I think it's great that Valve is creating a version of Steam for the Mac, but it should be noted that Steam and many Valve games (including all the Half-Life IIs, Team Fortress 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead 1 & 2, and Counterstrike) already work on the Mac using a fairy inexpensive product called CrossOver Games. Performance on my MacBook Pro is great, and best of all you don't need to set up a separate drive partition or install any version of Windows. You can install the game from disk and set it up in Steam, just like on a PC. Doesn't work for every game, but the selection is surprisingly deep.
If it weren't for Valve and steam I probably wouldn't be playing computer games today. PC games used to be (and still is to some extent) a real hassle to play and Valve knows how to streamline the experience so it's easy to just download and play without having deal with unnecessary configurations and losing discs or CD-keys
I bought AudioSurf ages ago, when I was still a PC guy. I wonder if my account and my purchase (if ported) will be still valid (my guess is yes for the account, no for the game)
Yeah I do. My brother has a mac and we want to play together, but we can't. Also, can someone ban this troll? It's getting quite annoying.
Troll? Pretty much every post you've made here is a blind and ignorant attack at Apple/Macs. You realise this is an iPhone gaming forum right? Lots of people here quite like Apple and your posts serve absolutely no purpose other than to annoy. Your very existence here is fail. If there was any reason for me to be banned it would have happened long before I reached 7k posts. I'm betting a huge percentage of those are reasonable conversation.
I'm with Midian, here. But just to be helpful to poor, outclassed Bramsey, your brother can already play Counterstrike:Source on a Mac using CrossOver Games -- see the link on the first page of this thread.
Slightly older thread, I know, but I just read the news today (so sue me; I tend not to generally pay attention to personal computer gaming these days). It's great news, but comes with an odd choice of words: Valve's rep stated they were going to treat the Mac platform as a "tier 1" platform alongside PC (Windows) and XBox360. Yet...no PS3 support on that level. Strange. Now, I understand that the Mac adoption rate has gone up, and surely there are those Mac owners who've switched over from Windows (as I did a few years back, after having switched from Amiga - how I miss you - to Windows previously)...but "tier 1"? On the level of Windows PC and XBox360, and higher than PS3? I mean...Mac has never really been flooded with game consumers, and even with the increased Mac userbase I don't think it's still to that level. Now, the first thing that comes to mind is that PS3 must REALLY be a pain in the ass on which to develop games as Valve seems to be avoiding it a lot. Secondly, Apple must be readying something big behind the scenes, because they've obviously upgraded their dev toolkit for game developers (I call this the iPhone/touch effect)...and I really think the next salvo is a new AppleTV that has an open SDK and it's own App Store. You can play Valve's games now via Crossover, sure, but that's still native Windows code; Valve has gone on record stating that these Mac versions will be native Mac code. If Apple's toolkit for OS X game development have been made more dev friendly, that, alongside the iPhone/touch effect, and the fact that they've hired some game execs, as well as no new AppleTV platform YET leads me to believe they're readying something big. Game changing big. Or maybe I'm just hoping it.
