So there's No games for Mac?

[Legendsmith]

I beg to differ. There are quite a few games for Mac. GOOD ONES
C&C generals is for Mac, I was quite surprised to find. That's just one of the good games I love on windows and am surprised to find on Mac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Macintosh_games

My questioned is this:
Why aren't these games advertised?
And PLEASE do not post ignorant things like "Macs suck at gaming" because they don't. Also, macs DO have 2 button mice and seriously, who uses the standard windows mouse for gaming anyway?

 

[DarkHourPrince]

As far as I've seen (but this is me being a PC user all my life so forgive me if I state something off) but it seems as if Macs only very recently started becoming a more mainstream product integrated into the everyday people. For a long time, the market was dominated entirely by PC so that's probably why they are not advertised as heavily. As more Mac users start to enter the fray, you may see more advertisements. Another reason for lack of advertisement is that when you look on many game cases for the computer, they usually say "PC/MAC" or at least I know The Sims does. So instead of advertising for both systems, they just advertise the game since it is made compatible for both. That's just my theory and it's coming from a PC user, so feel free to re-educate or shoot me down if I said something odd.

 

[Legendsmith]

As far as I've seen (but this is me being a PC user all my life so forgive me if I state something off) but it seems as if Macs only very recently started becoming a more mainstream product integrated into the everyday people. For a long time, the market was dominated entirely by PC so that's probably why they are not advertised as heavily. As more Mac users start to enter the fray, you may see more advertisements. Another reason for lack of advertisement is that when you look on many game cases for the computer, they usually say "PC/MAC" or at least I know The Sims does. So instead of advertising for both systems, they just advertise the game since it is made compatible for both. That's just my theory and it's coming from a PC user, so feel free to re-educate or shoot me down if I said something odd.

Not really, when I was young, all I had was a mac and I had heaps of games for it. Also, if you read that list there are lots of game right throughout recent gaming history that are for Mac.
There are lots of games where the PC version is advertised, but not the Mac version. It is never mentioned that the game also has a Mac version.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

I liked the way Charlie Brooker critisised Macs for being boring, by saying the same year they released Myst (which, as we all know, is boring) DooM was released for Windows...

...when about a year or so later Marathon was released, which was absolutely incredible.

I actually remember a lot of good games for the Mac we had, I remember I cried when our Zip drive broke.

 

[Zannah]

Because even the people that do advertisments have at least a little pride, and therefore don't work for the pure evil in a can that is Apple.

On a more serious note - the people that Apple aims their products at, as far as I observe, anyway, aren't exactly the same people that game enough so advertizments could pay off. They advertized that Sims was on mac, and they advertize the minigames-fest that is Apps. That's their prime audience, and those people get scared when they see actual games ...

 

[Aeshi]

Every game that matters has been released for Mac.The number of good games for Windows I couldn't just get on OSX can be counted on one hand.

 

[SimuLord]

Steam just showed up for Macs, but the selection when compared to PCs means that now Macs are trying to make the same mistake Bill Gates made in the last few years of his career at Microsoft, namely trying to play follow-the-leader and get away from what makes their particular offering valuable.

I do media production, and there is no substitute for a Mac when creating things like podcasts and video content (GarageBand and Final Cut Pro, respectively).

 

[Petromir]

Steam just showed up for Macs, but the selection when compared to PCs means that now Macs are trying to make the same mistake Bill Gates made in the last few years of his career at Microsoft, namely trying to play follow-the-leader and get away from what makes their particular offering valuable.

I do media production, and there is no substitute for a Mac when creating things like podcasts and video content (GarageBand and Final Cut Pro, respectively).

If it was apple doing it you might have a poitn, but its mearly vlave trying to expand their market.

 

[Quid Plura]

Advertising focuses on the biggest market, which is the PC. Still, they advertise the game, not the platform. (Look up a commercial on Borderlands for example, it just ends with the logos of everything it can be played on)

 

[SimuLord]

Steam just showed up for Macs, but the selection when compared to PCs means that now Macs are trying to make the same mistake Bill Gates made in the last few years of his career at Microsoft, namely trying to play follow-the-leader and get away from what makes their particular offering valuable.

I do media production, and there is no substitute for a Mac when creating things like podcasts and video content (GarageBand and Final Cut Pro, respectively).

If it was apple doing it you might have a poitn, but its mearly vlave trying to expand their market.

