My wife and I bought this game, as she is a crazy turn-based strategy game player.
So we're playing a multiplayer map and it's just been nothing but headache after headache. Crashes have been becoming more and more frequent and we don't have weak machines. Both of us have 16GB of RAM, good video cards, SSD hard drives, good internet connection (50Mbps) and they're not even the same manufacturer (she has an HP, I have an ASUS gaming laptop).
We get a decent amount into the game (4-6 hours) and it has hit the point where we are both experiencing increasingly frequent CTD, mostly related to the diplomacy screen.
I don't mind paying for a Beta game, but then you're saying "release in less than 2 days", I expect the game to be stable, not crashing more and more. We actually had probably a dozen crashes between the two of us in less than 2 hours. We've both saved and restarted as the host and it didn't make any difference. Crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash.
We'll probably try some more next week and we're going to give up on our current game and start over to see if that fixes the crashes, but I'm more than a little worried about this happening again, or it being related to us using a huge map. I'd hate to have to use a small map because the game just can't handle the larger ones.