Steam for mac

[Convictfish]

I'm a Mac user and I am not glad for this release whatsoever. For one simple reason.

Steam is Intel-based Macs only.

Once again, I have been fucked over by the games industry. It seems like the only developers who are even aware of the two kinds of Macs is Blizzard, and even then, its a choice between playing their game (for there is only one) and going outside/having a social life.

Steam was supposed to be my ticket into a more casual style of gaming, in half hour blocks, rather than four and a half hour blocks. Instead, its a giant heaping of disappointment.

Valve, I am disappoint.

 

[jtesauro]

I'm a Mac user and I am not glad for this release whatsoever. For one simple reason.

Steam is Intel-based Macs only.

Once again, I have been fucked over by the games industry. It seems like the only developers who are even aware of the two kinds of Macs is Blizzard, and even then, its a choice between playing their game (for there is only one) and going outside/having a social life.

Steam was supposed to be my ticket into a more casual style of gaming, in half hour blocks, rather than four and a half hour blocks. Instead, its a giant heaping of disappointment.

Valve, I am disappoint.

I feel for you here man, I really do, but at the same time, PowerPC machines have been out of development for more than a few years now. Current Apple OS won't run on a non intel, neither will CS5 when it's released, I can't honestly attack Valve for not offering PowerPC support as well as Intel.

It sucks, it really does, but that's software/hardware development. Blizzard's an exception in that they designed their engines to run on significantly less hardware requirements then what you see on alot of more recent PC games and MMO's.

OT: I got the client running on my work laptop yesterday, did a bit of Tales of Monkey Island on the train home. Client itself runs very well. Considering trying Civ 4 next.

 

[Machiavellian007]

I'm a Mac user and I am not glad for this release whatsoever. For one simple reason.

Steam is Intel-based Macs only.

Once again, I have been fucked over by the games industry. It seems like the only developers who are even aware of the two kinds of Macs is Blizzard, and even then, its a choice between playing their game (for there is only one) and going outside/having a social life.

Steam was supposed to be my ticket into a more casual style of gaming, in half hour blocks, rather than four and a half hour blocks. Instead, its a giant heaping of disappointment.

Valve, I am disappoint.

I feel your pain so much. Why the fudging hell can they not port games onto PowerPC Macs!? You know, the Macs that are less open to Windows viruses and spyware, that generally run faster and that are a damn sight cheaper.

I has a rage. A slow, burning rage.

Also, you can choose between the Blizzard game, or, joy of joys, the wonderful games on bigfishgames.com! You know, the games that last for a f*cking hour and a half before I finish them.

There is no middle ground. I either play for an hour and then am bored, or have to play for two months before I finish the damn game.

And this is why I have Playstations.

 

[Trotgar]

I wonder if I'll be able to play KotOR on Mac Steam...

Sadly, it's extremely unlikely that anything old without an existing Mac port will ever get ported. I'd like something like Titan Quest to be able to kill time when I'm away from home, but considering the company that made it doesn't even exist, that's not happening, either.

Umm, the first KotOR is on the mac as well.

OT: I'm quite excited about Steam on the Mac because my only Windows-platform is a bootcamped XP.

 

[Convictfish]

I'm a Mac user and I am not glad for this release whatsoever. For one simple reason.

Steam is Intel-based Macs only.

Once again, I have been fucked over by the games industry. It seems like the only developers who are even aware of the two kinds of Macs is Blizzard, and even then, its a choice between playing their game (for there is only one) and going outside/having a social life.

Steam was supposed to be my ticket into a more casual style of gaming, in half hour blocks, rather than four and a half hour blocks. Instead, its a giant heaping of disappointment.

Valve, I am disappoint.

I feel for you here man, I really do, but at the same time, PowerPC machines have been out of development for more than a few years now. Current Apple OS won't run on a non intel, neither will CS5 when it's released, I can't honestly attack Valve for not offering PowerPC support as well as Intel.

It sucks, it really does, but that's software/hardware development. Blizzard's an exception in that they designed their engines to run on significantly less hardware requirements then what you see on alot of more recent PC games and MMO's.

OT: I got the client running on my work laptop yesterday, did a bit of Tales of Monkey Island on the train home. Client itself runs very well. Considering trying Civ 4 next.

Fair point. But I mean, how hard is it really? Porting to PowerPC can't be too different than porting to Intel. Surely a few more weeks in development and everyone would have been happy.

I'm just a bit cut because it was going to be one of the highlights of my month, and now i feel such terrible disappointment. If Pendulum's new album is no good, then I've got nothing to look forward to for a long time.

On the topic of the only Blizzard game, I've been clean for about four months now and I'm being invited to parties again, so its not all bad.

 

[jtesauro]

I'm a Mac user and I am not glad for this release whatsoever. For one simple reason.

Steam is Intel-based Macs only.

Once again, I have been fucked over by the games industry. It seems like the only developers who are even aware of the two kinds of Macs is Blizzard, and even then, its a choice between playing their game (for there is only one) and going outside/having a social life.

Steam was supposed to be my ticket into a more casual style of gaming, in half hour blocks, rather than four and a half hour blocks. Instead, its a giant heaping of disappointment.

Valve, I am disappoint.

I feel for you here man, I really do, but at the same time, PowerPC machines have been out of development for more than a few years now. Current Apple OS won't run on a non intel, neither will CS5 when it's released, I can't honestly attack Valve for not offering PowerPC support as well as Intel.

It sucks, it really does, but that's software/hardware development. Blizzard's an exception in that they designed their engines to run on significantly less hardware requirements then what you see on alot of more recent PC games and MMO's.

OT: I got the client running on my work laptop yesterday, did a bit of Tales of Monkey Island on the train home. Client itself runs very well. Considering trying Civ 4 next.

Fair point. But I mean, how hard is it really? Porting to PowerPC can't be too different than porting to Intel. Surely a few more weeks in development and everyone would have been happy.

I'm just a bit cut because it was going to be one of the highlights of my month, and now i feel such terrible disappointment. If Pendulum's new album is no good, then I've got nothing to look forward to for a long time.

On the topic of the only Blizzard game, I've been clean for about four months now and I'm being invited to parties again, so its not all bad.

How hard is it really? I don't honestly know. It's hard enough that when CS3 was released, it took Adobe months to release a version that would run natively and use all of the system's specs and not run through virtualization and Rosetta.

I feel like it's one of these situations where it really is just a metric ton of work to assign a team to do for not much return on investment, OR the guys who make these decisions could just be dicks. All we can do here is speculate, but whatever the motivations, it's not a simple thing, and the PowerPC chipset is dead as far as Apple and IBM are concerned.

That said, Good News Everyone - Alpha Protocol comes out the first of the month!

...well, I'm excited.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Umm, the first KotOR is on the mac as well.

Huh. Imagine that. I always thought it wasn't, for some reason, but it looks like Aspyr's been busy. In that case, sign me up, since I grabbed it for $2.50 during some Steam sale or other. The patch for the x86 version seems to still be listed as an "open beta" however many years later, though. That's not encouraging. Heh.