Civilization 7 is making major changes to its game’s model, and I think that it might undercut one of the things I like about the franchise the most. I’ve thought about it a lot because I wanted to give Firaxis Game veterans who have worked on Civ the benefit of the doubt about their recent decisions to change underlying aspects of the Civ games. The main issue arguably causing the most controversy is the severing of ties between civilizations and their leaders. After all, this is a Civilization game, and previous iterations would have their most memorable (or infamous) real historical figure(s) tied to the civilization they influenced in real history.