Why is my Mac not compatible with Civilization Beyond Earth

[morganehardy]

I looked at the compatibility of the civ beyond earth game with my mac and I looked at some forums and they stated that it should work with my Mac. My mac is 10.7.5. When I went to install the game is stated that it was not compatible and now I have spent 30 dollars on a game I can't use! what should I do? I tried all of the troubleshooting tricks and they have not helped!

[Zer0]

From the Store page:

MINIMUM:
OS: 10.9.5 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite)

[Z.Ibrahimovic]

Download Windows TP for free by opting into beta participation and install windows on your mac <3.

[SamBC]

If you don't read the minimum requirements, it's not really anyone else's fault that you spent money on a game you can't use. It's not even like that's a particularly difficult requirement to understand (unlike the GPU requirements).

[Z.Ibrahimovic]

Originally posted by SamBC:

If you don't read the minimum requirements, it's not really anyone else's fault that you spent money on a game you can't use. It's not even like that's a particularly difficult requirement to understand (unlike the GPU requirements).

Not anyone's fault?

Steam can check your OS, hardware etc.
It is a choice to not extend it into benefits to users/customers such as warnings upon purchase.

[Veskaida]

Update your computer to Yosemite and that should fix it.

[SamBC]

Originally posted by Z.Ibrahimovic:

Originally posted by SamBC:

If you don't read the minimum requirements, it's not really anyone else's fault that you spent money on a game you can't use. It's not even like that's a particularly difficult requirement to understand (unlike the GPU requirements).

Not anyone's fault?

Steam can check your OS, hardware etc.
It is a choice to not extend it into benefits to users/customers such as warnings upon purchase.

My guess is that they chose not to extend it to requirements at purchase because it couldn't work for most requirements. Plus, if people ignore what's written on the store page, why wouldn't they ignore the warning?

Sure, maybe it might be better, but the information was there.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Originally posted by Z.Ibrahimovic:

Steam can check your OS, hardware etc.
It is a choice to not extend it into benefits to users/customers such as warnings upon purchase.

Complication: you can buy a game on Steam on practically any device with a modern web browser, such as a mobile phone or tablet; and your account may be accessed with multiple machines with different hardware and software setups. Even the same machine may have multiple OSes with Steam -- a Mac box might be triple-booting OSX, Microsoft Windows, and a Linux distribution, for instance.

Then OS is about the only thing that's ~simple to check (it's not simple when you consider Linux variations); hardware and drivers are trickier to determine whether they're actually up to it, since some combinations won't work well.

It's simpler just to leave it to a human's judgment call.

[Zer0]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

Originally posted by Z.Ibrahimovic:

Steam can check your OS, hardware etc.
It is a choice to not extend it into benefits to users/customers such as warnings upon purchase.

Complication: you can buy a game on Steam on practically any device with a modern web browser, such as a mobile phone or tablet; and your account may be accessed with multiple machines with different hardware and software setups. Even the same machine may have multiple OSes with Steam -- a Mac box might be triple-booting OSX, Microsoft Windows, and a Linux distribution, for instance.

Then OS is about the only thing that's ~simple to check (it's not simple when you consider Linux variations); hardware and drivers are trickier to determine whether they're actually up to it, since some combinations won't work well.

It's simpler just to leave it to a human's judgment call.

^ This

Bottom line, it's the responsiblity of the purchaser to check the requirements, not Steam. It's right there on the store page.

[Z.Ibrahimovic]

Why think in complications and not in solutions. I never stated it must make someone unable to perform a purchase because I already mett the limitations of that where the test was wrong.

I know perfectly well what all the requirements mean, but there are enough people to who it is algebra and such a warning is useful for. Consolekiddies switching to PC being unaware of the everlasting PC masaterrace. PC gonna lose them again to some limiting console?
I've been helping a friend last week picking a laptop for video-editing. It must be an Intel as Intel is the best OS and it must be an IPS screen for the best colors and thus musn't be a retina. An HD4000 videocard is better than a 860m as it is an HD man!
Such a person is entirely unable to judge anything by herself and she probably knows it as she would not have asked my help otherwise. For her such a feature on Steam would be great.

There isn't much what is left to do for Steam, but it is a business model and they are not getting forced by law to implement such a feature into the store. Note that functionality and to meet the minimum requirements are two different things. Don't forget that Steam already does the hardware survey for some time and that there are probably plugins on the internet from websites which give a verdict if your specs meet the minimum for a specific game. Neither it is new tech as software and hardware checks are already common for a few decades.

I don't call for something that makes you unable to purchase something as I know very well how limiting the simple checks sometimes are. My old Win2000 printer won't install as newer OS's don't meet the numberrange where the check looks for (luckily patched). As well older tests perform ghz check on only 1 socket. I would prefer a 'thank you but f*ck off' button for my printer and some software, but they made me unable to continue the setup.

[SamBC]

And how many of these people who don't understand the specs will know to ignore the warning when it's appropriate to do so?

[Z.Ibrahimovic]

Same stuff with antivirus taking you away from websites with the option to continue. Information and a lot of clickables to dig info. I guess beyond 99% of all configs can be tested just fine and it looks like you are questioning it's functioning. A lot of websites out there can't even find my second socket on my rig, but Steam does just fine.

Detailed information making known what software or hardware fails tests so people can ask around with that detailed information on the forum what they can do about it or if they can just ignore the warning. Mostly it only happens with rare and new hardware. I would add download links for software and would redirect to a page to sell steam machines and/or single components that do pass requirements.

[Mr Moopsy]

Originally posted by Z.Ibrahimovic:

Same stuff with antivirus taking you away from websites with the option to continue. Information and a lot of clickables to dig info. I guess beyond 99% of all configs can be tested just fine and it looks like you are questioning it's functioning. A lot of websites out there can't even find my second socket on my rig, but Steam does just fine.

Detailed information making known what software or hardware fails tests so people can ask around with that detailed information on the forum what they can do about it or if they can just ignore the warning. Mostly it only happens with rare and new hardware. I would add download links for software and would redirect to a page to sell steam machines and/or single components that do pass requirements.

lol. I cant for the life of me understand stupid people.

First off...anti-virus is the biggest waste of money in existance. Unless you are an idiot and fall for an online loto or Congratulations! you are the 100,000th visitor! advertisment, or click every p0rn link you see...or maybe fall for an email scam...you will be fine.
Browsers offer more than enough security as it is.
that aside.........

I will now start a website just for you! I will let people pay me to tell them their computer is crap and let them buy better computers from me.
I love it.
Take full advantage of the stupid people.
Scare them about buying $60 game and instead get a few hundred out of them.


The day steam starts warning people about how crap their computers are is going to become its own downfall. There are already too many stupid people, this only promotes the behavior even more.

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Next thing we know, your going to cry about putting the wrong gas in your car and needing engine repairs and your tank siphoned.
Let stupid people be stupid. It drives our economy.

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Dear OP.
Just upgrade your computer.... yosmite is free >.>

[SamBC]

Let's keep off the personal attacks, people.

It also seems necessary to remind people that platform wars are not welcome here - posts entirely of that nature have been deleted.