cs2 should be on mac too

[ampersaand]

I wish CS2 was supported on Mac. Yeah, I understand the player base was small but Mac players matter too. These new Apple silicon chips are powerful enough to run it. There is interest because people are trying to make their own Mac ports using gptk or are trying to find ways to run it smoothly in virtual machines. It should be on Mac too even if it costs some extra money on Mac outside of Prime. CSGO was on mac? Why not CS2?

[LTJ]

Because times change. The player base of computer games is 99% PC and barely 1% Mac. Even for gamers on a Mac, they don't play sweaty games like CS2. They play Sims or Civilization. You know, intellectual games because Macs are super expensive and it's a higher clientele than your average "PC Gamer" since kids are on Windows computers, not Macs.

[Renos]

Its never going to happen.
For one the only reason csgo had a mac port is because
OpenGl was still relevent and supported on Mac OS
Apple products used off the shelf parts.
Apple was more open to game devs at the time.
Source 1 was so heavily CPU bound it could run on pretty much anything with a decent x86 cpu.

fast foward to Modern times.
CS2 relies on vulkan or dx11
Apple silicon has 0 support for any of these so your stuck porting to apple's proprietary graphics API.
Apple silicon is ARM based meaning they would have to port the entire engine from x86 to ARM to have resonable performance
Apple silicon GPUs are not meant for gaming so performance their would suck.
Apple these days are a lot more hostile to game devs on Mac OS
A whole lotta work for maybe a few thousand people that would try to play it.

[LTJ]

Originally posted by Renos:

Its never going to happen.
For one the only reason csgo had a mac port is because
OpenGl was still relevent and supported on Mac OS
Apple products used off the shelf parts.
Apple was more open to game devs at the time.
Source 1 was so heavily CPU bound it could run on pretty much anything with a decent x86 cpu.

fast foward to Modern times.
CS2 relies on vulkan or dx11
Apple silicon has 0 support for any of these so your stuck porting to apple's proprietary graphics API.
Apple silicon is ARM based meaning they would have to port the entire engine from x86 to ARM to have resonable performance
Apple silicon GPUs are not meant for gaming so performance their would suck.
Apple these days are a lot more hostile to game devs on Mac OS
A whole lotta work for maybe a few thousand people that would try to play it.

Excellent points! I'd say for your last line, maybe a few hundred people who would actually play CS2 and keep playing it for a while. Mac users don't game like that and if they do, it's cozy games like Sims or Civ. Valve would not waste all that time, money, and resources for barely 1% of the entire computer population to play CS2. It's unrealistic.

[Anastasiia_koks^^]

So, what is the future of CS for MACs? Will we be able to play these games on Mac in the near future?

[LTJ]

Originally posted by Anastasiia_koks^^:

So, what is the future of CS for MACs? Will we be able to play these games on Mac in the near future?

CS will never be on Macs anytime soon. CS2 came out and Valve confirmed they are not supporting it on there. Buy a Windows PC.

[RANGER]

Originally posted by Anastasiia_koks^^:

So, what is the future of CS for MACs? Will we be able to play these games on Mac in the near future?

Just buy a gaming PC like a normal person. Why would you want to play games on MAC is beyond my understanding.

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Why would they waste the resources to develop this game to be able to run on Mac OS? How would those same resources not be better utilized to developing content for the pc user playerbase…
And if you are going to game on a computer why would you have a mac?

[.]

Originally posted by LTJ:

Because times change. The player base of computer games is 99% PC and barely 1% Mac. Even for gamers on a Mac, they don't play sweaty games like CS2. They play Sims or Civilization. You know, intellectual games because Macs are super expensive and it's a higher clientele than your average "PC Gamer" since kids are on Windows computers, not Macs.

More like 90% PC, 9% Linux and 1% Mac no?

[Winblows]

They probably only had csgo1 on mac because that was closer around when companies tryed making mac ports. but apple never actually made gaming worth while on macs.

[LTJ]

Originally posted by Saylor Twift:

Originally posted by LTJ:

Because times change. The player base of computer games is 99% PC and barely 1% Mac. Even for gamers on a Mac, they don't play sweaty games like CS2. They play Sims or Civilization. You know, intellectual games because Macs are super expensive and it's a higher clientele than your average "PC Gamer" since kids are on Windows computers, not Macs.

More like 90% PC, 9% Linux and 1% Mac no?

I guess, yeah. Point is, Macs are too expensive and gaming is targeting mostly to kids, young adults, and booms who grew up with gaming. Macs shifted tremendously over the years to more productivity, work, creativity, etc. Gaming on a Mac is very limited to intellectual games and not sweaty FPS games. It's just the reality of the situation on top of Valve probably not wanting to spend time, money, and resources for barely a few hundred CS2 players that have a Mac.

Just buy a Windows PC. Simple.