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I don't see anything wrong with ICS personally. Except that it is boring to play if you need a good result, like for example, a GOTM competition.

Overall, IMO, Civ5 is a nice game but the replay value is mediocre. But I said same thing about Civ3 prior to decent patches came out and about Civ4 up until Warlords came out and patches were introduced to make it playable.

However, Sulla is right about low activity of the forums and in multiplayer which is essentially unplayable at this stage.

THe worst thing which might happen is that Firaxis goes bankrupt and there would be no patches or addons to correct all the bugs and glitches.