I just complained somewhere else. To sum it up:
So yeah. Steam on Mac. Good in theory, but right, now, they don't seem to be able to handle the onslaught. Also what gives Valve? Steam as died two times on me now (new MacBook Pro, so it can't be the machine), it feels sluggish as hell (just like the PC version), won't register official Magic Mouse swipes, has got the horrible Windows menu system (I left Windows behind because of that) and drag and drop results in a complete failure. Well, they might have ported a Windows program to Mac, but so far, that's all what they have done. Their icon looks like s**** since it's bigger than all the other dock icons (the redesign from that one guy only works for a closed app). It uses as much resources as on Windows and doesn't take into consideration an unified cross-program Mac look and feeling. Adding games is pretty much hit and miss, I had to reload the Warcraft folder ten times to finally get the Frozen Throne app to show up. I know such stupid things from my Windows past – it shouldn't happen on Mac. They can be native as much as they like, right now I might just as well run Steam on Windows through BootCamp or Parallels – it would be the same. This doesn't feel like Valve, but maybe it actually does: like a client which is not going to be fixed by a simple redesign and a port to a new platform.
I like the idea of Steam and I love Valve, but right now I'm very disappointed. Steam has not changed over the past year (go away with that friend stuff and what not) and instead of tweaking the experience they have just stuffed it with even more content and functions. Which Steam can't handle the right way. I advocate video games on Mac as often as I can, but I begin to doubt it. Mac games where very limited, true, but at least most of them ran on every Intel Mac without problems. Now with everyone jumping on the bandwagon, we see a platform fragmentation which was until now neither endorsed nor promoted by Apple. A lot of compatibility problems come with that, problems which many Mac users tried to escape from. Oh well, perhaps it will change over the next two weeks. I hope so. But at the moment Steam on Mac is just as good (or bad) as the Windows version.
And some other point: Steam scrolls terrible. It scrolls like a windows program, without any momentum. Sorry again for ranting, but I'm really disappointed.
