lostcause
Aim to Misbehave
I think the question has become, not if, but when and how they make a Mac version.
"We asked if it would possibly be coming to the Mac, an especially timely question given Monday's hot and steamy announcement, but a 2K representative told us, "We can't comment on that right now." Which smells a lot like, "We'd better start work on a Mac version pretty darn quick.""
Very, very interesting. It used to be companies would come out and say that they weren't working on a Mac port, with a more or less polite reference to the (then) small installed base. I guess when Blizzard and Valve both start releasing stuff for Macs, everybody else sits up and listens.
(How would you like to be a member of the Firaxis Civ V team when the boss from 2K comes to your meeting one Monday morning after you have been working on the game for two years and says "Fantastic game, guys, we all really love it. And we're really looking forward to the great Mac port you're going to be releasing at the same time." Now wouldn't that make you want to throw up?)
err, a lot of games don't take long to make Mac Compatible
Somebody is missing. You mean EA right? Ubisoft? id? THQ?
The Civ franchise feels like quite a nice fit for Macs. It's a shame they're clearly not designing it in a cross platform format from the ground up.
Having said that, Macs are not gaming systems so nobody should be surprised when they encounter problems when using them for this.
Dear Firaxis, the estimates for the February sales of Macs are in (my emphasis):
Mac sales in the month of February were up 43 percent for the month, which followed a similarly strong January increase of 36 percent. In all, Mac sales for the first two months of 2010 are up 39 percent year over year.This is why the other kids are releasing games for Macs. Shouldn't some of those new Macs run Civ?
EDIT: Oh, and then there is this part:
Apple of late has consistently delivered blowout quarterly results. During the three-month holiday frame, the company sold a record 3.36 million Macs, helping it to achieve a 50 percent spike in profits. Though I'd like to add that we're getting tired of these Core 2 chips. Steve, bring on the i7!
Macs are not high-powered gaming systems, but as far as stability I've never seen a Mac system crash playing a game that fits into its system requirements while Windows computers seem to have an endless number of hitches in this regard.
Macs are not high-powered gaming systems, but as far as stability I've never seen a Mac system crash playing a game that fits into its system requirements while Windows computers seem to have an endless number of hitches in this regard.
[M]y PC might crash playing 2% of games on the market, but if I was to replace it with a Mac I could enjoy 80% of games on the market not working at all.