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- eswat 16y agoOut of the 102 games I own, only 5 of them can be installed on Mac so far. Good enough for me though. Installing Torchlight, but Steam Cloud didn't transfer my PC characters over.
- TrevorBramble 16y agoDisappointing to hear that Steam Cloud data isn't currently (won't be?) portable across all supported platforms. Doesn't currently affect me as I use Steam games via Wine or on Windows directly, but I'm rather excited about the possibility of a native Linux implementation so I'm watching the Steam for Mac news closely.
- AgentIcarus 16y agoFrom http://store.steampowered.com/news/3820/ http://store.steampowered.com/news/3820/ : Win32 side support for Steam Play / Steam Cloud integration with upcoming Mac titles It's coming to Mac, and I imagine that'll come to Linux in time too.
- pavel_lishin 16y agohttp://store.steampowered.com/browse/mac http://store.steampowered.com/browse/mac Aren't all these games available for mac?
- eswat 16y agoSome games I have in that list aren’t showing up for me in the client.
- BigZaphod 16y agoYou're able to login? It won't let me.. :( Update: Nevermind. It's working now. :P
- danudey 16y agoI've downloaded two demos so far, and for both of them, once they're downloaded it says 'not available for your platform at this time'. Pretty frustrating. I went to the developers' pages and downloaded the demos instead. Not only were these downloads faster, but they actually work.
- medecau 16y agoIf you have a case-sensitive filesystem don't bother downloading.
- amock 16y agoDoes it just not work or does it detect that you have a case sensitive file system and not install? Most of Blizzards games work fine on a case-sensitive file system but the installers don't so you have to install on a different machine and then copy the files over. I guess they don't want to have more configurations to test, but it's annoying that they go out of their way to make it not work.
- tibbon 16y agoInstaller doesn't work and it wants things in your /library directory to be case insensitive as well. This just seems like poor/lazy programming that isn't aware of how a Mac (can) work. Seems like a quick patch, but Blizzard didn't do it for WoW or SC2 beta and its been a known issue for some time.
- amock 16y agoI was able to make Steam work by putting it on a disk image with a case insensitive file system and symlinking all of the directories it wanted to directories on that image.
- AgentIcarus 16y agoI didn't realise the link in the topic would cause a download (I opened it from my RSS reader and was surprised to see a blank tab!). Would you consider adding a [DMG] or similar to the title?
- calvinf 16y agoAgree. Linking to executables/installers is probably a bad habit - why not link to the download page itself so people can read more about the app?
- frou_dh 16y agoPeople were so desperate that they (found?) and passed around the DMG link before it was featured on the website.
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- mishmash 16y agoDear $deity yes thank you Valve. :) edit: No TF2 makes me cry.
- someone_here 16y agoMaybe there are right-click issues on the mac? Last I heard you can't click both right and left buttons (it simulates a middle click)
- amock 16y agoThe Mighty Mouse has issues with clicking both buttons at the same time since there is only one button to push.
- invisible 16y agoGive it time - TF2 is suppose to be out on Mac, hopefully later today or next week.
- mwilcox 16y agoThe engi update comes out soon, I'm sure it'll come out at the same time
- matrixownsyou 16y agomore games released: http://store.steampowered.com/browse/mac http://store.steampowered.com/browse/mac
- fletchowns 16y agoEverybody should go download Braid until they release some more games. It is one of the best games you will ever play! The music is amazing, the artwork is fantastic, and it will melt your mind trying to beat it.
- danudey 16y agoI can't vote this up enough. If you want a game that makes you think, that has an interesting story (which also makes you think), and which then makes you think about both of those in the context of time not necessarily being a linear forward progression, get Braid. Put another way, if you've ever wanted a platformer where you had to think 'Once I flip this switch, I have five seconds to have been over there', Braid is your game.
- frou_dh 16y agoI'll kick off the nit-picking ;-) It's got a fake Mac interface (doesn't respect the Graphite appearance preference) and normal copy and paste (⌘C ⌘V) don't work in some/all of the text fields.
- jrockway 16y agoI think you're entitled to a full refund.
