Tag: AI

Why Civilization VII is not a Civilization Game: The Emergent Story

The blurbs that appear at certain times of a Civilization III playthrough were always a great way to know about your progress at certain points of a game.

These blurbs, especially the ones that said: “The Most Advanced Nations of the World” or “The Largest Nations of the World” were important to know whether you were going to build a great empire or be at the mercy of your rivals.

This is what Civilization VII is missing. It has the graphics, but it cannot create a feeling of progress or change.

Civilization games are not just about the Civilization but about they affect the world around them. Civilization VII just takes that away and imposes the board game mentality that was starting to creep in with Civilization V.

When you enter a new age, you start with a new civilization of your own choosing, basically resetting the map and you are back to square one. This is essentially splits the game up into three mini games. That is not interesting in the slightest as Civilization is a macro game not some mobile game. While some mobile games are intriguing, Civilization VII basically railroads you into certain gameplay choices. That makes the game less replayable and essentially is changing the spirit of the game.

Civilization V’s continued presence should be a sign of how fans really perceive the newest game. This 15-year-old game continues to outperform Civilization VII. Even Civilization VI, which I had issues with, is ahead of Civilization VII by a considerable amount. I believe that Firaxis Games will have to create a Civilization VIII more quickly than they anticipated as the game is not gaining traction. Civilization VI was in a much better spot a year after release and Civilization V was not surpassing Civilization VI in the player counts.

These small blurbs are just text but they also connect to the great context of the game. You are not simply building a civilization but building a world. That is what Civilization VII lacks and why players are not warming to the game.

How to save money with AI in 2026: Switch to ChatGPT Go

What is ChatGPT Go?

I have made the choice to switch to ChatGPT Go. This is a new tier in the subscription model in here. It is a basic tier above the free usage of the AI chatbot here. It only costs $8 dollars a month.

ChatGPT has been go to LLM since 2023 alongside Microsoft’s Copilot. However, Google was going to catch up at some point here. While they had some stumbles with earlier versions of their AI models, Gemini is really proficient at creating something specific to my interests, photorealistic images. While many people may be tiring of photorealism in movies or video games, I love seeing how an alternate world or historical age would appear through some tweaks in the prompts.

ChatGPT Pro is $20 dollars a month and I think it has more value than a Netflix subscription. Netflix is just stuffing their platform with games and podcasts instead of filmed shows and movies. ChatGPT can be applied to many areas of productivity and entertainment here.

There has been some criticism of ChatGPT in recent weeks. Some say that the site is burning money. Here is my view: Every internet site goes through this phase. The main difference is that ChatGPT has gone from making 3 billion dollars to making 20 billion dollars in 2025.

The company is requiring some very heavy investments in capital, but I believe that they are on the right track in here.

Who should be using ChatGPT Go?

AI tools are some of the greatest ways to be productive and creative at the same time here. However, these tools are not cheap, and we need to be finding more economical ways to use these groundbreaking tools without spending too much here. This makes sense to anyone who wishes to save money in order to balance their budgets here.

Advertising is a necessary part of growing an internet business now. Open AI has to be careful about how it implements ads into this tier of their services. I do not want to be like how Netflix is shoving their ads into their shows. It needs to be subtle and not in your face here. The approach that they seem to be taking is nice and I appreciate it. They need to make it relevant to the users of their accounts. There have been too many ads that are basically irrelevant to my usage in cyberspace.

ChatGPT is approaching 800 billion weekly users. This is an incredible market to use for monetization and for the stabilization of the AI bubble. However, they need to make sure that they produce a product which people want to use. They need it to be useful for their everyday lives in both entertainment and productivity.

ChatGPT Pro is simply too expensive for me right now and ChatGPT Go is prefect for my usage. Having more affordable options to use AI is great for us.

This tool has changed the economy and the world and now its time to find the best way to use it for the betterment of our age.

The Need to Monetize AI and Ads on ChatGPT and Google Gemini

It seems that the need to monetize everything is coming to the world of AI chatbots. There has been talk of ChatGPT putting ads on their site. It has been such a great tool not having to see ads popup on a website, not having Video ads that break immersion while watching a history video or tutorials on software. However, with so many users on ChatGPT, some 800 million strong, it is clear that ads are going to be put on the site. I believe that it is going to occur early in 2026 as the site needs a way to make up for its debt it has been acquiring and the cost of all the investments from other companies.

I think what needs to happen is that ads have to be implemented carefully. I do not want to have full screen ads such as on YouTube. Every single video seems to have these annoying video ads that comes up every time the content creator is getting to an important part of their video here.

They need to make sure the ads are non-intrusive and relate to agentic AI. Instead of just filling everything with ads which are taking up space, they need to make sure the ads are speaking to customer’s precise views on what they want to purchase on the site.