Tirea

Honestly I don't really know if this is going to happen... If you bought the game through Steam you will surely get the new Mac version! EA will definitely upload the Mac Version to Origin so that you can buy it there and maybe you will be able to enter your CD serial in Origin to get the digital version of SimCity 4 for both Mac and PC. It would make sense since EA is doing this with the new SimCity, Spore, Sims 3, etc.

After running the Windows Version of SimCity in bootcamp, on my 2013 MacPro and the new Mac AppStore Version on my Retina MacBook Pro, I have to say the new Mac Version is faster at loading and overall seems smoother than the Windows Version. As for the Code it's definitely optimized for the newer OS X Versions and performance really benefits from that! The only thing I'm missing support for the Retina resolution, but that's just me... Seeing that EA asked Aspyr to create a native new(!) Mac Version for one of their games is great news and I hope they are doing this for all of there new games to come. After that Sims 3 Cider Port Failure... I'm just so happy to finally play SimCity native on my Macs again!

I believe you won't. :/ The Mac version is distributed by Aspyr Media, while the Steam version is distributed by EA Games. I highly doubt this would happen. Good point, that kinda sucks. I'll probably buy it again (3rd time) at some point if the performance enhancements are good. Well... the announcement clearly says "Customers may purchase the game now exclusively through Apple’s Mac App Store, and the game will join Steam and other Mac digital outlets in coming weeks." So just wait it will surely come to Steam!

1. Is there a mod that cuts the upkeep of some building in half? 2. Can you somehow change the limit of MegaTowers? I would LOVE to build a city just with MegaTowers! EDIT: As it turned out... you can use Cheat Engine to reset the limit so that's okay with me!