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Steam for Mac Now Live, Portal is Free Until May 24th
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Yes!!!
This is the greatest day ever! I am leaving my mark on this forum as the day Mac gaming history changed forever. Never again will we troll the Apple Games forwards debating the best way to get a CIDER port to give us 15 FPS for a 5 year old game! =D
This is my birthday too so this may be the best birthday present, EVER. Thank you Valve!!!
This is the greatest day ever! I am leaving my mark on this forum as the day Mac gaming history changed forever. Never again will we troll the Apple Games forwards debating the best way to get a CIDER port to give us 15 FPS for a 5 year old game! =D
This is my birthday too so this may be the best birthday present, EVER. Thank you Valve!!!
Portal is "only" free to play until the 24th, then it will vanish from your account, unless you bought it.
LOL at people expecting Valve to give away Portal for free.
Wow. So what we're getting is a demo. Geez, how exciting.
Portal is "only" free to play until the 24th, then it will vanish from your account, unless you bought it.
LOL at people expecting Valve to give away Portal for free.
No, it's actually your free copy. It doesn't deactivate the way a "free weekend" would.
Portal is "only" free to play until the 24th, then it will vanish from your account, unless you bought it.
LOL at people expecting Valve to give away Portal for free.
Are you being sarcastic? The website makes it pretty clear that the game is free until May 24th.
No one is expecting Valve to give anything away for free. Everyone is really pleasantly surprised by this offer.
The post above yours is proof, that people actually expected to be free.
And Valve is clear about it, too, but some people don't seem to be reading it carefully:
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/
"So you only have a few days to decide if your free copy of Portal is worth the price we're currently charging"
Point taken. However, this is just about the best advertisement Valve could do. I would never have downloaded Steam had it not been for this promotion. I do not game, but I have nothing to lose by trying Portal for free.
It also doesn't hurt that I finished my last final yesterday.
It also doesn't hurt that I finished my last final yesterday.
Portal is "only" free to play until the 24th, then it will vanish from your account, unless you bought it.
LOL at people expecting Valve to give away Portal for free.
Umm, actually that's NOT what the Steam store says. It says it's free until the 24th but that does not necessarily imply that it gets deleted on the 24th. It's ambiguous to put it mildly. Not saying it won't get removed but I think clarification is needed before you start laughing at people...
Wow to all the Valve Time posts. Maybe Valve is trying to make a good impression with the Mac users.
not sure what good having portal available is if a mac pro can't play it.
seriously, I can run this well at medium settings at 1600x1200 in bootcamp on this machine...
are Apple's graphics drivers that bad?
seriously, I can run this well at medium settings at 1600x1200 in bootcamp on this machine...
are Apple's graphics drivers that bad?
