Apples were ”released” about 10 000 years ago. You should stop eating them then? Although they’ve been updated countless times with rich content. The game is nothing like it was and they keep releasing updates and new DLC all the time free of charge. I take a good ”old” game anytime over a new bad release. Heard of Redfall? or Gollum? Or SW Jedi Sutvivor without decent performance even on a top-tier PC with 4090? The list is long.
Despite several new tiles like Snowrunner and Dragonheir with MetalFX, Fort solis and Layers of Fear on UE 5 with MetalFX, No Man’s Sky, Grid Legends, The Medium and Elex II coming to mention a few suddenly all realism is thrown out of the window and people expect to see all the latest AAA games on Mac, a platform having only 2.5% share on Steam. A wise PC gamer and developer considering to change to consoles because of the bad buggy state of PC gaming described it well, ”Devs aren't treating us Windows gamers with enough respect so it shouldn't shock people that they don't care about Macs either. If they treat us Windows gamers this bad, why do people get so shocked repeatedly about just ignoring macOS entirely?”.
People also blame Mac games like RE Village for being old, but are quick to point out the absence of even older games like Cyberpunk and Red Dead Redemption 2 on Mac. So according to that logic we should never have those old games on Mac either. They talk about compromises and late releases on Mac and brag about day-and-date releases on PC but it’s all fine when they have to wait months for solid patches and fixes when their favorite game turns out to be garbage. Suddenly that’s not compromising and not a part of the realism in the PC gaming world, because there is always another upcoming title that hopefully will be good but could as well be the next failed release. It’s a kind of hypocrisy we could all live without.
I have always thought this is a weird logic in my encounters with many around this forum and elsewhere. People first complain they can’t play ancient 32-bit games on Mac, like the 16-year-old Team Fortress as if that’s all they do and all that matters. At the same time they say they can’t play new AAA games on Mac, as if that’s all they do and all that matters.
Then when new games come to Mac, even AAA titles, they laugh and say Mac only gets old games, like they say about RE Village and NMS. Then when devs update their old 32-bit games to AS like Aspyr is doing they laugh again and say Mac only gets old games and playing old goodies is nothing to cheer about. The same people who first wanted to play old 32-bit games.
Then they say Apple makes it impossible for devs to make games and does nothing to help but when Apple make efforts in the right direction and helps devs lika 4A with Metro Exodus, Larian with BG3 and Piranha Bytes with Elex 2 and works with Capcom, Hello Games, Bloober Team, Fallen Leaf and ohers they say that’s just for show and no good and never will be.
Then when all this is called Mac bashing they say no it’s about choice and being realist and keep bragging about PC performance and freedom of choice. Then when I suggest they should just get a PC/console and be happy instead of complaining here all the time about a platform they don’t really game on they go back to step one and keep complaining, rinse and repeat.
So in the end nothing anybody does for Mac gaming matters because people just love to point finger and mock Apple, Macs and Mac gamers. Otherwise there would be no need for such posts when there is a solution and if people really were realists and didn’t care about talking down other platforms they don’t game on. That’s the sad situation in general on this forum, PCrumors.com.
