Spoiler: There's no letdown in the functionality department, as it looks exactly like Steam on Windows. No special bells or whistles, just the new, already slick Steam UI.
[Thanks, Federico]
Spoiler: There's no letdown in the functionality department, as it looks exactly like Steam on Windows. No special bells or whistles, just the new, already slick Steam UI.
[Thanks, Federico]
Reader Comments (51)
Posted: Apr 21st 2010 8:32PM gshauger said
My friend got all excited...telling me how he was going to buy and play Crysis and STALKER now that Steam was finally coming to his Mac. I then explained to him that those games aren't being rewritten for the Mac and that only some games would be playable on both.
I almost laughed when I saw the sad expression on his face!
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I almost laughed when I saw the sad expression on his face!
Posted: Apr 21st 2010 10:04PM Raiki said
He could just use parallels or boot camp like every other Mac user who wants to game. To be honest though, I doubt he'd have been able to play Crysis anyway. The Mac workstations aren't meant to be perform graphically and the laptops just turn into ovens when you start using excessive processes.
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Posted: Apr 21st 2010 8:12PM Wiizer said
As this has been explained to me by others, Steam being available to more people is a win-win situation.
Although I do agree with you about wanting to play games on your original platform. And there are PC's out there that have considerably more hardware power than Macs.
Posted: Apr 21st 2010 8:32PM thehallowhero said
Yay! Now I don't have to switch back and forth to play TF2 and and such. (I rarely play on the computer because of that. and the fact I have all the consoles) But this is awesome because it'll be that easier just to pop on and play some portal or TF2 or whatever. I signed for the beta but nothin yet.
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Posted: Apr 21st 2010 8:33PM SecretAgentHam said
i lol'd pretty hard.
that'll teach you to post your opinion on the internet!
ah...its the simple things in life.
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that'll teach you to post your opinion on the internet!
ah...its the simple things in life.
Posted: Apr 21st 2010 8:29PM AnderFREAK said
Now maybe apple will start giving us the hardware to back this up for a reasonable price. Don't get me wrong, I love my macbook, but the hardware in that thing is atrocious for $1000 bucks.
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Posted: Apr 21st 2010 8:44PM AnderFREAK said
Haha, yeah... I like to pretend corporations aren't evil. Oh, well I don't mind building PC desktops for gaming and mac laptops for work(aluminum cases should be mandatory for all brands of laptops), I've been doing it for years.
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Posted: Apr 21st 2010 8:54PM Reinhart said
Sorry off topic, but since we don't have a forum that I know of - anyone else having problem commenting? I'm a returning member but every time I comment the system keeps acting as if it's my first time (and yes, I've checked that my email and pass boxes are filled).
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Posted: Apr 21st 2010 8:54PM (Unverified) said
"nawflow" may want to protect his user name while making video leaks. Unless it's a deliberate leak from Valve.
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Posted: Apr 21st 2010 9:00PM (Unverified) said
Eh, I don't know, PCs with more computing power than a tricked out Mac Pro? A crazy person can get the Apple store order form up past $17k for one of those.
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Posted: Apr 21st 2010 10:07PM (Unverified) said
Looks like the beta users of Mac Steam will get Portal for free to test with. =O
http://store.steampowered.com/macbeta/welcome
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http://store.steampowered.com/macbeta/welcome
Posted: Apr 22nd 2010 2:25AM husher said
I think Apple as a company has become more like Microsoft over a short period of time, they are no longer to me consisted of the zealous groups of people I used to know, in fact a lot of those users would agree in a sad tone.
Progress is all I'm taking out of this and Apple is filling the one major need I have that only PC provided.
I'll be watching as this develops closely.
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Progress is all I'm taking out of this and Apple is filling the one major need I have that only PC provided.
I'll be watching as this develops closely.
Posted: Apr 22nd 2010 2:39AM deathxrebirth said
i don't really know how clear it is to you, but STEAM FOR MAC is more than likely meant for someone who does NOT OWN A PC.
(except for the steam cloud sharing of course, but come the f on).
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(except for the steam cloud sharing of course, but come the f on).
Posted: Apr 22nd 2010 8:51AM (Unverified) said
Wine does fine work, but a native version for Linux would be cool...
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Posted: Apr 22nd 2010 4:50PM (Unverified) said
It's not necessarily fake... you're right about those icons, but that's easily modified if you know what you're doing. For instance, my finder has a dragon's face and my trash can switches between a mixed and solved rubix cube.
I'm not saying it couldn't still be fake... but the icons don't prove anything.
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I'm not saying it couldn't still be fake... but the icons don't prove anything.
Posted: Apr 22nd 2010 11:09AM Gibbeynator said
Please, oh please, oh please, Steam Store and Steam Community apps for iPhone *crosses fingers*
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Posted: Apr 22nd 2010 12:20PM dalismoustache said
This makes me wonder what toolkits and such are used for the Mac GUI. Considering this hasn't been fully integrated with the OS X style (which necessitates Cocoa), it's intriguing.
Not being a Mac dev, I can only speculate on what Cocoa allows as far as UI elements, but I would assume that this goes somewhat beyond that scope? Perhaps Mono is involved somehow (I would assume Mono is compatible with Mac OS)? If this is the case, then coupled with the explicit mentions of Linux in the bash launcher for the Mac client, then it seems there is at least unofficial Linux support for the desktop client.
Any devs out there feel like clearing this possibility up a bit?
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Not being a Mac dev, I can only speculate on what Cocoa allows as far as UI elements, but I would assume that this goes somewhat beyond that scope? Perhaps Mono is involved somehow (I would assume Mono is compatible with Mac OS)? If this is the case, then coupled with the explicit mentions of Linux in the bash launcher for the Mac client, then it seems there is at least unofficial Linux support for the desktop client.
Any devs out there feel like clearing this possibility up a bit?
Posted: Apr 22nd 2010 11:20PM Gu3st said
Valve being C++ Developers predominantly, it's always possible that they used Carbon and created their own UI using Mac drawing things. In the app bundle, it doesn't follow the typical Cocoa build things (no .nib or anything), so it can't be Cocoa. And the directory structure is very odd.
It's a totally custom setup. Doesn't follow Cocoa, and Carbon can be used for some drastic stuff (look at older versions of PS).
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It's a totally custom setup. Doesn't follow Cocoa, and Carbon can be used for some drastic stuff (look at older versions of PS).
Posted: Apr 23rd 2010 11:02PM (Unverified) said
I really hate how every half-a-tard feels the need to push their crappy taste in music on us by providing a soundtrack to a video when the video doesn't benefit from having a soundtrack. No one cares what your favorite band is.
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