I played enough of V and monitored enough of VI and VII to know I didn't want to even buy those. At this point I feel like buying these newer Civ games is akin to paying to go to trash new Star Wars movies. They can assassinate one of my favorite franchises; I'm not going to give them money for it. You have a recipe made by a genius, and then these retards who think they're smarter than the genius come in and significantly change things instead of just tweaking around the edges with nicer graphics.
They'll keep doing the same formula ever again : release an unfinished product -> it's a mess -> market the products shelf life as "patches / seasons / addons / DLC / free content -> years after, it's somewhat doing okay -> release an unfinished product.