More like it is a good signal because someone was willing to risk or build his reputation by putting his name on it. The Civ games have been around for a while

More like it is a good signal because someone was willing to risk or build his reputation by putting his name on it. The Civ games have been around for a while, then it became "Sid Meier's Civilization". Not because he went back in time and did more work on Civ, but because he built his rep and wanted to use it to sell a couple of more copies.