Steam for Mac - LIVE - Bring on the Patches!

Steam has officially launched for the Mac- and with 64 games, to boot! Not all of Valve's library is available yet, but it's coming soon. And here I was, thinking all that would be available was Portal and Torchlight.

w00t!

What say you, SW? Are Macs back on the radar? I mean... Valve believes Apple's computers are worthy of being a Tier 1 platform. You don't doubt Valve, do you?!?

Edit: Welcome to the open beta, Mac users. Hopefully Valve irons out the issues soon. :(

Edit 2: I included a link a few pages down, with performance tips. For all intents and purposes, Mac vs PC performance should be on par. This is a step in the right direction, and updates from Valve should handle the rest. If you get a chance to try this, post your results, as I will mine.

Edit 3: Portal and Civ4 have both been patched. Performance in Portal has greatly improved. V-sync and Color correction no longer cause your game to grind to a halt. Valve got out their bug squashing shoes for Civ4. First you couldn't download it, then you couldn't play it because it wouldn't launch! Now- you can do BOTH. Awesome updates. Looking forward to more!

Great news for Mac owners. Steam is a fantastic service.

Linux version is coming too

At least now there's one reason to own a Mac

I think Steam is giving out Portal for free due to the event as well.

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Linux version is coming too

AdrianWerner

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

Linux version is coming too

musicalmac

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"] icwutudidthere. But good news for Mac owners. Ya got some gamez!musicalmac

Quiting Druken Gamer vid...the best thing about Mac gaming is that you always know which games are good because you've already played them on PC years ago ;)

Lets hope there's some good sales on in the near future,because Mac owners won't have much money left for full price games after having re-mortgaged their house to afford their shiny new MAC. :)

These replies would seem a lot more clever if they were true. If Valve believes Apple's computers are worth supporting, people (read: gamers) should know things have changed.musicalmac

Really..let's be honest...how did things change? Biggest pc games usuallytraditionaly used toMac versions sooner or later

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]These replies would seem a lot more clever if they were true. If Valve believes Apple's computers are worth supporting, people (read: gamers) should know things have changed.AdrianWerner

Really..let's be honest...how did things change? Biggest pc games usuallytraditionaly used toMac versions sooner or later

Well, first of all- this thread isn't about Steam on Linux. That's pretty clear by this thread title, "Steam for Mac - LIVE!"

Macs always got Blizzard games at the same time PC users did. Sure there were (and still are) games that Macs get later than PC users, but that's diminished greatly since Apple made the Intel switch.

And ultimately, this isn't my opinion- it's Valve's. They're the ones who see Macs as being important.

And ultimately, this isn't my opinion- it's Valve's. They're the ones who see Macs as being important.

musicalmac

i hope team fortress 2 comes to mac

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]And ultimately, this isn't my opinion- it's Valve's. They're the ones who see Macs as being important.

AdrianWerner

i hope team fortress 2 comes to mac

GrannyGoat

i hope team fortress 2 comes to mac

GrannyGoat

the Mac platform has a lot of ground to make up for since the first time they showed off Halo:P

CE did make it to Mac, for some strange reason, but they lost Bungie.

only took 10 years to get Valve on board.

the Mac platform has a lot of ground to make up for since the first time they showed off Halo:P

CE did make it to Mac, for some strange reason, but they lost Bungie.

only took 10 years to get Valve on board.

HavocV3

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]And ultimately, this isn't my opinion- it's Valve's. They're the ones who see Macs as being important.

musicalmac

you wrote Valve's choice shows how things have changed. I've read that as you claiming that suddenly a lot has changed in terms of support for Macs as game platforms. If that wasn't your intention then I'm sorry I misinterpreted your post

[QUOTE="HavocV3"]

the Mac platform has a lot of ground to make up for since the first time they showed off Halo:P

CE did make it to Mac, for some strange reason, but they lost Bungie.

only took 10 years to get Valve on board.

musicalmac

[QUOTE="GrannyGoat"]

i hope team fortress 2 comes to mac

AdrianWerner

[QUOTE="HavocV3"]

the Mac platform has a lot of ground to make up for since the first time they showed off Halo:P

