If you had told us back in the day, as we took our original Civilization floppy disk and popped it into the drive, that one day in the future there would be an iteration of Civ that had multiple different versions, cosmetics that you need to pay extra for, and you could play the game five days earlier than everybody else, with the caveat that it would cost you $130 we would probably have assumed you had banged your head.
But this Civ friends is now the world we live in. And the scary thing is...