Except Apple has an unholy chokehold on anything that comes within 50 miles of their hardware. Valve had to go through the Steve Jobs Proving Ground of Death in order to get Steam on there, which tells me Apple made a conscious decision to address the "hurr durr no gaemz on max" problem.

 

[Petromir]

Steam just showed up for Macs, but the selection when compared to PCs means that now Macs are trying to make the same mistake Bill Gates made in the last few years of his career at Microsoft, namely trying to play follow-the-leader and get away from what makes their particular offering valuable.

I do media production, and there is no substitute for a Mac when creating things like podcasts and video content (GarageBand and Final Cut Pro, respectively).

If it was apple doing it you might have a poitn, but its mearly vlave trying to expand their market.

Except Apple has an unholy chokehold on anything that comes within 50 miles of their hardware. Valve had to go through the Steve Jobs Proving Ground of Death in order to get Steam on there, which tells me Apple made a conscious decision to address the "hurr durr no gaemz on max" problem.

OSX is not the app store. If Apple were applying their rules to steam then it wouldnt be launched, as it follows almost none of the requirements

 

[Cherry Cola]

As far as I've seen (but this is me being a PC user all my life so forgive me if I state something off) but it seems as if Macs only very recently started becoming a more mainstream product integrated into the everyday people. For a long time, the market was dominated entirely by PC so that's probably why they are not advertised as heavily. As more Mac users start to enter the fray, you may see more advertisements. Another reason for lack of advertisement is that when you look on many game cases for the computer, they usually say "PC/MAC" or at least I know The Sims does. So instead of advertising for both systems, they just advertise the game since it is made compatible for both. That's just my theory and it's coming from a PC user, so feel free to re-educate or shoot me down if I said something odd.

Not really, when I was young, all I had was a mac and I had heaps of games for it. Also, if you read that list there are lots of game right throughout recent gaming history that are for Mac.
There are lots of games where the PC version is advertised, but not the Mac version. It is never mentioned that the game also has a Mac version.

I think the "death" of Mac gaming started when Microsoft bought Bungie.

Apple was making Halo with Bungie, but then Microsoft bought Bungie and took the Halo idea.

I have no idea how they got away with that. That must have been a breach of contract.

 

[Limzz]

As far as I've seen (but this is me being a PC user all my life so forgive me if I state something off) but it seems as if Macs only very recently started becoming a more mainstream product integrated into the everyday people. For a long time, the market was dominated entirely by PC so that's probably why they are not advertised as heavily. As more Mac users start to enter the fray, you may see more advertisements. Another reason for lack of advertisement is that when you look on many game cases for the computer, they usually say "PC/MAC" or at least I know The Sims does. So instead of advertising for both systems, they just advertise the game since it is made compatible for both. That's just my theory and it's coming from a PC user, so feel free to re-educate or shoot me down if I said something odd.

It's more like the second time Mac has become mainstream. It used to pretty much be the standard home computer then almost died... until every human being owned roughly 14.7 iPods.

 

[Legendsmith]

As far as I've seen (but this is me being a PC user all my life so forgive me if I state something off) but it seems as if Macs only very recently started becoming a more mainstream product integrated into the everyday people. For a long time, the market was dominated entirely by PC so that's probably why they are not advertised as heavily. As more Mac users start to enter the fray, you may see more advertisements. Another reason for lack of advertisement is that when you look on many game cases for the computer, they usually say "PC/MAC" or at least I know The Sims does. So instead of advertising for both systems, they just advertise the game since it is made compatible for both. That's just my theory and it's coming from a PC user, so feel free to re-educate or shoot me down if I said something odd.

Not really, when I was young, all I had was a mac and I had heaps of games for it. Also, if you read that list there are lots of game right throughout recent gaming history that are for Mac.
There are lots of games where the PC version is advertised, but not the Mac version. It is never mentioned that the game also has a Mac version.

I think the "death" of Mac gaming started when Microsoft bought Bungie.

Apple was making Halo with Bungie, but then Microsoft bought Bungie and took the Halo idea.

I have no idea how they got away with that. That must have been a breach of contract.

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Excuse my while I kill myself

 

[Legendsmith]

Every game that matters has been released for Mac.The number of good games for Windows I couldn't just get on OSX can be counted on one hand.

you can't be bloody serious!

Read the list mate. He's probably not counting ports from consoles as well.