hpoom » civilization http://www.hpoom.co.uk The personal and technical blog of Simon Wood Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:05:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 And now, I buy Civilization IV… for the Mac http://www.hpoom.co.uk/2007/07/and-now-i-buy-civilization-iv-for-the-mac/ http://www.hpoom.co.uk/2007/07/and-now-i-buy-civilization-iv-for-the-mac/#comments Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:25:59 +0000 mhogben http://www.hpoom.co.uk/viewPost/74/And-now-I-buy-Civilization-IV-for-the-Mac.htm Cheaper on the PC, possibly even less buggy.

So why, especially given my past posting on the “death” of OS X, would I buy this game on the Mac?

I have a shiny, relatively new, PC that plays all games I could ever dream of (I just acquired Outrun 2006 on it, because they don’t provide an Xbox 360 version, damn them!!! I even bought a *cabled* 360 controller – i.e. PC compatible – just to play things like this… oh, and Geometry Wars ;)

The truth is, that if companies actually went to the trouble of releasing a Mac version of games at the same time as the Windows counterparts, I would never – yep, never – have bought a PC at all. Not even for work.

As I was deciding which version of Civ IV to get (after months of procrastination, I might add), I was as surprised as anyone that I decided to pay *more* – for the Mac version.

This implies that there should surely be huge market for anything better than the damn Windows platform, and the lumbering monster that is Vista. Oh yes, Vista… I know a bit about this. Not only do I have it here at home, but I am in actual fact – and I was told this by my “masters” – the bone fid?

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