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Slogan

I'm starting to doubt if Firaxis's slogan is The Firey Axis of Creativity. It might be Games that stand the Test of Time. --Munchkinguy 20:06, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

They may have changed it at some point. Anyway, it looks like it's the latter one. I changed it in the infobox. — Frecklefoot | Talk 21:00, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

Gettysburg link

There are two different internal links to the Gettysburg game, one for Sid meiers Gettysburg, and one for an unexistant Gettysburg(video game) page. I'me a noob to editing, so I dont know if I should change the link or create the second page (as a redirection?) Thanks.

List of games section

Respected editor Zntrip changed the list of games sections from a bare list to a table. While I agree the old list was rather lacking, the table makes it look like the platforms the game was released the most important feature of the game:

Year	Title	Platform(s)
Year	Title	DS	iOS	Lin	Mac	PS3	PSP	Wii	Win	WP	Xbox	X360
1997	Sid Meier's Gettysburg!	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
1998	Sid Meier's Antietam!	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
1999	Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
1999	Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No

How about ONE column for platforms (see List of Electronic Arts games for an example) and a column with a very short description of the game? I think this would be far more useful. This would also save a lot of space, since Firaxis normally doesn't release games on a ton of platforms. Example:

Title	Year	Platform(s)	Description
Sid Meier's Gettysburg!	1997	Win	A real-time tactical video game of the Battle of Gettysburg
Sid Meier's Antietam!	1998	Win	A real-time tactical video game of the Battle of Antietam
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri	1999	Linux, Mac, Win	A critically acclaimed science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire	1999	Linux, Mac, Win	An expansion to Alpha Centauri

Like I said, I think the move to a table was a good one, but I'm not sure the columns are the most relevant for their games. Any thoughts? — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 01:05, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New table for games

Since no one responded above, how about something like this?

Title	System	Release date	Ref(s)
Sid Meier's Gettysburg! (1997)	Microsoft Windows	1997	^{[citation needed]}
Sid Meier's Antietam!	Microsoft Windows	1998	^{[citation needed]}
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri	Microsoft Windows	1999	^{[citation needed]}
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire	Microsoft Windows	1999	^{[citation needed]}
Sid Meier's Civilization III	Microsoft Windows	2001	^{[citation needed]}
Sid Meier's Civilization III	Mac OS	2001	^{[citation needed]}
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Play the World	Microsoft Windows	2002	^{[citation needed]}
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Conquests	Microsoft Windows	2003	^{[citation needed]}
Sid Meier's SimGolf	Microsoft Windows	2002	^{[citation needed]}

If no one objects, I'll finish it and add it to the article. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 09:40, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's cool. I like it. Tanisho4Real (talk) 12:28, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why no pronunciation?

It always seemed obvious to me that it is a contraction of "fire-axis", and is pronounced that way, but a lot of people in youtube videos say "fer-AX-is", which seems absurd. And often they slur it to "frAXis". Any official info on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77Mike77 (talk • contribs) 20:06, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]