Civilization 7's new patch temporarily disables crossplay between PC and console so Firaxis can 'expedite updates to the PC'

I think Valve should really make the current „Betas“-Feature more prominent, and rename it to „Versions“ or something. It should* be pretty easy for Firaxis to just offer an old, cross-play enabled version there, while updating the regular version more frequently on PC. That would make disabling such features unnecessary.

I’ve seen only a few developers actually making use of „Beta“s in that way, but I think it would be very useful in cases like this.

there could, of course, be other technical issues preventing them from doing that, which only their developers know of

Edit: They've actually added a console-compatible "Beta" yesterday.

Buying Civ VI at launch was one of my worse decisions. Glad to be sitting this one out at least for a year or two until the game is actually finished and we can see if it's any good.