Valve Announces Steam and Source for Mac

[Jonny49]

That's great Valve...that's great. Now, about that PS3 development...

 

[bawkbawkboo1]

So it's official... Unfortunately my only intel mac doesn't have a legitimate GPU so I can't play, but this is still awesome because I might upgrade eventually.

 

[Ninjamedic]

Okay valve this PS3 boycott is taking the piss now, am I the only one on this site still wanting to slit gabe newell's throat?.

Anyway I hate steam and its forced digital distribution so the mac port won't help me.

I own a good pc but im with ya!

So do I but i don't have a 2 million MB connection so I can't play new PC games.

 

[fix-the-spade]

NOoOOOOOO! This is a total disaster!

How am I ever going to get any work done now?

 

[PxDn Ninja]

Nice, and I'm planning on picking up a Macbook in the next couple of weeks.

 

[DaxStrife]

Meh, I'm a "PC Elitist" and I don't have a problem with this. All I care about is that it doesn't affect the development time of Portal 2 and Episode 3 (STILL in limbo, I may add).

 

[A random person]

Even though I'm for extending availability of games and this is a step in the right direction, I have one question: why didn't you add Linux compatibility, Valve? The main issue I have with Ubuntu right now is that Steam doesn't seem to work even with Wine, and as an open source fanboy in training I'm sorely disappointed.
/party-pooping

 

[Woodsey]

Okay valve this PS3 boycott is taking the piss now, am I the only one on this site still wanting to slit gabe newell's throat?.

Anyway I hate steam and its forced digital distribution so the mac port won't help me.

They said they'll probably look into developing for it soon.

OT: "third-party titles will undoubtedly follow suit."

Why?

I wouldn't hold your breath.

 

[Heart of Darkness]

More people = more sales.

More coding = longer development time.

And now, add three months onto the already notoriously long Valve Time, and we now have Double Valve Time. (That's double as in mathematics, not music...)

 

[Rathy]

I love that this is finally official. I can get around to deleting my boot camp partition now.

 

[Ninjamedic]

Okay valve this PS3 boycott is taking the piss now, am I the only one on this site still wanting to slit gabe newell's throat?.

Anyway I hate steam and its forced digital distribution so the mac port won't help me.

They said they'll probably look into developing for it soon.

OT: "third-party titles will undoubtedly follow suit."

Why?

I wouldn't hold your breath.

If I dont get L4D, I will impale newell on the dublin spire.

Now I need more happy pills.

 

[Denizen]

Good thing for Valve. Don't see a problem with Macs getting any games especially if it is Valve leading the movement. I am a long time PC user but I remember fondly of oldschool Mac games on the old school mac. Glad to see this happen. Thank you Valve for being "teh awwzzumm."

 

[sirdanrhodes]

I am a wee tad concerned. As a Windows gamer, if a game runs sluggish for me, I just give my PC a new part, but what about if the game runs a bit naf on Mac?

I think gaming on a Mac would work if you could actually get the individual upgrades*, not an entire new unit.

*Yes, I am aware there are upgrades, but those are straight from Apple. They are not as cheap as they are for the PC.

 

[Jandau]

I am a wee tad concerned. As a Windows gamer, if a game runs sluggish for me, I just give my PC a new part, but what about if the game runs a bit naf on Mac?

I think gaming on a Mac would work if you could actually get the individual upgrades*, not an entire new unit.

*Yes, I am aware there are upgrades, but those are straight from Apple. They are not as cheap as they are for the PC.

One could argue that since Macs have a much smaller array of potential hardware configurations it shouldn't be a problem to make sure it works on all of them.

 

[Flames66]

What is wrong with that? MACs are Personal Computers as well. Maybe this will take some money from Microsoft.

 

[Ghonzor]

Finally, it's about time Macs get some decent games.

 

[Woodsey]

Okay valve this PS3 boycott is taking the piss now, am I the only one on this site still wanting to slit gabe newell's throat?.

Anyway I hate steam and its forced digital distribution so the mac port won't help me.

They said they'll probably look into developing for it soon.

OT: "third-party titles will undoubtedly follow suit."

Why?

I wouldn't hold your breath.

If I dont get L4D, I will impale newell on the dublin spire.

Now I need more happy pills.

Ahh, brutal violence.

Is there a problem it can't be applied to as a solution?

 

[Ninjamedic]

Okay valve this PS3 boycott is taking the piss now, am I the only one on this site still wanting to slit gabe newell's throat?.

Anyway I hate steam and its forced digital distribution so the mac port won't help me.

They said they'll probably look into developing for it soon.

OT: "third-party titles will undoubtedly follow suit."

Why?

I wouldn't hold your breath.

If I dont get L4D, I will impale newell on the dublin spire.

Now I need more happy pills.

Ahh, brutal violence.

Is there a problem it can't be applied to as a solution?

Well, when we stand against the argument that videogames cause violence...
Also, Ill set fire to him as well.
Off topic: Congrats on the support of the petition.

 

[ygetoff]

This makes me happy. Very happy.