Uhm... Wtf?

[StinkDiver]

Both RS3 and OSRS have Mac OS clients, and yet the steam release doesnt????? So now i have to swap over to my bootcamp install of windows for no good reason to run the game through steam and get achieves and playtime stats????? How did you botch the release this bad?

[Friendly]

Apparently they are working on mac/linux clients but yeah... with how long they take with these things I wouldn't expect it to happen soon.

They are different clients than what's on their website I think though, at least the OSRS one definitely is so they would need to port it over. As I already said though, who knows how long they will take to actually do it...

[RebelMouth]

if you think thats bad, a number of people paid for memberships through steam and those didn't work at first. Like how do you botch your main service?

[Gekko]

By ignoring macOS and Linux, they're pushing players onto third-party clients like RuneLite and OSBuddy. Still hate running Java on my Mac in any case. Makes me feel dirty.

[Aeronizor]

Originally posted by Gekko:

By ignoring macOS and Linux, they're pushing players onto third-party clients like RuneLite and OSBuddy. Still hate running Java on my Mac in any case. Makes me feel dirty.

Lol the only reason 95% of the playerbase uses third-party clients IS because Jagex won't implement the same QoL features the thirdparty clients provide. On top of that the vanilla OSRS client, Runelite, OSBuddy and Steam client do not require you to have java installed.

[Gekko]

Originally posted by Aeronizor:

On top of that the vanilla OSRS client, Runelite, OSBuddy and Steam client do not require you to have java installed.

The original OSRS client (Jagex) requires a Java Runtime Environment installed. RuneLite packages a JRE (AdoptOpenJDK) so it can run standalone. The Steam client doesn't use Java -- it's written in C++.

I'm not sure I would use the Steam client now, anyway. Way too invested in RL lol.

[kingjames488]

you knew when you bought a mac that like 90% of games wouldn't work on it...

that's kinda silly that this version doesn't have a mac client, but you have a solution so eh?

[Linyos Torvoltos]

Originally posted by kingjames488:

you knew when you bought a mac that like 90% of games wouldn't work on it...

that's kinda silly that this version doesn't have a mac client, but you have a solution so eh?

There is literally a native mac version of the game. Official.

But for some reason it ain't through steam. Even if they were working on a better client, you'd still put the older one there as temporary with a notice stating so.

[kingjames488]

Originally posted by Built Different:

Originally posted by kingjames488:

you knew when you bought a mac that like 90% of games wouldn't work on it...

that's kinda silly that this version doesn't have a mac client, but you have a solution so eh?

There is literally a native mac version of the game. Official.

But for some reason it ain't through steam. Even if they were working on a better client, you'd still put the older one there as temporary with a notice stating so.

from what I understand they had to port the client to something more modern for steam and I guess they just didn't bother making a mac version of that client.

[xoxxxoooxo]

Originally posted by kingjames488:

you knew when you bought a mac that like 90% of games wouldn't work on it...

this is irrelevant. the game already exists on mac through an official client via the website.

your comment applies strictly to the circumstance of a user whining that a particular game is unavailable on macos, while never being promised to be on it in the first place.

/discussion