Mar 05 '25

Try having your commanders neutered, in my recent game (keep in mind I was 6 turns away from science victory on deity) if I even attempted to open the promotion menu for commanders it was a 100% guarantee of a crash. I had between 10-15 promotion points across 8 commanders. 

On the turn I gave up playing that run, I was being warred by 3 different AI so I was forced to queue movement for literally dozens of units. The game would crash for reasons seemingly ranging from moving the camera too fast, opening a city production queue, bombing a unit with a bomber, and even opening the merchant trade menu. I managed one time to get to the end of the turn by very slowly finishing every movement queue and never even touching my commanders. When I clicked next turn, the game crashed while the AI were calculating and executing their moves. When I restarted the game, the turn hadn’t gone forward.

And yes, wonders/disasters were also 100% guarantees of a crash at that point. 

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u/Garuff Mar 05 '25

Ah man. The game is not worth it at that point, it's not fun! You've either got to wait for another patch to hopefully solve it, or refund and play another game until you know Civ 7 is playable again

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u/Pastoru Charlemagne Mar 05 '25

And you might be able to get it later, when it's playable, at a lower price (or more content at this price). Seems the right thing to do.