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Valve teases Mac Announcement
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OMG FFS GET OUT TO THE MAC FORUM LOL.
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Wonder if the reason they're taking so long with Episode 3 is that they're porting the Source engine over to the mac os....
Would make sense for them to have their distribution platform in place and ready to go if this were the case.
Now all they need to do is sort out their Euro prices.
Would make sense for them to have their distribution platform in place and ready to go if this were the case.
Now all they need to do is sort out their Euro prices.
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Well it was a decision on whether to put in the Games forum or the Mac forum - I still think it deserves to be in the Games forum - but feel free to move it if you feel differently (Dons
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Should be amusing, most of the die hard mac fans seem to think their cute little machines are "serious machines not for gaming!!!!!11", now im assuming all of a sudden games will suddenly matter now that they have more than 3.
That's what I thought. Years ago Valve were all for developing for Mac, but I believe the the people at Apple who develop the Mac OS where less than enthusiastic about it. So it never happened.
Not sure...many Steam games work in Wine for Linux through a bit of cheeky coding; perhaps with Steam's help they can use a similar technique to get everything running reasonably smoothly on Macs...
Windows games can be played on a Mac with either Wine (For basic ones) or Crossover Mac for the more recent "blockbusters".
Personally, I think this announcement is about Steam platform for the Mac, and nothing to do with any of the existing games on the service. I think Valve is gearing up for a release of a few of their games (Either old or new) on both Windows and Mac over Steam as an experiment to see whether releasing Mac games alongside Windows games is worth their bother.
It could be Half-Life 3 (Explaining why it's taking so long), or it could be another project of theirs (Portal 2? New Counter-Strike?), or maybe just a port of one of their existing games.
I think what they'll then do is release their sales figures and numbers to their publishing partners (EA, Activision, THQ, etc) in order to demonstrate whether or not Mac games can work, because as it stands publishers/developers are too afraid to develop for Mac due to no guarantee of return on investment.
Personally, I think this announcement is about Steam platform for the Mac, and nothing to do with any of the existing games on the service. I think Valve is gearing up for a release of a few of their games (Either old or new) on both Windows and Mac over Steam as an experiment to see whether releasing Mac games alongside Windows games is worth their bother.
It could be Half-Life 3 (Explaining why it's taking so long), or it could be another project of theirs (Portal 2? New Counter-Strike?), or maybe just a port of one of their existing games.
I think what they'll then do is release their sales figures and numbers to their publishing partners (EA, Activision, THQ, etc) in order to demonstrate whether or not Mac games can work, because as it stands publishers/developers are too afraid to develop for Mac due to no guarantee of return on investment.
Okay here's what I think of this...
Personally, I feel that Valve are going to release the Steam client available on the mac and all Valve games (Half Life/Team Fortress/Left 4 Dead/Counter Strike etc.) will be made available.
They will likely give the option to the developer of other games whether or not to allow a mac version of their game(s) to be released through Steam. If there isn't a mac version available (therefore the game isn't supported) - it will likely be greyed out or a message will appear when you try and execute it saying "Game not supported on this Operating System".
Personally, I feel that Valve are going to release the Steam client available on the mac and all Valve games (Half Life/Team Fortress/Left 4 Dead/Counter Strike etc.) will be made available.
They will likely give the option to the developer of other games whether or not to allow a mac version of their game(s) to be released through Steam. If there isn't a mac version available (therefore the game isn't supported) - it will likely be greyed out or a message will appear when you try and execute it saying "Game not supported on this Operating System".
As someone who has used Macs for a fair number of years and for a number of uses (professionally, education, general use) and just went 'meh, I'll just stick my windows that you very much' I really couldn't be fussed.
But as a normal person, seeing one of the major pillars of pc (win) gaming today giving support for pc (mac) gaming can, generally speaking, only be a good thing.
But still couldnt be fussed and think proper linux support would be better.
EDIT: also as Marky says about catalog support ^^^
But as a normal person, seeing one of the major pillars of pc (win) gaming today giving support for pc (mac) gaming can, generally speaking, only be a good thing.
But still couldnt be fussed and think proper linux support would be better.
EDIT: also as Marky says about catalog support ^^^
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If this is the reason Episode 3 has taken so ******* long then I am going to be annoyed.
