Same for me with Obduction! I only made it through the third puzzle, but it’s more rewarding to watch someone play it who knows how to do everything. The phrase that comes to mind is “planetary engineering”.
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Same for me with Obduction! I only made it through the third puzzle, but it’s more rewarding to watch someone play it who knows how to do everything. The phrase that comes to mind is “planetary engineering”.
Well, this would be the launch deal for Valheim, on MacOS.
It’s great that Apple is putting games on sale twice now, because they used to never have sales at all!
So, two separate MAS sales in the past months translates into “Apple still hates gaming”, after decades of offering nothing.
Are you new to Mac/Apple news? If so, I could kind of understand where you’re coming from with your thoughts. Stubbornness and reluctance goes both ways in corporations, so there’s that.
I believe it was about 6 years ago, Apple and Valve did have a good working relationship. Apple had asked Valve for advice on how to get their hardware/software more gamer friendly… but we know how that worked out.
Apple tends to be super slow on the software side, while their hardware guys are now cranking out some amazing tech, when before hardware was lack luster cause they had to wait on Intel and didn’t want to put proper desktop case GPUs in their desktops.
Apple tends to be super slow on the software side, while their hardware guys are now cranking out some amazing tech, when before hardware was lack luster cause they had to wait on Intel and didn’t want to put proper desktop case GPUs in their desktops.
Ikr.. Idk why anyone would buy from the Mac app store when they could buy from steam. Genuinely curious, if anyone knows please comment.
Patiently awaiting the Riven remake. I will probably get it on steam but might consider the App Store. I bought the Myst remake for Mac, and iOS so I will probably do the same for Riven. Such great games that I've played since I was a kid.
I checked out Steam this morning and didn't find a sale going on.
The same people who think this is a "sale" are the same people that game on Macs 🤣
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Was thinking similar. I can get it on Steam where I can play it on my Mac OR my Windows computer. Or I can get it on the Mac App Store and deal with their terrible interface and be stuck on only the Mac.
I guess if I had only a Mac and nothing else it would make sense. Maybe. But Steam is still better for games.
Just one example, on Steam I can control and see download speed. On the MAS I get...that download indicator circle. That's it.
Yep. Is this a bunch of devs responding to sales on other platforms or is this Apple? Apple can’t just put stuff on sale. This isn’t a store really.
Many are like thank you Apple for this sale. If that’s true where’s YouTube and the like for Vision Pro? If Apple can make this “sale” happen then that is why it’s on them for a crappy vision os store.
Need chatgpt? Apple made it happen. Money didn’t even change hands according to sources.
Maybe Apple thought they didn’t need Netflix or Google on avp. But then you see them abandoning avp 2. Must be the high price they think. Couldn’t have anything to do with Apple not doing much to breathe any life into it.
Unfortunately although you can run Mac App Store games from an external drive you have to move them back to the internal drive for updates. Otherwise App Store doesn't detect them on the external drive. So is the case with RE 4 for example. I haven't tried if cloud save works when a game is on external drive.
Yeah about that. I’m not new to Mac/Apple news and follow as closely as I can. But, I rarely see any sale on Mac App Store of any sort, and I believe many will share the same sentiment with me on this one.
If Apple doesn’t hate gaming, we’d see way more enthusiasm in the gaming world: more ports, more support, better support, more promotion etc.
Gosh, that is really stupid. Would have never guessed that's the case.
Yeah, it's like all the apps bundled with macOS. They shouldn't be moved to external drive.
You’ll need to offer more than just your repeated claim to fortify that. I’m confident, though, that you’ll be able to provide some evidence or links to that effect.
It’s just that your conditions for what would make things better seem vague and arbitrary.
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Yeah haha. I loved it, despite some corny scenes and dialog. It was sooo weird in a trippy “wtf Kojima??” sort of way.
I do. Occasionally I play only iPhone, 1 or maybe 2 games. That said, I don't play a lot of games.
Does anyone game solely on their PC? I don't really see the point of native Windows games unless you don't have any other gaming platform. You could play most of these games (plus hundreds more) via GeForce Now, Xbox cloud gaming, Playstation Remote Play etc right on your PC.