Valve sends out suggestive images to a variety of Apple-related sites

primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
edited March 2010 in Gaming
Valve sends out suggestive images to a variety of Apple-related sites

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  • timuchantimuchan Fishers, IN Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    I <3 Valve.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    So what we are saying is that that OSX will only be about five years behind the curve at this point?

    Holy shit, mac fanboy's are going to have access to games I finished five years ago!!

    FM tuners, mice with two buttons and now 3D games!! Baby steps Apple, baby steps....
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    Awesome images. Well done, Valve.

    I hope Steve Jobs gives everyone at Valve a big hug. No longer can people complain about gaming on a Mac. Hell, if Steam was available for OSX two years ago when I bought my laptop, I might have got a PowerBook.

    I wonder if anything besides Source games will be available.
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    Cliff_Forster wrote:
    So what we are saying is that that OSX will only be about five years behind the curve at this point?

    Holy shit, mac fanboy's are going to have access to games I finished five years ago!!

    FM tuners, mice with two buttons and now 3D games!! Baby steps Apple, baby steps....
    How do you glean that no games for Apple is all Apple's fault?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    PowerPC.
  • chrisWhitechrisWhite Littleton, CO
    edited March 2010
    Fuck. Yes.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    So does that mean I can run the versions I own on my mac now or do i have to buy the MAC versios?
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    RyderOCZ wrote:
    How do you glean that no games for Apple is all Apple's fault?

    I suppose I don't, but its just kind of embarrassing to their camp if you ask me. Like wow, look what we got, Half Life 2!! Whooo hoooo!!!!

    Having a mac to game on was kinda like me having an Atari 7800 when my neighbors had the NES (true story)
  • chrisWhitechrisWhite Littleton, CO
    edited March 2010
    Oh, it's definitely somewhat Apple's fault, they've never cared about gaming and never done anything to make it easy to develop for in that respect. Mac games get little exposure from Apple, their the second class citizen of the platform.

    Until the iPhone/iPod Touch App Store that is.
  • Sudo Nimh
    edited March 2010
    Excellent, more cannon fodder for this old fart to kill. Apple fanboys with little experience at FPS.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited March 2010
    I hope game developers don't start looking seriously at Macs. It's bad enough with gaming consoles stifling the progress of graphics as it is.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    I hope game developers don't start looking seriously at Macs.
    My first thought was, "Nah, don't worry about it. The Mac market isn't large enough for the competitive games studios to lose any sleep over." But then, certain attributes of the Apple/Mac 'community' made me think again. Apple could get behind this, market the old games with new names, convince the Apple Fanboys and girls that it's all an Apple innovation, and boom, games start selling at the apple store for $250 a pop, game add-ons/updates only $50 per installment. Low volume, high profit! Whatever game features don't get ported over to Mac will be called "unnecessary, risky, and over complicated."

    Can you imagine what Apple might charge for a "gaming Mac?" :hair:
  • RyanMMRyanMM Ferndale, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    If I find out that they wasted one man-hour on Steam for Apple that could've been spent on GODDAMNED PORTAL TWO I WILL LOSE IT.
  • BasilBasil Nubcaek England Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    204931-valve_6.jpg
    Macworld got an image too.
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    RyanMeray wrote:
    If I find out that they wasted one man-hour on Steam for Apple that could've been spent on GODDAMNED PORTAL TWO I WILL LOSE IT.

    ^This! That's also how I feel about Blizzard, WoW and Starcraft 2!!!!!!!!!!:grumble:
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    I think it's a good investment. Personally, my PC / KVM setup is purely due to my need to play Valve games despite having moved to my Mac mini for everything else. Otherwise I'd cart the PC right off my desk.
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    ^^ what he said. I have a PC for the sole purpose of gaming and WMC.

    If steam came to osx i'd consider getting rid of it.
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    Upgradability. Simply. No matter the strength of gaming and other programs on the Mac, I would NEVER ditch a PC for gaming.
  • chrisWhitechrisWhite Littleton, CO
    edited March 2010
    I don't get it actually, I don't see why Valve would feel like this is that compelling of a market in terms of numbers. Sure, it's wide open for them and they'll get a lot of new fans and make more fans very happy, but even so, the numbers aren't really there.

    That said, I'm quite happy if they spent months on this instead of HL2 Episode 3 or Portal 2. Suck it kids.

    My big question right now is whether players on both platforms will be able to play online with each other via multiplayer. Outside of MMO (just WoW?), are there any other games that do this?

    Edit: @Lynx, agreed. I do like the idea of having a dedicated game (and 3D) PC but also being able to take some games mobile with an OS X laptop (the area of the market they're strongest in). If game saves could sync to the cloud it would be the perfect setup for me.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    In a perfect world more developers would have supported OpenGL and we would be able to take our games to any platform we want, but what can I say, Microsoft invested more in Direct X, its as simple as that.

    Don't get me wrong, I think its great OSX is going to get Steam and some Valve ports, honestly I do. I just don't want to talk about it like its something cutting edge, or a huge step forward for gamers because its not.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    chrisWhite wrote:
    My big question right now is whether players on both platforms will be able to play online with each other via multiplayer. Outside of MMO (just WoW?), are there any other games that do this?

    I remember one of the NFS games you could play against console players.
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    Thrax wrote:
    PowerPC.

    Pretty weak argument in these days, considering that both the XBox360 and PS3 have PPC-based processors.

    Yes, I know they're lightyears ahead of the post-67k Apple gear, but it's still a valid point.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    Apple switched to x86 in, what? 2005? 2006?

    This means that Apple architecture spent two decades being incompatible with the ISA predominantly used by the PC gaming industry. Is it any wonder, then, that nobody bothered to develop workflows or processes to develop on this architecture? And need I mention the 1-3% market share?

    There was no money in it, and no incentive.
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