- danudey 16y agoThis isn't just a 'free product'; it's an interface to a service that they make considerable money through. After years of being derided as a games-less platform, Valve finally brings Steam to the Mac – but does it pretty half-assedly. I know a half-dozen developers who could have done a better interface than this. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, and it's better to have it than not, but with the effort I'm sure it took to port the whole thing over to the Mac, I'm surprised that the little things (like copy/paste) don't work. It's great that they're treating the Mac like a respectable platform, but this is going to be a terrible introduction to any Mac users who've never used Steam. My first impression was 'It's slow, it doesn't work properly, it won't download Portal at all, and the demos it downloads don't work.' Not exactly high praise.
- danudey 16y agoScrolling on my Macbook trackpad is useless. I try to scroll as I would any other Mac app, and it shoots to the top/bottom of the window. WAY too sensitive. Also, another oddity I've noticed - start dragging the window from the bottom of the title bar, and drag it up against the menu bar. The window stops moving, but the cursor keeps moving as usual. Once you hit the top of the screen, drag downwards again. The Steam window moves immediately, even though the cursor isn't even over the window. I tried to set my profile picture via drag-and-drop, but it didn't work. Turns out I need to click the small sphere (actually a label-less button I think) to bring up a picker dialog. Once the image is chosen, nothing happens (no indication that you've selected an image) until you click 'upload'. Also, since images can only be 150kb, it would be nice if the app detected that. I know it's WebKit and all, but what's the point in having a native app if it's not going to take advantage of it?
- veeti 16y agoTelegraph is also reporting that a "Linux client will be released in the coming months": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7715209/Steam-for-Mac-goes-live.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7715209/Steam-fo...
- Legion 16y agoI hope they're right. One of the cool things Steam does is package old DOS games into an individual preconfigured DOSBox environment. My dream has been for Steam to do the same thing for Win32 games and Wine. Install the game on Steam, click to launch it, and it runs in Wine with all the tweaks needed to run that specific game already done.
- abossy 16y agoAre there plans (rumored or confirmed) to release the Half-Life series on the Mac?
- itg 16y agoyes, valve is bringing all their games to the mac
- tibbon 16y agoUnfortunately it doesn't support case-sensitive drives. I thought (for some stupid reason) since it's a *nix underpinning that it would be best to have case sensitivity last time I formatted. It seems that someone didn't write their paths in a flexible way (windows-like) and you have to reinstall your entire machine to run this. Steam isn't the only one effected however. The Starcraft 2 beta and World of Warcraft also don't support case sensitive volumes. Due to this I'm taking most of my evening and using Carbon Copy Cloner to dupe the drive and restore it as a case insensitive drive. I wish someone could have just done a .to_lower function at the end of their path strings.
- danudey 16y agoUnfortunately it doesn't say this anywhere so lots of UNIX/Linux converts don't know, but case-sensitive boot partitions are a terrible idea. As I'm sure you've found out, there are a great deal of large applications that don't support case-sensitivity (including, I think, Photoshop). Let this be a warning to anyone who considers it in the future: don't. You can use case-sensitivity on non-boot volumes (e.g. external drives) if you're concerned about case issues (e.g. moving data from another case-sensitive file system). Also, since the filesystem is case-insensitive (but case-preserving) anyway, you can add this to your ~/.inputrc to have readline completion (e.g. in Bash) ignore case: set completion-ignore-case on Makes life much easier.
- tibbon 16y agoWhy is this done so well and respected in *nix land, but in Mac-world no programmer takes it into account? Seems to be a massive oversight and easily fixed by companies like Valve, Adobe and Blizzard. Less than 10 lines of code could fix this problem.
- amock 16y agoIt takes more than a few lines of code to make sure everything works. You now have to test on both kinds of filesystems which doubles the amount of testing you have to do.
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- sirn 16y agoTried the Steam client on my Mac, Steam.app itself is a bit buggy and quite a resource consuming. The UI feels sluggish even on my i7 iMac, too. For the game itself, Portal works nicely at native resolution at max settings with lower framerate than Windows equivalent on the same machine. I found it surprising that exposé, dashboard, etc. works even in-game. While Magic Mouse works nicely with Portal, I'd rather not to try it on Team Fortress 2 when it's released as it cannot handle simultaneous left/right click.
- teilo 16y agoWorld of Goo works! Yeah! This is a seductively simple 2D game that is a lot of fun.
- cubicle67 16y agoWorld of Goo worked fine on the Mac pre-Steam :)