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Gaming on Mac is rapidly approaching parity with Windows, ironically helped a lot by Linux and Valve

Neeek 10y ago
Are there many more studios outside of Blizzard that are developing for OS X? I hadn't realized there were more devs working with it. Every other game I know of that has Mac support is usually running in some WINE equivalent which isn't great. So we have Blizzard and Source engine, who am I missing?
EpicEng 10y ago
Ahaha ahaha... No, no it's not. I can't imagine you play any 'serious' games. Hell, even WoW, a game which is well supported by the developer on OSX, plays like crap on my $2600 MVP.
- rangibaby 10y ago
  CS GO worked good enough on Mac and Linux last time I checked
  - EpicEng 10y ago
    Define 'good enough'. These aren't inexpensive machines. In the context of gaming, $2600 is far too much to pay for a laptop that gets ~30fps at medium settings.
- IntelMiner 10y ago
  Going by my recently played list on Steam http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998185123/games/?tab=recent http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998185123/games/?... The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition: Win Team Fortress 2: Win/Mac/Lin Factorio: Win/Mac/Lin Rocket League: Win/Mac/Lin Particle Fleet: Emergence: Win/Mac/Lin SHENZHEN I/O: Win/Mac/Linux Oil Rush: Win/Mac/Linux Castle Crashers: Win/Mac Tropico 5: Win/Mac/Linux Literally every game I've played recently except ONE supports Mac Obviously I'm not a "serious" gamer :)
  - EpicEng 10y ago
    Well, I should have worded that better, shouldn't have been so dismissive. By 'serious' I meant 'resource intensive'. I don't know all of those games, bit the games I do know are definitely not very taxing on a GPU (aside from Skyrim, but what settings are yo uplaying it at? Does that seem worth it for the price tag?) I don't think you'd argue that a mac is a good gaming rig from a performance / $ perspective (or any other perspective really).

Neeek 10y ago

Are there many more studios outside of Blizzard that are developing for OS X? I hadn't realized there were more devs working with it. Every other game I know of that has Mac support is usually running in some WINE equivalent which isn't great. So we have Blizzard and Source engine, who am I missing?

EpicEng 10y ago

Ahaha ahaha... No, no it's not. I can't imagine you play any 'serious' games. Hell, even WoW, a game which is well supported by the developer on OSX, plays like crap on my $2600 MVP.

rangibaby 10y ago
CS GO worked good enough on Mac and Linux last time I checked
- EpicEng 10y ago
  Define 'good enough'. These aren't inexpensive machines. In the context of gaming, $2600 is far too much to pay for a laptop that gets ~30fps at medium settings.
IntelMiner 10y ago
Going by my recently played list on Steam http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998185123/games/?tab=recent http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998185123/games/?... The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition: Win Team Fortress 2: Win/Mac/Lin Factorio: Win/Mac/Lin Rocket League: Win/Mac/Lin Particle Fleet: Emergence: Win/Mac/Lin SHENZHEN I/O: Win/Mac/Linux Oil Rush: Win/Mac/Linux Castle Crashers: Win/Mac Tropico 5: Win/Mac/Linux Literally every game I've played recently except ONE supports Mac Obviously I'm not a "serious" gamer :)
- EpicEng 10y ago
  Well, I should have worded that better, shouldn't have been so dismissive. By 'serious' I meant 'resource intensive'. I don't know all of those games, bit the games I do know are definitely not very taxing on a GPU (aside from Skyrim, but what settings are yo uplaying it at? Does that seem worth it for the price tag?) I don't think you'd argue that a mac is a good gaming rig from a performance / $ perspective (or any other perspective really).