Steam has been having a sale this week, so I decided to finally get the Brave New World expansion pack for Civ V (along with all the remaining DLC I had not yet obtained). I made the purchase literally just a few hours ago, so I have not yet had a chance to actually play it yet, but I certainly look forward to it once I do.
I had been spending the entire summer going through the three scenarios from the Gods & Kings expansion pack, trying to win as every playable civ, and I will say that some of them took a lot longer than I had anticipated. In fact, considering all the other things I've been doing these days, I've since come to realize just how time-consuming this game really is.
I used to follow a self-imposed rule I should stop playing before 6 pm, and if I'm not near the end of my current game, then I just go until the next auto-saved turn before quitting, and then reload that game the next day. Lately, however, not only have I continued playing past my daily deadline, I've even continued past midnight, just to make sure I'm not playing the same game for more than two or three days. The fact that I do my gaming on my desktop and my web browsing on my laptop, plus the fact that I hardly need the keyboard to play this game, I've been able to make it work. Processing the turns for the AI players takes quite some time, especially on larger maps, so I figured I could do other things rather than spend nearly half my time just waiting and waiting. But even so, I doubt I can continue playing something so intensively time-consuming for much longer.
Therefore, I have decided that I will not be getting Civ VI when it comes out. I am going to play through Brave New World, unlock as many of the achievements as I possibly can, and once I'm done with that, that'll be it for me. Once I'm finished with Civ V, I plan to no longer play any game of Civilization at all. I really do enjoy this game series a lot, but I'm afraid I just can't continue to invest so much time into this one game.