Steam Question With Civ CD Key

knowlesy · 8 Jun 2011 at 09:52

Hey all,

Ive checked the steam site for allowed cd keys and Civ 5 is supported. Now I know of a deal in a "ye-old" high street store and it is very cheap compared to steams price now Im wondering if I register the CD key and download Civ via steam, whether it will give me both the PC & Mac version so I don't have to cough up the steam price ? or just the PC version .... :confused:

Tombo · 8 Jun 2011 at 10:04

AFAIK games on one are also owned for the other if available on steam, regardless of which is bought.

knowlesy · 8 Jun 2011 at 10:42

on that I will go for it then

if not either way I have boot camp and will give that a blast when I need to

Antar Bolaeisk · 8 Jun 2011 at 10:43

Just make sure it's not second hand otherwise, even if you buy it, it won't be yours.

orderoftheflame · 8 Jun 2011 at 10:55

It's a SteamPlay game according to the store page, so you'll get both Mac and PC versions when you activate the retail copy.

pingwing · 8 Jun 2011 at 12:31

Yeah you get both mac and pc, it runs like a lame, one eyed dog on my 09 mac book pro though

I boot camp it to get a decent game

mountaincow · 8 Jun 2011 at 13:05

As said already the game requires steam to play. I bought the game from another online retailer and so did a friend from another, both confirmed to work as above.

knowlesy · 8 Jun 2011 at 21:20

thans for the update and gutted about it running like a dog i have an mbp 09

but alas ill run it in win 7

either way its downloading now and thanks for your help

pingwing · 8 Jun 2011 at 22:13

Also dont even attempt dx10/11 on bootcamp (im guessing you have the 9600gt too) for some reason it random crashes in that mode, looks just as good in dx9 given you have to run it on medium/low settings...

The port to osx just wasnt well done (a bit rushed and most mods dont translate) which is a shame as 4 worked pretty well (after a while)