Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Valve to Expand Steam Store Beyond Games on September 5
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Actually, blizzard sometimes includes additional features with their Mac version. WoW for mac has movie recording for example. They definitely do make the Mac a high priority. Also, I meant what blizzard was, not is. They have deteriorated with time; I have little interest in playing most of their games anymore. They used to be a quality company that dished out amazing games. Few in number, but high quality, much like Apple in fact. They were a great match for each other.
The sad truth about both valve and blizzard's games running better on PCs, is something that is completely out of their control. The OpenGL implementation is really not that great. It has come a long way, but it still has a long way to go.
Uhm.. it's 2012 dude.. can't pay with your chickens anymore...
I was thinking about gift cards, which you buy from a store with physical bills.
----------
If you dual-boot, you're already using Windows, not Mac. And it's just a pain in the butt, especially when you want your personal files and stuff there for certain reasons. There are also heightened risks in Windows; my Windows virtual machine in VirtualBox got a virus that wiped the whole thing out.
Not sure if you're aware but TF2 is one of the most resource intensive games. It will not work on a 2008 MBP, thats for sure. Put it this way. It struggles on my 09 Mac Pro.
Dont blame the developer for your own out of date hardware, in this case
What! TF2 runs and is playable on my now retired 2004 dell inspiron XPS with a Pentium 4 3.4 GHZ and ati mobility radeon 9700! Valves games have always been rather forgiving hardware wise. My '07 C2D still plays everything I throw at it, granted it has a recently upgraded graphics card.
I would wager that if that '08 MBP was running tf2 in windows that it would do just fine.
God bless you all for trying to game in OSX
Last edited:
Fraxis/2K had been steadily improving time between turns up until the release of Gods and Kings. Maybe it is the additional game mechanics that have bogged it down. Spreading religion and improving water tiles cause the game to choke and you are not even between turns!
The more you know! And this was from my friends that were shocked that I had Steam installed on my MacBook.
This is for the Mac/PC.
ahh ok then i guess this is a good thing
more options always better for us.
I wonder if they will require you to "log on steam" to use apps too... Main reason why I simply don't use Steam.
Some developers sell their products so you can use it on as many computers as you own (there are restrictions, but I don't own more than 5 computers), for example, like buying OS X Mountain Lion.
However, buying the same game in Steam simply lock me to only be able to use it on one computer at a time, unless I want to keep logging on both machines and sometimes that is not possible.
Hopefully, Steam will also realize several improvements they can make so their solution becomes a bit more attractive.
Some developers sell their products so you can use it on as many computers as you own (there are restrictions, but I don't own more than 5 computers), for example, like buying OS X Mountain Lion.
However, buying the same game in Steam simply lock me to only be able to use it on one computer at a time, unless I want to keep logging on both machines and sometimes that is not possible.
Hopefully, Steam will also realize several improvements they can make so their solution becomes a bit more attractive.
you clearly don't follow steam, gaming or digital distribution news.Yeah, because everybody knows what a big suckcess W8 is going to be.
Let me know when Gabe and the Valve team release Portal 3, Half Life 3, etc.
Maybe Gabe has to go back to Preschool, and learn to count to three?
Maybe Gabe has to go back to Preschool, and learn to count to three?
Curious... when would you ever need to open up your steam account on 2 separate machines at the same time for a game?
w00master
You're very smarmy, aren't you? Too much to know that Dag is a big gamer and was probably at worst 50/50 in terms of seriousness/humor in regard to his comment.
Why thank God? Say OS X 10.9 was dire to the point of unusable, Apple had messed up big time and people were jumping to alternative platforms since Apple don't support their older OSs. You'd have to repurchase your software if you bought it all from the App Store. With Steam, load Windows (or Linux if they are going to start supporting it like they say), redownload and go. Simple.
Chances are OS X 10.9 will be fine for the majority of users. But you never know.
Does this mean we won't have to wait a year for PC games to be ported over to Mac? (Bioshock)
Screw Steam.
Screw Steam.
Screw Steam? Because it took a year for Bioshock to show up on the Mac? That's not Steam's fault.
To an extent, yes. The only difference being on the AppStore you're restricted to using pre-defined pricing tiers (vs setting your own prices on GPlay/Steam).