Civ5 for Mac Available Soon?

Ginger_Ale · Oct 12, 2010

MacRumors has reported that according to "reliable word," a Mac version of Civ5 is to be released "likely in the coming weeks". This would be a major contrast to the Mac release of Civ4, which trailed the PC version by roughly 8 months.

We will keep an eye out for any sort of confirmation.

Thanks to CivOtaku for the news tip!

Camikaze · Oct 13, 2010

I guess I'll have to hold off buying it, then...

rj86 · Oct 13, 2010

I'd think it'll just be through Steam and I'd be surprised if you had to buy it twice, i.e. once for windows and once for os x. Well that's what I'm hoping as I've already bought it...

Methos · Oct 14, 2010

rj86 said:
I'd think it'll just be through Steam and I'd be surprised if you had to buy it twice, i.e. once for windows and once for os x. Well that's what I'm hoping as I've already bought it...

I'm guessing it will be required to be bought twice, though I'm hoping not. I dislike booting up my Windows partition to play Civ V, so if my SGs and the HOF Mod (when its released) work on the Mac side then I'll buy Civ V again.

rj86 · Oct 15, 2010

I'm just going off what has happened recently in Steam with one Civ IV purchase counting for both platforms via the Steam Play feature. I'm just guessing when I say this but I think it's an awful lot easier for Steam to deploy xplatform games like this, the fact it's a great deal for customers is a bonus.

CivFanaticMan · Oct 16, 2010

I'm not holding my breath over this. So far Fraxis has given no official release so its safe to assume that it won't be until new years. But i can wait that long because there are still a lot of bug fixes.

Krunchyman · Oct 17, 2010

Mac is horrible for gaming, come on. The only single advantage to Civ 5 on a Mac would be its processing power. But you can't top DirectX.

Methos · Oct 17, 2010

Krunchyman said:
Mac is horrible for gaming, come on. The only single advantage to Civ 5 on a Mac would be its processing power. But you can't top DirectX.

That's your opinion and note, with Steam for Mac now available it seems odd that they wouldn't release Civ V for Mac.

Moderator Action: Also, this thread is not going to turn into a Mac vs. PC war. If you all start it, I'll finish it.

Skwink · Oct 19, 2010

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=392750

YEAH!!!

Farrapo · Oct 20, 2010

I run on a Mac and currently have Civ5 running in a Windows7 partition under Parallels. It mostly works, but does suffer quite a few unexplained serious crashes. I never went to the Mac version of Civ4 because there were few good scenarios for it. I'd love to run Civ5 native on the Mac, but not if it's just to play the base game without good scenarios (and not if I have to pay twice).

asix79 · Oct 20, 2010

As a precaution, I'd make sure that I have Snow Leopard running, before I download any Mac version of ciV. Recently, Left 4 Dead 2 was released for the Mac, and I found out that it requires Snow Leopard -- after I had downloaded 11 GB of game files. I wasn't happy.

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