+1 for MAC!

+1 Linux

Oh yay... I'd love me an OSX version, seriously!

eeew, don't get any android on me.

It's a bit sad that with the revolution is happening on gaming world, you're still "evaluating other platforms". I'm a GalCiv franchise enthusiast but I played GalCiv2 only and entirely on linux through wine. But now times are changing and you can't ask me to do the same with GC3. So if you want one more customer, with respect, stop evaluating and start planning.

Any non-Windows version, whether for Mac or Linux or Android or iOS or PlayStation 4 or Wii U, would have to make a break from DirectX.  Those are all OpenGL platforms, and since Windows is also capable of running OpenGL, seems now would be a great opportunity for Stardock to embrace OpenGL to improve portability rather than painting themselves into a corner with DirectX.

Well, hopefully they can successfully translate from DirectX to OpenGL, because I don't know that Wine can handle DX10 or 11 that well, if at all.  Which means GalCiv 3 could be truly Windows locked.  I also wonder why developers insist on locking themselves into one platform like that when there are so many other eager gamers on other platform that would love to buy games like this.  A Mac version (and Linux, too) should be a no-brainer at this point in time.  Even iOS and Android should be possible; this kind of game is a natural for tablet interfaces.

Like many Mac/Linux users, I rely on Wine for a lot of my gaming, which is fine for older games.  But I'm done dual-booting; I don't even have a bootcamp partition anymore.  If Stardock doesn't release a Mac version of GalCiv 3, then I'll move on to other games.  But I really, really hope they do.  Endless Space was a nice try, but I'm still waiting for the perfect 4X space game to come along and fill the MoO-shaped void in my life.

We're not a majority, but we are significant.  I read an interview recently where a developer said they increased their sales by 10% simply by making their game available on Steam for Linux, and the Humble Bundles gets huge support from Linux gamers who regularly account for 10 to 25% of sales, often pushing OSX purchases into third place.

In other words, it is worth the effort for a developer to port their game to other platforms besides Windows.

"Hrm, lets see... it'll take me a year to release this game with DirectX.  If I go with OpenGL, it'll take me months to learn OpenGL, then a year to code it...  or maybe longer, since I don't know OpenGL that well.  And most serious gamers use windows, so it's not like I"ll be gaining a lot of market share by going with the less programmer-friendly technology..."

Point made?  They already know DirectX, they don't know OpenGL.  And since most serious gamers already have a windows box...

If you read my post carefully, I said that learning OpenGL would require a few months investment in time.  And I'm not implying: I'm outright stating that OpenGL and DirectX are both hard to learn, complicated, and require very different handling.  I should know... I've worked with both.

Ultimately its up to each dev to decide whether the investment into OpenGL is worth it. How much does it cost to re-tool everything to OpenGL vs the increased revenue. Most data up until this point have been from small devs that paid fairly little money to do the retool which meant that there was veyr little risk involved in 'trying' it. Then there's lost opportunity cost of doing the OpenGL implementation instead of other things that actually have to get done.

Going purely digital seems to make sense for GalCiv3. Other platforms, to me seems a bit iffy given the cost vs benfits.

+1 for Surface RT/2 ARM Tablets. (I know, its a long reach. But playing GalCiv2 on my Surface Pro just makes me realize how a game like this could transform the tablet gaming market.)