Gods and Kings

forty2j · Feb 16, 2012

For those who may have bypassed the front page and the General forum -
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=454124

I'm excited. I also have questions that Aspyr may not be able to answer yet:
- How long do we think the lag is between the PC and Mac release?
- Is there any change to the development model, or is "Mac development starts when PC goes gold" still in place?

AspyrRyan · Feb 16, 2012

From:http://www.aspyr.com/news_articles/...rt-of-civilization-v-expansion-gods-and-kings

Aspyr is happy to reveal that we are in full support of the expansion and are working hard to have a Mac version released soon after.

We're obviously going to work on getting the releases as close together as possible, but I'll have nothing specific until it's about to hit.

gcareaga · Feb 16, 2012

I'd set the over/under at 50 days but I'll be pulling for the under.

CGPanama · Feb 16, 2012

Ryan,

Thanks for the great news. In the spirit of the expansion, I will sacrifice my first born to the gods for their help in expediting this.

josephgerth · Feb 16, 2012

AspyrRyan said:
From:http://www.aspyr.com/news_articles/...rt-of-civilization-v-expansion-gods-and-kings

We're obviously going to work on getting the releases as close together as possible, but I'll have nothing specific until it's about to hit.

Thanks for the news update Ryan, we really appreciate your support!

forty2j · Feb 16, 2012

gcareaga said:
I'd set the over/under at 50 days but I'll be pulling for the under.

Hmm. It was, I believe, roughly 160 days to get Civ V vanilla out the door. 50 sounds reasonable for an xpac (though, of course, longer than I'd prefer..

).

AspyrRyan · Feb 17, 2012

For the Civ V release, we were only two months behind! PC hit on Sept. 21, then our Mac version hit on Nov. 23.

forty2j · Feb 17, 2012

AspyrRyan said:
For the Civ V release, we were only two months behind! PC hit on Sept. 21, then our Mac version hit on Nov. 23.

Why did I think PC release was July? Hmm.

It was a long enough gap for the PC price to drop to $20 on Amazon and make it impossible to resist buying, typing in code, and downloading Mac version though. (Seriously, you need to get the business model fixed so that the right people get paid no matter when/how a copy is bought.)

Nevyn · Feb 18, 2012

Ryan: I bought SW Empire At War last week for nostalgica. So now you got a bit of revenue to add to God & Kings budget. =)

Seriously, Aspyr is awesome when it comes to porting games. Your trademark equals quality. Keep up the good work.

AspyrRyan · Feb 21, 2012

Nevyn said:
Ryan: I bought SW Empire At War last week for nostalgica. So now you got a bit of revenue to add to God & Kings budget. =)

Seriously, Aspyr is awesome when it comes to porting games. Your trademark equals quality. Keep up the good work.

Thanks!
The original Empire At War port was my first project as QA Lead from start to finish.

autumnmist · Feb 21, 2012

forty2j said:
Why did I think PC release was July? Hmm.

It was a long enough gap for the PC price to drop to $20 on Amazon and make it impossible to resist buying, typing in code, and downloading Mac version though. (Seriously, you need to get the business model fixed so that the right people get paid no matter when/how a copy is bought.)

Agreed 100%.

I'm glad Aspyr made Civ V SteamPlay (and actually given the terrible performance I get on my MBP, I've ended up playing 50% on my Windows machine), but I really hope Aspyr is going to negotiate future ports differently so that 1) the Mac users don't get screwed by the original publisher dropping the patch as soon as it's done, 2) Aspyr doesn't get screwed by all of the Mac users who dual boot/whatever and buy the Windows version because it's out sooner.

Zaimejs · Feb 22, 2012

This looks AWESOME. I'll be playing on Bootcamp before the mac version comes out. Awesome.

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CGPanama

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forty2j

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forty2j

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