StarCraft 2 not exclusive?

[QUOTE="ianuilliam"]

Yes, I prefer gaming on a console. I'm not 16 anymore. I have a wife and family, and I prefer gaming, or anything else, in ways that can include them. That's not to say I've not done my share of gaming on a pc. From old text-based games to adventure games like King's Quest and Monkey Island, to Doom, Xwing, Wing Commander games, to newer games like Dawn of War, TES games, NWN games, etc. to MMOs like AC, FFXI, WoW... I have in fact played a lot of PC games. I played pc games when they didn't have graphics, or when the graphics was simple ASCII art. I played pc games back when you had to make boot disks to run them. I was probably playing pc games when quite a few of the pc gamers on this board weren't even alive, and I still play some games on my pc. I still prefer consoles, and I still consider windows and MacOs to be seperate platforms (based on the fact that they need different versions of the game.

Mograine

The hardware is the same, and GameSpot considers PC and Mac to be the same, given that there is no dedicated Mac board and the Mac games forum is together with the PC's.

End of story.

Any further speculation are just fantasies that you consolites need to feel better about your platform of choice.

[QUOTE="Mograine"]

[QUOTE="ianuilliam"]

Yes, I prefer gaming on a console. I'm not 16 anymore. I have a wife and family, and I prefer gaming, or anything else, in ways that can include them. That's not to say I've not done my share of gaming on a pc. From old text-based games to adventure games like King's Quest and Monkey Island, to Doom, Xwing, Wing Commander games, to newer games like Dawn of War, TES games, NWN games, etc. to MMOs like AC, FFXI, WoW... I have in fact played a lot of PC games. I played pc games when they didn't have graphics, or when the graphics was simple ASCII art. I played pc games back when you had to make boot disks to run them. I was probably playing pc games when quite a few of the pc gamers on this board weren't even alive, and I still play some games on my pc. I still prefer consoles, and I still consider windows and MacOs to be seperate platforms (based on the fact that they need different versions of the game.

ianuilliam

The hardware is the same, and GameSpot considers PC and Mac to be the same, given that there is no dedicated Mac board and the Mac games forum is together with the PC's.

End of story.

Any further speculation are just fantasies that you consolites need to feel better about your platform of choice.

the OS is what matters, hardware can change, and it can still work, which is why xbox games work on the 360, and why PS1 and PS2 games work on the PS3. they wont work on the PC because its coded different. u r right

gamer-adam1

Look what I found on their forum .

Both Mac and PC version are on a single DVD. I know for a fact - due to reasons I can not name here - that the game is 7GB large. 14GB doesn't fit on a single DVD so the only conclusion that can be draw is that they're infact nearly the same with only a couple small files that differs to handle communication with each API.

Tough luck guys, so much for the "I NEED A DIFFERENT DISCZZ TO PLAY MAC VERSIONZZ".

[QUOTE="Mitazaki"]

[QUOTE="gamer-adam1"]

the OS is what matters, hardware can change, and it can still work, which is why xbox games work on the 360, and why PS1 and PS2 games work on the PS3. they wont work on the PC because its coded different. u r right

gamer-adam1

Yes the OS matters but either using windows or mac os they are both still running on a PC. The reason ps1 and ps2 games work on ps3, if I remember right is due to emulation, same with how the Xbox360 can run Xbox games, the Wii doesnt need to do this when playing Gamecube games as really it just turns into a Gamecube due to the hardware.

dnt forget some PC games wont play on all OS

That really due to a marketing decision, windows has the higher user rate. Again either it been designed to play on whatever software the hardware been the PC is what runs it all. The OS allows you to interact with the hardware.

Again say if Mircosoft made NXE 2 for example and any game made for it would not work on NXE 1 but still both work on Xbox 360. So we end up with a game thats made twice, one for NXE and the other for NXE 2. Does that make it no longer an Xbox 360 exclusive?

For those interested, in case he doesn't come in to post. MusicalMac cleared it up:

Anything playable on a PC is playable on a Mac. Scarcraft 2 is exclusive to computers. It's exclusively a computer game, and not a console game. It is exclusive. PC/Mac = Computer.musicalmac

[QUOTE="gamer-adam1"]

the OS is what matters, hardware can change, and it can still work, which is why xbox games work on the 360, and why PS1 and PS2 games work on the PS3. they wont work on the PC because its coded different. u r right

CAPSROGUE

Look what I found on their forum .

Both Mac and PC version are on a single DVD. I know for a fact - due to reasons I can not name here - that the game is 7GB large. 14GB doesn't fit on a single DVD so the only conclusion that can be draw is that they're infact nearly the same with only a couple small files that differs to handle communication with each API.

Tough luck guys, so much for the "I NEED A DIFFERENT DISCZZ TO PLAY MAC VERSIONZZ".

not surprised, they could probably do the same thing for a PC/360 game. its just like porting a game over to something else. which is why some PS3 games dont run as well as the 360 verison without updates, the same thing happened when Steam went to Mac

Someone already posted a picture of this, but... Starcraft 2 PC/Starcraft 2 Mac. Seems GS thinks they are different. Notice the "Also on" tab, you know, where they list all the platforms a game is on...

ianuilliam

Keep going.

You can make up fantasies all you want, it's not going to change the fact that Mac *is* a PC and that every reasonable person understands why they are divided.

[QUOTE="CAPSROGUE"]

[QUOTE="gamer-adam1"]

the OS is what matters, hardware can change, and it can still work, which is why xbox games work on the 360, and why PS1 and PS2 games work on the PS3. they wont work on the PC because its coded different. u r right

gamer-adam1

Look what I found on their forum .

Both Mac and PC version are on a single DVD. I know for a fact - due to reasons I can not name here - that the game is 7GB large. 14GB doesn't fit on a single DVD so the only conclusion that can be draw is that they're infact nearly the same with only a couple small files that differs to handle communication with each API.

Tough luck guys, so much for the "I NEED A DIFFERENT DISCZZ TO PLAY MAC VERSIONZZ".

not surprised, they could probably do the same thing for a PC/360 game. its just like porting a game over to something else. which is why some PS3 games dont run as well as the 360 verison without updates, the same thing happened when Steam went to Mac

[QUOTE="gamer-adam1"]

[QUOTE="Mitazaki"]

Yes the OS matters but either using windows or mac os they are both still running on a PC. The reason ps1 and ps2 games work on ps3, if I remember right is due to emulation, same with how the Xbox360 can run Xbox games, the Wii doesnt need to do this when playing Gamecube games as really it just turns into a Gamecube due to the hardware.

Mitazaki

dnt forget some PC games wont play on all OS

That really due to a marketing decision, windows has the higher user rate. Again either it been designed to play on whatever software the hardware been the PC is what runs it all. The OS allows you to interact with the hardware.

Again say if Mircosoft made NXE 2 for example and any game made for it would not work on NXE 1 but still both work on Xbox 360. So we end up with a game thats made twice, one for NXE and the other for NXE 2. Does that make it no longer an Xbox 360 exclusive?

its still a exclusive, because you still need the software to run that game which is owned.