Civilization 6 Leader Pass introduces a new piece of content for fans of one of the best 4X games. Unfortunately, it also causes havoc as the update broke the game for some players, with many users reporting that they are unable to boot Civ 6 on their Windows PC, MacOS or Linux operating systems, including Proton. Developer Firaxis has released an update to the strategy game that seems to have fixed the issue for some, but many have reported that they still can't get into matches, or that their DLCs are missing when they do.
Also among the reported issues was a rights issue with the Leader Pass, which is free for players who purchase the Civilization 6 Anthology or all Civ 6 DLC from the store. Steam or Epic Games. In some cases this did not register, with the official Civ account in Twitter reported, that the issue has now been resolved and should be rolled out to all eligible players, although the post notes that this "may take some time."
It appears that an update released after the initial problems that arose after the release of the Leader Pass has resolved the problems of some players who could not open the game, but many players in the extensive thread on the forums Steam report that they still can't open the game. Others say they can boot into Civ 6, but it only shows the base game with no purchased DLCs.
The publisher of Civilization 6 on MacOS, Aspyr, posted on the site message which helps players on Mac systems solve problems that cause the game to launch incorrectly. To do this, you need to pass the file check and make it run through the system security settings. This is, of course, an inconvenient workaround.
Not being able to open a game is frustrating at the best of times, but it's even more frustrating when it happens after new content has been released - and especially when it turns out that the root cause may be the content update itself. Players on the forum and responding to the developers on Twitter seem to be mostly asking Firaxis to acknowledge that it is working on a fix for the problem.
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