Its official - NO MAC SUPPORT

[HEX]

So I have answer from support:

„With the release of Counter-Strike 2, the team has made the difficult decision to discontinue support for older hardware, including DirectX 9 and 32-bit operating systems. Similarly, macOS is no longer supported. Going forward, Counter-Strike 2 will exclusively support 64-bit Windows and Linux. More information about this decision can be found here.

macOS users are eligible for a refund if most of their CS:GO playtime was on macOS and they played CS:GO on a Mac between the announcement of the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test (March 22, 2023) and the launch of Counter-Strike 2 (September 27, 2023), regardless of when they purchased their Prime Status Upgrade.

Users running DirectX 9 and/or 32-bit version of Windows are eligible for a Prime Status Upgrade refund if their purchase was made on Steam between the announcement of the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test (March 22, 2023) and the launch of Counter-Strike 2 (September 27, 2023).

Please note, CD keys, gifts, accounts with bans, and in-game and Steam Community Market purchases are not eligible for a refund.

Refunds may be requested until December 1st, 2023 through this link.

Because we have provided all the information we have regarding this issue I am closing this help request. If you have an unrelated issue please open a new help request.

Regards,
Kelvin”

Now I need to sell all my stuff, they will not pay us back for any market trasactions, only You can get refund the CS game, thats a tragic comedy.

15 wasted years - Thank You valve ❤️

[Fosta胖杰]

Thanks Valve :) very "appreciate" that
you are investing your money in Linux gaming with proton and same architecture of OS on MAC you just reject. Lovely despite Apple release Gaming port tool kit !

[alexmaru]

What can i say... Morons.

[🐠🍑]

This is good news and I'm glad to hear it

[Waltuh]

Man, all the games I play keep quitting supporting Mac. I don't like this at all. Me and my friends were playing CS:GO and just one day we can't anymore.

[UNITED STATES OF SMASH]

people play on mac ? its prob have to do something with apples new chips

[jing]

cant you install windows on a mac pc? why use any other OS other than windows anyway

[Renos]

Originally posted by fosterushka:

Thanks Valve :) very "appreciate" that
you are investing your money in Linux gaming with proton and same architecture of OS on MAC you just reject. Lovely despite Apple release Gaming port tool kit !

so here is it the issue
apple's refusal to support vulkan nativly.
even with the aid of the game porting tool kit.
you would be running x86 to arm translation
vulkan to metal translation
the M1 GPUs are not built for gaming.

so you would be running translation overhead on top of translation overhead. On top of bad gpu performance.
not a great combination for a game like cs2

[󠁳⁧⁧Whitespirit]

no one cares bc no one plays on mac or should play on a mac

[HEX]

There is one major problem here - THEY DID NOT INFORM US (macos players) THAT THEY WILL DROP MACOS SUPPORT

[Renos]

Originally posted by HEX:

There is one major problem here - THEY DID NOT INFORM US (macos players) THAT THEY WILL DROP MACOS SUPPORT

valve rarely likes to make announcements about dropping support until they are certain it won't happen,
my guess is they had a"friendly' email chain with apple over things the past few weeks
apple was stubborn and refused to budge and valve said it was not worth it to even continue on anymore for the 1% of the playerbase that plays on mac still

[ithie]

And here's the source:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/73EF-08A3-0935-6369

[Phantom )(]

I have manage to play the game using NVDIA GeForce Now, I have only the free account currently so there is a wait time to get into the game sometimes, but I'm playing and I'm using my Mac.
Hope this helps some of you

[Tiger X Light]

Originally posted by crystal castles vanished:

cant you install windows on a mac pc? why use any other OS other than windows anyway

security and for work. some people Sis can't get away from their work pc

[Lollash]

Yeh i sure wonder why.

Steam Hardware & Software Survey: September 2023

OS Version : Percentage

• Windows 96.94%
  
  
• Linux 1.63%
  
  
• OSX 1.43%

Source: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

[Phantom )(]

That .2% made all difference ;)