" everything on macs suck dick soooooo "

Could finally convince me to buy a Macbook Pro, next year.

" People who say Mac users don't deserve it, it shouldn't exist, or they don't want Mac users to have it, are honestly pieces of shit.  "

Well Mac may have Steam now but if there wont be much games for the Mac then i guess it will barely matter. I mean Im still likely to play on my PC desktop more than my Macbook Pro due to the fact that some games like Battlefield: Bad Company 2 or others still wont work on my MBP unless I bootcamp it to windows. (unless of course if Steam comes to Mac then all the steam games are now Mac compatible then correct me if im wrong. :D) 

" Well Mac may have Steam now but if there wont be much games for the Mac then i guess it will barely matter. I mean Im still likely to play on my PC desktop more than my Macbook Pro due to the fact that some games like Battlefield: Bad Company 2 or others still wont work on my MBP unless I bootcamp it to windows. (unless of course if Steam comes to Mac then all the steam games are now Mac compatible then correct me if im wrong. :D)  "

The more platform (or OSes?) it's on, the better.

I think it's a big positive step for the gaming world and developers. 
They're realising the capability of Apple computers. I personally own an Alienware PC (which I obviously do much of my gaming on) and a Macbook Pro... I recently started running WoW on my Mac, so being able to run others is great news!

" @Cube said:

" @Clinkz said:

" @Cube said:

" @Gizmo said:

" Mac users are so far up their own arses i'm sure they won't actually get round to playing any games. They have too many important social events to check out no doubt. "

I have a Mac and I've played PC games primarily for many years, fuck off yeah?  "

Oh you know what he said was true. "

Not necessarily.   "

Wait.....someone is far up his/her ass because of a social event? Logic fail. "

" @ArcLyte: whaaaa? "

Wow. How could anyone be mad that a gaming service is expanding? And also what is with the Mac hate? Usually the people talking shiz have never actually used a Mac.  I have been using apples pretty much exclusively since 1999 and ask me how many viruses / driver issues I've had. The answer would be zero. No it isn't considered a gaming machine but I use it for work and recording with Pro Tools which generally works flawlessly. 
 
As I sit here I am trying to remove something called Antispywaresoft of an associate's laptop. What a pain.. but hey, at least it can run games right? haha. 
 
I am pretty pumped to have Steam available. Thanks Valve for making it happen.

"Wow. How could anyone be mad that a gaming service is expanding? And also what is with the Mac hate? Usually the people talking shiz have never actually used a Mac.  I have been using apples pretty much exclusively since 1999 and ask me how many viruses / driver issues I've had. The answer would be zero. No it isn't considered a gaming machine but I use it for work and recording with Pro Tools which generally works flawlessly.   As I sit here I am trying to remove something called Antispywaresoft of an associate's laptop. What a pain.. but hey, at least it can run games right? haha.   I am pretty pumped to have Steam available. Thanks Valve for making it happen. "

lots of "GOD! I clicked the button to shoot like the thingy on the screen said and the character on the screen shot me first! I'm going to make myself a latte!"  
/joke

" @VanderSEXXX: Exactly. They have to be coded to work with Mac's OS. Right now the only Valve games that will work with Mac is Team Fortress 2 and Portal. "

Noooooooo!  
I guess its good people with Macs can enjoy steam, but then again I dont use a Mac so it doesn't affect me in any way so I dont care.

" @Jayross: @buwchbach:  my opinion is that the vast majority of mac users have no need or want for a gaming service/ store such as steam, and the mac gaming demographic that would take advantage of a service such as steam is too small for valve to use as a motive to bring steam to os x. my point is that valve knows that it makes a large income from impulse buys of $5 - $10 games and sees an opportunity to effectively double it's income through impulse buys from mac users. such is the way of a large successful company in a capitalist economy. "

I suggest all Mac users get Portal (its free) and then buy Torchlight (only $10). I was also looking at Civ 4, but not sure how it would run on my mac. 
 
Looking forward to the future valve titles like the half-life series, tf2 and l4d2.

Like it!

So basically Portal runs like shit. 
 
 
Cool stuff.

So what API do Mac games use?  OpenGL? doesn't seem like anything new that they couldn't play before, just easier access to games.

@Wicked_Wumpus:

"Go back to your mommas basement you greasy faced nerds!"

Hey man, as I see you really want to bring peace (I precise this is irony because when am reading what you wrote... I'm not sure you'd be able to understand it). 
you must think you're a really clever person who would never waste time with some friends to play video game (especially if that's in a basement!! haha^^ ) 

So what do I ("greasy faced nerd" = you have such a great imagination man...) think about this...  

I don't like the fact that today, getting a decent fps for hardcore gamers like Battlefied 2 or 2142, is impossible. Why? 
 
Because now we need to cope with the increasing number of casual gamers, Like you, who are definitelly not ok with retrying several time the same level and whom taking care about their life level during a whole round is just unthinkable.  
So almost every kind of game is now undergoing casualisation.  
Fps: autohealing in BFBC2 and MW2 and i don't tell you about ballistic compensation (which is now like an old memoty from the past).  
So as real gaming is already almost dead, I don't see any good reason to be happy about seeing more casual gamer pussies who will ask for more casual games which will get easier and quicker to finish with always more paying additional content.  
 
Let's finish with a little fool guess: 
 
How does a Mac user aims his gun with this    in MW2?    

" So basically Portal runs like shit.   Cool stuff. "

I love it. It's one of the best decisions ever because Mac seriously need more games. Plus, if you already have certain games on the PC version, then you don't have to pay for the Mac version so it's cheaper. XD

Macs are not meant to be playing games on. Theyre meant to look pretty and smile.

I see no reason Mac users shouldn't be able to use Steam. It would do nothing to harm the PC aspect of it, and only serve to increase Steam's user base a bit. So really, I think Steam on Mac is perfectly fine.

It's cool for Mac users and doesn't hurt anyone.  How could you not approve?

It allows me to maintain a big cross-platform game collection that I can play wherever there is a computer. No discs to worry about losing either.. I like it.

I love running Civ 4 w/o having to bootcamp. Hopefully Steam on Mac will convince dudes at Firaxis to make a mac version of Civ 5