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The saddest part is that everyone knew Amplitude would never get a second chance at Humankind with some sort of "lessons learned" and we expected Firaxis to strip the carcass clean and profit from the good ideas.

Then they came forward with Civ 7 actually being Humankind 2 of sorts and after the initial confusion, people were at least semi-confident that Humankind had issues because it was trying something completely different and shooting for the stars. But Civ has an infinite budget, a massive brand name and also fully playable and reviewed Humankind to learn everything there is about it and apply all that knowledge into making their improved copy of it.

Absolutely no one could predict they'd actually come up with a game with absolutely retarded mechanics which are several steps back even from Humankind.
Like seriously, if you threw Humankind and Civ 7 side by side, along with their receptions, to someone who's never heard of these games and asked them to tell which came first, they'd almost certainly say Civ 7 tried the idea first, Humankind then took all the shitty things out of Civ 7 and tried to sell this improved version of Civ 7 to people, but still ended up failing because new problems cropped up afterwards.