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Veroct Apr 18, 2019 @ 2:49am
DOES STEAM KEY HAVE SPECIFIC USAGE OPERATING SYSTEM?? PLS HELP
I'm gonna buy a BORDERLANDS: THE HANDSOME COLLECTION steam key and it says its for windows only, PLEASE HELP
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Cathulhu Apr 18, 2019 @ 2:54am 
Not sure what kind of sketchy store you found, but Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel run on Windows, Mac and Linux, which are the games contained in the Handsome Collection.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/8133/Borderlands_The_Handsome_Collection/
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Veroct Apr 18, 2019 @ 2:55am 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Not sure what kind of sketchy store you found, but Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel run on Windows, Mac and Linux, which are the games contained in the Handsome Collection.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/8133/Borderlands_The_Handsome_Collection/
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/borderlands-the-handsome-collection#system-requirements
not really sketchy...
thanks as well
Last edited by Veroct; Apr 18, 2019 @ 2:57am
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Cathulhu Apr 18, 2019 @ 2:57am 
Man, did they drop the ball on the requirements then. And yeah, Humble is anything but sketchy. Usually they present games better than that.
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Veroct Apr 18, 2019 @ 2:58am 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Man, did they drop the ball on the requirements then. And yeah, Humble is anything but sketchy. Usually they present games better than that.
so it works!???!?!!
pls answer
Last edited by Veroct; Apr 18, 2019 @ 3:01am
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Cathulhu Apr 18, 2019 @ 3:02am 
Yes, it will work on Mac OS X and Linux as well. There are no Windows only keys for Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel.
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Veroct Apr 18, 2019 @ 3:02am 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Yes, it will work on Mac OS X and Linux as well. There are no Windows only keys for Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel.
AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! THANKS!!! OF TO BUY!!!
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IzeyFro Dec 15, 2021 @ 3:41pm 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Yes, it will work on Mac OS X and Linux as well. There are no Windows only keys for Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel.
It's been over two years but I have a similar question with Planet Coaster. On Humble Bundle it also says Windows only but steam says it is available for Mac. Do you know if this will work? https://www.humblebundle.com/store/planet-coaster


Originally posted by BR34K:
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Yes, it will work on Mac OS X and Linux as well. There are no Windows only keys for Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel.
AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! THANKS!!! OF TO BUY!!!
Did it work for you? I see Humble Bundle now lists Mac on it's website, but I'm wondering if I can still buy Planet Coaster which is still listed as Windows only.
Last edited by IzeyFro; Dec 15, 2021 @ 3:41pm
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rawWwRrr Dec 15, 2021 @ 3:49pm 
Originally posted by IzeyFro:
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Yes, it will work on Mac OS X and Linux as well. There are no Windows only keys for Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel.
It's been over two years but I have a similar question with Planet Coaster. On Humble Bundle it also says Windows only but steam says it is available for Mac. Do you know if this will work? https://www.humblebundle.com/store/planet-coaster
If Steam says there is a MacOS version as well as a Windows version, you can run the game on either OS. Steam keys/licenses are not OS specific.
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Judgmental Amaterasu Dec 15, 2021 @ 3:57pm 
Originally posted by IzeyFro:
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Yes, it will work on Mac OS X and Linux as well. There are no Windows only keys for Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel.
It's been over two years but I have a similar question with Planet Coaster. On Humble Bundle it also says Windows only but steam says it is available for Mac. Do you know if this will work? https://www.humblebundle.com/store/planet-coaster


Originally posted by BR34K:
AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! THANKS!!! OF TO BUY!!!
Did it work for you? I see Humble Bundle now lists Mac on it's website, but I'm wondering if I can still buy Planet Coaster which is still listed as Windows only.

If Steam says it works on Mac then yes it works on Mac. As long as it is a Steam key that is.
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Quint the Alligator Snapper Dec 15, 2021 @ 4:02pm 
I know of Steam keys being region-specific, but I haven't heard of them being OS-specific.
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Count_Dandyman Dec 16, 2021 @ 1:18am 
Most likely these are cases where games didn't have Mac versions originally (The pre-sequel part of handsome collection didn't) and the Steam page got updated when they were added but other stores didn't or ones where stores are getting less confident about marking older or lower specced games as being available for Mac since they started dropping 32 bit support.

That said Steam tends to allow full access to the game for every OS from a single purchase or activation so you don't usually need to worry about not getting the Mac version apart from a few exceptions where publishers/devs have gone out of their way to list the different versions as different apps
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