Thanks the Apple commercial, I guess?

just buy the game already lmao

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brainpattern の投稿を引用：

Cool from a technical standpoint, but what's the user base on Apple silicon? OSX accounts for ~2.23% on the current Steam hardware survey.



Maybe I'm missing something but this seems like a lot of effort for a very small return.

4 weeks of work to benefit ~2% of your player base is honestly not that bad of a time investment, especially because it was mainly a single dev working on the feature.

ARM may come on way more machines. perf/watt/price says it's better if you don't care about max performance on the market.

Linux supports that since long time and Windows has started also to look to those CPU more seriously.

Lots of poor people cope in this thread lmao

Nuyuu の投稿を引用：

my dyslexic ass misread: I'm here to share some exciting news for our non-existent Mac players.
no hate, thought it was funny

buying a mac to play games is like buying a chair to store things on it.

it's just kinda backwards, but i guess it works?

Thanks for the continued Mac support.

I'm on PC, but I'm always happy when more gamers get to play games, especially games I love. (I'm also glad Factorio runs on Linux, for if/when I finally get fed up with Windows, heheh.)

I need a sneak peak of the new content, I'm begging hahaha.

Gaming on mac lol

Hello

BigDog の投稿を引用：

The apple graphic with the mod chips is phenomenal. Slightly faster, quite a bit more efficient.

yeah I love the funny little apple silicon thank you for the positivity

brainpattern の投稿を引用：

Cool from a technical standpoint, but what's the user base on Apple silicon? OSX accounts for ~2.23% on the current Steam hardware survey.

In total, it took about 4 weeks to investigate, develop, test, finalize, and deploy the new macOS build process.

Maybe I'm missing something but this seems like a lot of effort for a very small return.

I mean it kinda shows that they care about their players, no matter what platform they use

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Nine の投稿を引用：

4 weeks of work to benefit ~2% of your player base is honestly not that bad of a time investment, especially because it was mainly a single dev working on the feature.

Apple Silicon is a small fraction of mac users, so it's probably more like 4 weeks of work to benefit <0.1% of your userbase, which doesn't really seem worth it, especially since they're working on a huge expansion. But I'm not a game developer. I'm sure this was thought out by the fine folks at Wube.

lol sorry but you're super, super off. The steam survey already reports 50% of apple silicon users among Mac users. It's not a surprise: M1/M2 is much more capable for graphics than Mac intel IGPs were, and apple silicon machines have just sold excellently well anyway.
Macs are still a stupid choice for gaming, but if you want to game M1/M2 is a lot more capable than any other """affordable""" Mac was.

I can't speak for how long it took, and IME my own experience as a developer makes me dislike macOS as a target. Consider that it may be an investment, though. Depending on Wube's future endeavours, it could have become essential at some point anyway.

And elsewhere ITT: people who are clueless about game development :)

*Loud Clapping Sound effect*

Well I have a MacBook and I appreciate their work to make it run better. It runs noticeably cooler and uses way less battery. Couldn't care less about the armchair business analysts around here saying it's not worth it.

I've played for years on Linux, and now that I have a Mac for travel and consulting, I also appreciate the fact that I can just crank out some Factorio during travel and downtime. What's not to like? Was that not worth it because I had already bought the game? That's a very reductionist and narrow view of the player base.