Batman Arkham City GOTY mac edition?

[Rjstewart22]

I saw that Batman AC showed up in the app store today and i was wondering if anyone knew whether or not it would show up on the steam store anytime soon for the mac. I purchased it already so if it does make it i assume that it will just be added to my mac games section?

[Nintonito]

yes it will be added automatically. However, the mac version was done by feral interactive, so a steam play version is not going to happen.

[Rjstewart22]

aha understood. are there any instance of mac and windows compatible games that are not steam play? @nintonito

[l8fan]

The sooner the better.

[Nintonito]

@Rjstewart22 several. Bioshock 1/2, borderlands 1, RAGE, Empire/Napoleon Total War, Batman AA, Deus Ex Human Revolution, the list goes on.

[Rjstewart22]

solid dude. so its only a matter of time @nintonito

[Nintonito]

those games are most likely not going to see steam play for a while. Porting companies like to use the mac app store because they make more money. Steam play reduces their income because consumers aren't just buying the mac version. Plus in this case the mac version would be given for free to existing owners, which probably means the publisher would pay the porting company much less.

[l8fan]

I really dislike the app store it's a shame these companies don't port it to steam first. I don't think games ever go on sale in the mac store. Shouldn't the cost be effectively cheaper since these games have been out for mac for so long? Or maybe they don't get to interact with the games which have already been ported in this way, meaning they would have to start from scratch?

[Nintonito]

It's a matter of money. Having seperate mac and PC versions is more profitable. Frankly the porting companies are more interested in making money, so they can port more games, and build up a decent mac library. You may not like the app store, but in the end it means more mac versions for you, the consumer.

[Rjstewart22]

on the note of things we dont like about porting companies. how about the fact that nearly all menu text fonts dont get ported over so they just have this generic compiler looking font. it really ruins the polish of a good port

[Nintonito]

actually porting fonts is harder than you think. Usually the fonts are custom, and designed specifically for windows on a low level basis. While porting it can be done, the original developers would need to do it. There's no way a third party porting company could replicate it exactly, which sucks.

[EddDeDuck]

Originally posted by Rjstewart22:

on the note of things we dont like about porting companies. how about the fact that nearly all menu text fonts dont get ported over so they just have this generic compiler looking font. it really ruins the polish of a good port

I work for Feral (we ported both Batman games) the graphics are the same as the PC we have never had a game with low quality fonts, every game we ported has the same high quality fonts as the original in fact fonts have never eally been a problem to port. :) If the fonts are lower quality that is due to the quality of the porting company concerned.


Did you know the Mac version of Arkham Asylum has the "Play as the Joker" bonus levels which the PC and 360 versions never got? Sometimes the fact a porting company has time to focus on the Mac gives benefits of extra Mac attension to detail and in this case some extra content :)

[Aradesh3K]

Glad to see SteamPlay became the thing afterall! Now here's wishing for Arkham Asylum to do the same! (And Origins? :P )

[HOMERNOY]

Originally posted by edddeduck:

Did you know the Mac version of Arkham Asylum has the "Play as the Joker" bonus levels which the PC and 360 versions never got? Sometimes the fact a porting company has time to focus on the Mac gives benefits of extra Mac attension to detail and in this case some extra content :)

Why would you proudly proclaim that you give a tiny percent (small percent of Mac owners game) of PC gamers exclusive content? How is that cool, or ....good? Why? Give me one reason please.

[Nintonito]

Originally posted by homernoy:

Originally posted by edddeduck:

Did you know the Mac version of Arkham Asylum has the "Play as the Joker" bonus levels which the PC and 360 versions never got? Sometimes the fact a porting company has time to focus on the Mac gives benefits of extra Mac attension to detail and in this case some extra content :)

Why would you proudly proclaim that you give a tiny percent (small percent of Mac owners game) of PC gamers exclusive content? How is that cool, or ....good? Why? Give me one reason please.

The exclusivity deal between Sony and WB only accounted for Windows, xbox and PS3. The MAc version was after the fact, meaning that the windows version can't actually have the content. Kudos to Feral for giving someone other than PS3 owners access to the content.

[Aradesh3K]

Originally posted by homernoy:

Why would you proudly proclaim that you give a tiny percent (small percent of Mac owners game) of PC gamers exclusive content? How is that cool, or ....good? Why? Give me one reason please.

*sad trombone*