I think the major complaint here is that Apple is not competing with Steam. In fact, their offer is not what I would call "competitive" at all. It sucks.
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'Call of Duty 4' and 'Civilization IV: Colonization' Hit the Mac App Store
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I think the major complaint here is that Apple is not competing with Steam. In fact, their offer is not what I would call "competitive" at all. It sucks.
You have a piece of crap CPU. I have less ram and only have 470 SLI and can run it at 60 fps easily with everything maxed out (at 1080p).
$49.99 for a game that came out 2+ years ago? I guess they're following their hardware philosophy; charging people out the rea end.
so for all you whiners out there...who cant get cod bo on your mac...download the parallels and stop whining...or if you are complaining about the virtualization slowing things down, get a mac pro, download parallels, then stop whining. 
Given the lag in GPU's in Macs vs. PC, this makes total sense. A two year old PC game is pretty 'modern' with the current shipping Macs.
so for all you whiners out there...who cant get cod bo on your mac...download the parallels and stop whining...or if you are complaining about the virtualization slowing things down, get a mac pro, download parallels, then stop whining.
Perfect solution, buy a 3K computer to do what a 1.5K Windows computer can do. This is exactly why we need a headless Mac (e.g. iMac w/o the screen + PCI slots). If a mainstream Mac computer existed that could take PCI graphics cards, the price would go down and the selection would go up.
They are suckers though. I was in an Apple Store in december and some dude bought a copy of civilization 4 which didn't include colonization for something like $60. It was $6.20 on steam at the time for mac and windows. WTF.
Aspyr ports and sells hardware?! Why did no one tell me?!
Yeah, I remember back when there were cheap G4 towers that you could expand and we definatey didn't have the problem of no selection of graphics cards. All the graphics cards were also priced the same as the respective PC versions. And all the games had launch ports! Puppies also cured cancer back then too, before Chuck Norris.
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But I thought APPLES weren't for gaming! [/s]
That's great and all, but can it run Crysis? *obligatory wink*
Maybe the next shipment of Macbooks would have gaming standards
Despite obvious violation of App Store terms
Call of Duty 4 is written for windows and DirectX. It's then wrapped inside Transgaming's Cider virtualization engine, which maps directx and win32 calls to OpenGL and OS X, introducing CPU overhead and often loss of fidelity (e.g. pixel shaders).
Good to see Apple pawning cheap windows ports on their app store. And from its success, it sounds like consumers are eagerly shelling out $$ for degraded gameplay.
Call of Duty 4 is written for windows and DirectX. It's then wrapped inside Transgaming's Cider virtualization engine, which maps directx and win32 calls to OpenGL and OS X, introducing CPU overhead and often loss of fidelity (e.g. pixel shaders).
Good to see Apple pawning cheap windows ports on their app store. And from its success, it sounds like consumers are eagerly shelling out $$ for degraded gameplay.
Anybody know how Call of Duty would run on a current 15 inch i5 macbook pro with 4gb ram? What about on my 1920x1080 monitor? I had some issues playing Call of duty 1 through windows on the same machine, very laggy and almost unplayable on med/low settings. Is that the computer, or something wrong with drivers/windows?
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-Clay
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-Clay
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Not sure why everyone is hating on Apple for "interfering" with Steam. Microsoft will soon be doing the same thing when they come out with their App Store. Actually, with GFWL they've already been doing it.
Not sure why everyone is hating on Apple for "interfering" with Steam. Microsoft will soon be doing the same thing when they come out with their App Store. Actually, with GFWL they've already been doing it.
See there one problem with stream or steam what every you call it.. YOU NEED TO BE ONLINE ALL THE TIME.. So if I have my laptop and there is no internet then I can not play my games.. At least when I download a game from app store or some where else, I can play without needing internet to play it..
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I'm afraid CoD 4 is not allowed in the civilised world.
Unrelated,
I think the OP is wrong regarding Amazon being a better deal for the makers than the App store. The makers of the game get much less than 70% from a sale on Amazon AND they have to make and ship physical media. So online dist is a win-win, just like for the record companies, AND they're killing the 2nd hand market.
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Greed?
which is of course one of the seven deadly sins which in turn means that the makers of this 1st person shooter probably won't make it into Heaven.
This is simply not true. In general, you do not need to be online to play your Steam games. In the cases in which an online connection is required to play, it is a DRM issue, not a Steam issue... ie you would need to be online to play the game whether you purchased it through Steam or installed it from a disk.
That is true, Steam will run perfectly offline, until it decides not to.
either to check for updates or sometimes it will just try to go online and won't let you do anything until you are able to go online.
Due to my work I can't go online for weeks at a time, It sucks when suddenly I can't play anything because Steam is having a bad day.
Explain how I play my Steam bought Civilization IV/Colonization games without being online then ?
There's one problem with your post : You have no clue what you're talking about. The Steam client can start in offline mode and you can play all your games offline, barring any kind of DRM that would require an online connection in the game itself.
That is true, Steam will run perfectly offline, until it decides not to.
either to check for updates or sometimes it will just try to go online and won't let you do anything until you are able to go online.
Never happened to me.
You are not really missing anything. There are better media streamers than ATV and there are definitely better gaming computers/games than Macs.