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By: the rocr

the rocr — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:50:32 +0000

And, the Steam version appears to be out:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43282/civilization-v%3A-gods-%26-kings

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By: Stefan Hagen

Stefan Hagen — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:03:11 +0000

Thomas, it’s in the mac app-store. No need for steam, just download and play on your mac.

By: Thomas Hart

Thomas Hart — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:38:51 +0000

Never mind. It’s Windows & requires Steam.

Not worth the effort till they do a true Mac version.

By: Thomas Hart

Thomas Hart — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:32:26 +0000

Your reply was rude, abusive, and non-responsive.

I’ve played the Civ games since 1999, and enjoyed most of them. (I would not say I love any game for philosophical reasons, because love is something only given to people, God, or possibly animals.)

Civ V is not a good game. The SDK is non-operative for the Mac, and on Windows requires the installation of additional software. Steam is there mainly for the DRM, and does little to enhance the game play. It becomes non-operative under certain conditions, including running a web server, such as Apache.

I have not seen a Mac version of the Gods and Kings expansion pack listed on Amazon.

Is the pack Windows only, or does it run on OS X in native mode?

Does it integrate with Civ V without requiring the use of Steam, or does it require Steam?

Those are the relevant questions, and some kind of information about that should have been included in your original article.

By: the rocr

the rocr — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:59:51 +0000

It’s a great game beloved by many. You’re not among that number, so keep don’t spend the money. Besides, the expansion pack special price was one day only…

By: Thomas Hart

Thomas Hart — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:09:29 +0000

Is this expansion still dependent on Steam?

I broke down and bought Civ V after Christmas, and was enormously disappointed in it. One thing that is most annoying is that Steam dependency. I installed Lion Server turned on the web server around February and now Steam won’t run, which means that I can’t run Civ V.

If Civ V is run under Windows using Parallels or Fusion that problem can probably be bypassed, as can the lack of an SDK, but the game then slows down.

Civ V was an enormous disappointment to me. I’m afraid that I regret spending my money on it. So will the expansion pack be any better?