"I didn't ask to have my name on the box so I'm not going to take all the blame for that. It's a weird situation, but I'm not complaining. XCOM, for example, which I had not much to do with, doesn't have my name on it. And those games, even though I wasn't the lead designer on Civ 2 or 3, are kind of based on some ideas that I created so I can rationalize that. "I rationalize it by saying it represents a certain approach to gaming. We keep doing it, but I'm not willing to believe that I'm that person," he told me. I think of that Sid Meier as being a different person. "I think games are definitely very much a team effort these days and they were even back in the day.
There was a feeling of uneasiness when I raised the issue.
I asked the creator of Civilization and Pirates! about this pattern during the recent DICE Summit, where he took part in a panel on Civ's 25th anniversary alongside fellow franchise designers Bruce Shelley, Brian Reynolds and Soren Johnson. It's with some irony then that Sid Meier's name appears prominently on so many game boxes, even ones where he wasn't the lead designer (Civilization 2 and 3, for example). For a man who's accomplished so much in his long career in games, Sid Meier, director of creative development at Firaxis, is actually rather humble and soft-spoken when you talk to him.
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