Civ V on its way this year

[Schmunkel98]

I'll get Civ 5 on Steam as it also gives the possibility of being to play the game on the mac at no extra cost when it becomes avaliable like they did with Civ 4.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't that mean no offline play then if you order it via Steam? I mention this since this is one of the few games I would like to have the ability to play offline. Also, I haven't fired up Civ 4 in a while, but the pitboss feature was another nice addon that did not work correctly with the Steam version. That one allowed you to essentially have your own Civ server where other teammates could hop on and off to do their turns as needed.