Games you would like to see made for Mac

[Spawn of Totoro]

Please post the game(s) you would like to see made available for Mac/Apple computers here.

Remember, a game's developer/publisher has to decide if they want to make a game Mac compatible or not and/or add it to Steam. It is not Steam/Valve's decision to make. There is also no guarantee that the developer/publisher will read this thread or act on it.

It is recommended that you contact the developer/publisher of the game directly (by email or through their own forums) to increase the likely hood of that they will see it and know what their customers want.

[Dylan]

引用自 edtwozeronine：

Owning both platforms is the only sensible option for serious gamers. The fact is the Mac is still not supported enough, never has been. I've been a Mac user for over a decade and games companies don't want to know. Consoles are an option too for those wanting an uncomplicated user experience.

this is not totally true.. for example Fall Out and Bioshock they already exist for Mac, but just other stores sell them. would be great to find both also here

[Firefox]

Ya I'm pretty pissed that Steam has sales on a whole bunch of "Pc only" games. If they really tried they could make tons of money off of the mac community!

[R3450N]

Your best bet is to try using Wine for your MAC OSX. It's a good alternative to playing PC games on Linux/MAC + it's free and open-source. :-)

[Andrew]

I use crossover, which is Wine with support, in case you need help. But it would be nice to natively run the games, since there is no real reason for stream not having the games, other than it takes time to ask for them. It's not like they have to warehouse physical copies that may not sell well or something.

[Firefox]

Ya I agree, I'm going to start using Bootcamp/Parallels for almost all of my gaming needs, except for the games that are compatable for mac.

[BRA\\\]

As already stated, it's not always the original developer that creates the port to other platforms. There can be different reasons for this. It could be that they really want the game to be available on as many platforms as possible but just don't have the right programmers to do the port themselves. In this case they hire an external company to do the job for them and they can sell the game for all those platforms as one bundle.

Another case is when the developer already decided to limit the game to specific platforms just because they think that's the most marketable way to do it. Now, if another company shows up and says, hey, If you're not going to port your game we'll do it, just sell us the right for platform X. Now this is a totally different story. The company who bought the rights is now responsible for the port they release.They will have to keep the game bug free and offer support. The original developer has distanced himself from that specific platform. This is what happening to the games that are mentioned in this discussion. It's very impracticable to bundle products from 2 different companies as one single game. You can't just split the profit between both companies.

[Chardonnay]

Amen. We need more games for mac (and linux?). I hate it when I see a game that looks interesting and its only on windows.

[Nincorp100]

I hate it too, all pc games they have available now are games mac players would be more thean happy to get, some games i would like to get (but cant because they're all pc) are:

Saints row III
Terraria
Borderlands

[Firefox]

Ya agree one hundred percent

[Frodo]

Ya'll are idiots and here is why (mind you I speak from knowledge as a Mac user myself).

Porting games over to mac is easier said than done. You know how people say you can never catch a virus on a Mac it is because the coding for viruses that destroy pcs is different compared to a mac, and most house holds have PCs, why would someone go out of their way to write a virus for a computer when the said person could write a virus and destroy thousands if not millions.

Now take what I just said and put inot a business aspect. Mac coding is completely different than a PC and the average user is on a PC than a Mac.

Let us put into simpler terms say there is over 200 million pc users and there is only 1 million Mac users (hypothetical here), would you spend the resources to port over games to Mac when making bank lies within the PC community? And if the said company does not have the OSX software, they have to pay, plus the labor, the testers, etc, for they have to make sure that the game runs the exact same on pc and it did not break. So in this sense,for one game, it will be stripped bare and built back from the ground up.

[Andrew]

Gender, you missed the whole fist part of this tread. In the very first post I list out a bunch of games that you can already purchase on the App Store which Steam does not have, there is no reason for steam not to have those games.

[76561198082683481]

引用自 Blaze：

Gender, you missed the whole fist part of this tread. In the very first post I list out a bunch of games that you can already purchase on the App Store which Steam does not have, there is no reason for steam not to have those games.

I will give you that, mostly, however, there maybe a contract between Apple and said gaming company that prevents the computer versions of certain games to be released anywhere else. Pretty much saying "You can sell this game here and only here until said contract is up". And this would not be the first time Apple did something like this with a product. For example: Look at how long the iPhone stayed being an Cingular or AT&T product.



Also, to add another game to the list of Games you had listed off, Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition is on the app store as well.

[Janichsan]

引用自 Frodo.Firehawk：

I will give you that, mostly, however, there maybe a contract between Apple and said gaming company that prevents the computer versions of certain games to be released anywhere else.

Except that any of these games is also available everywhere else...

[Andrew]

I played Borderlands and didn't like it, but a lot of other people did. That's why I didn't list it. However as these games are available at several placed I think it's just Steam not making an effort to get the games in their Apple formats. It's annoying because I already own many of these games but my PC is dead and I won't be getting a new one anytime soon.

[76561198082683481]

I honestly do not know what it could be and why those games listed (and then some) to get them ported over to steam. I still sport the idea of apple and the gaming company in question sporting a contract to prevent the Mac ports to be released anywhere else (some games might an exception like BL2 due to popular demand.). What I just do not get is that their are games on the app store, Like the Borderlands: GOTY, have been there for a while (if it was a recent port to the app store, I can see why it would not be really released anytime soon) and not released via steam. However, I do not know what steps Valve has to take to do everything they have to do. I just do not like assuming it is Valves laziness ( they are hard press as it is seeing as they are a smaller company compared to alot of other gaming companies, and they are trying to get up there though)