CE did make it to Mac, for some strange reason, but they lost Bungie.

only took 10 years to get Valve on board.

musicalmac

as in personal computer?

yeah, I understand that. assuming I'm on the right track here: why is it even that way? should just be Windows vs. Mac:P

you wrote Valve's choice shows how things have changed. I've read that as you claiming that suddenly a lot has changed in terms of support for Macs as game platforms. If that wasn't your intention then I'm sorry I misinterpreted your post

AdrianWerner

true, but try to explain that to legions of drones to grew up on Apple's commercials :)

AdrianWerner

the Mac platform has a lot of ground to make up for since the first time they showed off Halo:P

CE did make it to Mac, for some strange reason, but they lost Bungie.

only took 10 years to get Valve on board.

HavocV3

well they've always had support from some of the big publishers like Blizzard and some other titles (COD2 is on the mac)

but there wasn't any centralized gaming for the platform, you basically just played blizzard games and that was it, so this is a pretty big deal for the mac

that said you probably won't start seeing games like the witcher, stalker, crysis, etc. on the mac version of steam, at least not anytime soon, but the other games like Civ 5 might end up on the mac now

yeah, I understand that. assuming I'm on the right track here: why is it even that way? should just be Windows vs. Mac:P

HavocV3

[QUOTE="HavocV3"]

the Mac platform has a lot of ground to make up for since the first time they showed off Halo:P

CE did make it to Mac, for some strange reason, but they lost Bungie.

only took 10 years to get Valve on board.

88mphSlayer

well they've always had support from some of the big publishers like Blizzard and some other titles (COD2 is on the mac)

but there wasn't any centralized gaming for the platform, you basically just played blizzard games and that was it, so this is a pretty big deal for the mac

that said you probably won't start seeing games like the witcher, stalker, crysis, etc. on the mac version of steam, at least not anytime soon, but the other games like Civ 5 might end up on the mac now

okay now how to actually download it to my mac? i can't seem to fine the download button lol, or am i missing something

nvm got it

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

you wrote Valve's choice shows how things have changed. I've read that as you claiming that suddenly a lot has changed in terms of support for Macs as game platforms. If that wasn't your intention then I'm sorry I misinterpreted your post

musicalmac

true, but try to explain that to legions of drones to grew up on Apple's commercials :)

AdrianWerner

well to be fair, when it comes to the vast majority of people using computers, stereotypes tend to actually stick pretty well:

if somebody is using a mac, it's most likely a laptop, in their living room, staring at facebook all day

if somebody is using a PC, it's most likely a desktop, at work, playing solitaire all day

awesome!... i was hoping to play more than portal today, but its a good thing cause I have so much stuff to do for finals tonight lolz

looking at my list of games, TF2 doesn't even show up. is this the same for anyone else who owns it? iron-iron

[QUOTE="iron-iron"]looking at my list of games, TF2 doesn't even show up. is this the same for anyone else who owns it? musicalmac

Linux version is coming too

AdrianWerner

That would be sweet, where did you hear that?

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

Linux version is coming too

musicalmac

I think you are doing something wrong :|

Check this out. Portal is free right now since they did the Steam update, and it runs on both mac and PC.

http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/

i really don't like steam that much. yes it has some good sales . but when it comes to features its really not that great .

apple is taking over now they are even taking pc games

i really don't like steam that much. yes it has some good sales . but when it comes to features its really not that great .

dontshackzmii

Had it for a while on Windows, but good news nonetheless.

EDIT: Speaking of Macs, I need to update my sig. Intuos 4 and CS5 say hello.

[QUOTE="dontshackzmii"]

i really don't like steam that much. yes it has some good sales . but when it comes to features its really not that great .

lordreaven

what does it have thats so great? cross game chat?

[QUOTE="lordreaven"][QUOTE="dontshackzmii"]

i really don't like steam that much. yes it has some good sales . but when it comes to features its really not that great .

dontshackzmii

what does it have thats so great? cross game chat?

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