In 1995, I started playing CivNet and sunk hundreds of hours leading my nation to global domination more times than I can remember. Graphically the game as ages incredibly poorly, with almost everything being displayed in a menu or popup window, but in my mind it was all just a representation for something so much grander and, dare I say, epic. That little box with a low resolution Hoplite was a unit of highly skilled soldiers trekking through the wilderness, protecting the borders of my empire and with that, my people.
Much like your nation progressing through the ages in-game, the Civilization franchise is still around today, only they appear to be suffering through a dark age. The latest game requires you to agree to an End User License Agreement that says the publishers can collect what is essentially every personal detail about you from your computer to use however they like (EULA quote below). Perhaps they just miss-clicked and specced into and Orwellian regime by mistake.
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