A what distribution?
Thank you.
Yes, I've heard of them. Good ideas, poorly implemented, and wasted on the wrong operating system.
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Mac App Store Turns One Year Old, Aspyr Shares Numbers
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A what distribution?
Thank you.
Yes, I've heard of them. Good ideas, poorly implemented, and wasted on the wrong operating system.
It's more about working on both my Windows PC and OS X machines. Steam Cloud is another big plus too (pick up where I left off on another machine).
That alone is worth launching Steam for me personally.
Oh I see. It would be great if MAS would save app data/preferences in the cloud.
No, it doesn't. And Aspyr is a Mac porting house, they don't make games, only port existing ones.
Hmmm. LTD - let me ask you. What is your total experience with Ubuntu and Synaptic? Are you basing your opinions on articles you read/3rd party experience or hands-on practical knowledge?
Why do you say they are wasted on the wrong operating system. Please define "wrong."
Oh - and while you're at it - please define how they were "poorly" implemented.
Thanks - I look forward to your insight.
Great job Aspyr.
I have already purchased a number of their titles on the Mac App store and hope they keep on coming!
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Lack of success = Poorly implemented.
If developers can't make money off a platform, then I'd say its poorly implemented.
I have already purchased a number of their titles on the Mac App store and hope they keep on coming!
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Lack of success = Poorly implemented.
If developers can't make money off a platform, then I'd say its poorly implemented.
A Linux Distribution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
Have you actually tried using it before stating that?
Agreed to both points! I'm sure they'll come at one point though.
But what I really want to see Game Center on the Mac. It would be the next logical step to approaching what Steam already does.
Apps from the Mac App store can utilise iCloud in the same way iOS apps can, Just not many developers have bothered to implement it.
iA Writer has great iCloud support across both platforms for example.
I'd love to see game centre get an overhaul including mac support and some sort of community support like forums. OpenFeint had the feature list right but the interface was a mess.
From March 2004 to February 2006. And we've got a fairly recent Ubuntu installation (Lucid) in the family as well, maintained by yours truly.
Happy birthday MAS. In 5 months of using you, I've only downloaded 10 apps, but I'm sure other users can top that
Yea, same here. An overhaul of Game Center would be welcomed.
Also, once they've integrated iChat and iMessage in Lion, they could even tie iMessage in to Game Center so you'd have chat right there. It would also be nice if iMessage could also display what game you currently are playing and to let other players join in your game via drop down menu from your status (much like Steam currently), just like how you can display what iTunes song you're currently playing on iChat, and it will take the other person directly to the iTunes store.
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Happy birthday mac app store..im sure it will continue its success.
Happy birthday mac app store..im sure it will continue its success.
If we are talking solely about games, I would go with Steam regardless. You get the sales, matchmaking, and not to mention it works just fine on Windows.
Fair enough, I did know about the offline mode but never used it. However it still doesn't change the fact that for any online play it requires you to be connected to Steam. My point (which obviously wasn't written) was the MAS doesn't require you to be connected to it for any online use of the games/software you bought, Steam does. If I'm still wrong feel free to correct me.
I absolutely agree. I always visit the developers website and, luckily, many of them offer trial versions. However, there is another factor that has an impact on my purchasing behaviour: the lack of reviews in smaller MAS. Many apps have either not been purchased or reviewed by other customers, which makes it less compelling to give it a shot. Considering that there really are some rubbish apps out there, I am not really inclined to spend many on an app that I cannot test before or has not been reviewed by others. Apple could just add a global ranking too, to make it more exact right away.
Steam (in that case) is acting like GameCenter (which the Mac doesn't have). So the comparison may not be fair.
Forgive me if I'm missing something but for online use of games, you need to be online so the fact you're online means you'll be able to connect to steam anyway? (Writing that did my head in a little...
)30% is better than any brick and mortar store will take from you. Dealing with online transaction and bandwidth overages and multiple downloads and security will cost you at least 30%.
Kagi only handles the transaction portion and when I was looking at them it was costing me 6% but with all of these clauses.
False again. Thats only required if that specific title exclusively utilizes Steam matchmaking, which many do not.