While eagerly awaiting the release of CIV III in Perth, Western Australia, I found this interview from a link on Wireplay. Hope you enjoy this Question and Answer transcript with Jeff Briggs as much as I did!
A very disappointing Q&A. The Questions were asked, but the Answers were very thin.
I think we delivered to fans what they were hoping for in Civ III.
[B]ut we're working on some cool multiplayer concepts that will take a new approach to the challenge of making multiplayer for a turn-based game fun. Once we have more details to report we’ll let you know.
That is a publisher decision, so we’ll have to wait and see.
All very "diplomatic"
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