# Galactic Civ 3 announced! The king is back, baby. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 15, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galactic-civ-3-announced-the-king-is-back-baby/671335 "2013-10-15T18:53:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galactic-civ-3-announced-the-king-is-back-baby/671335/21 "2013-10-18T01:04:34Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Well you should have asked rather than just trying to dis me. If you had, I’d have told you that I’ve been having an email correspondence with Sean Drohan, the support mgr at Stardock about this. I always email game devs and ask them if they plan to release a Mac client and if not, why not. > > I used to do it with Steam as well, and you’ll notice that in the last year or so they’ve really upped the number of Mac OS games they have. > > Now can we end this pointless attempt to discuss my OS and my gaming habits and my gaming system? Thanks in advance for agreeing. Hey, no dis intended. You’ve got to admit, though, that your first two posts in this thread look like you’re merely lamenting the lack of Mac version, and your third post makes it seem like you think your second post will, by itself, help convince developers to make a Mac version. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galactic-civ-3-announced-the-king-is-back-baby/671335/22 "2013-10-24T20:57:47Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > DAMMIT! I just realized they aren’t gonna make it for Mac. I’m out. Yeah, same here, and I’m disappointed. I have GalCiv2 on Steam, but am currently using a Mac because my Windows laptop is not dying…when it takes a solid 15 minutes to boot up in the morning, there’s a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galactic-civ-3-announced-the-king-is-back-baby/671335/23 "2013-10-24T21:17:59Z")
> [@Interrobang](#): > > Yeah, same here, and I’m disappointed. I have GalCiv2 on Steam, but am currently using a Mac because my Windows laptop is not dying…when it takes a solid 15 minutes to boot up in the morning, there’s a problem. It’s apparently using a new, modern gaming engine by some fo the designers of Civ V. DX11+ 64 bit. If they can’t achieve feature parity with Whatever OpenGL version Apple supports, that’s going to spell trouble for this and future games. Might want to ask Apple what’s up. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galactic-civ-3-announced-the-king-is-back-baby/671335/24 "2017-01-27T15:37:27Z")
I see this is on sale this weekend, and it has been on my wish list for a while. Is it any good? ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galactic-civ-3-announced-the-king-is-back-baby/671335/25 "2017-01-27T16:54:08Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > I see this is on sale this weekend, and it has been on my wish list for a while. Is it any good? A new update just went up they are calling 2.0. It’s supposed to change a lot of things, and reports so far say it’s good. But I haven’t played the new update yet, and haven’t played the game basically since Stellaris came out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galactic-civ-3-announced-the-king-is-back-baby/671335.md?page=1)