Steam For Mac Beta is here.... Almost...

I got my hands on the steam for Mac beta, you can't do much with it right now, Man I can't wait, Portal 2, L4d2, HL:2 Ep3, TF:2 On my Mac?!! Yes please!
http://store.steampowered.com/macbeta/welcome/

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Yeah can't wait till steam for mac is all set. Hope more developers, other than valve, will jump on the band wagon and port their games over to mac :-D. One can dream right.

 

No, We don't want ports, we want native games like Valve is doing.

 

I don't see why they wouldn't, but I really hope they make Counter Strike Source on Mac. I'd finally be able to get rid of my bootcamp partition and only use parallels

 

All of Valves source games will be coming to the Mac.

 

a port can be native or non-native... good or bad

native doesn't mean good. I have a few games where the Windows version running under Wine actually runs better than the official native Mac versions.... because they did such a bad job porting it over. But its not hard for a Wine or Cider based port to run like 95% as good as a full good native port would run.... and better than a half baked long term unsupported native port would run (which is more typical)

 

as long as it's seamless, i don't care.

also, it's important to know that these days, games aren't built for one operating system or one console and then ported to the other systems. Games are built abstractly and then ported to ALL systems.

i would be content for some developers to build their games for wine as long as they do all the finishing touches themselves (ie, wrap wine with the executable) so that steam just works and the executable is a native executable. that's fair game in my book, as long as the original game is considered with wine in mind... most windows games have some degree of serious bugs in wine, very few run absolutely flawlessly (ie. certain combinations of graphics settings = crash or whatever), and that won't cut it if you are purchasing games from steam. they need to work.

so i would like to see the trend move towards developer supported ports (port is fine, bad port is not fine) to the mac platform. i would also be happy if we got some extra games early that worked properly with cider or wine with that technology built in seamlessly, and without much of a performance penalty.

 

When we say all of valve's games does that mean MW2 also? Since MW2 is technically made by activision.

 

only valve is porting their games... other games sold and handled through steam by other companies are not included.

 

we meant what we said. valve's games. MW2 is not made by valve, so we don't mean MW2.

*sigh*

for third parties, it's up to them to get their games on the mac store.

 

Exactly, there is a difference between Valve and Steam, Steam is a content delivery system created by Valve, Dev's can use Steam to deliver games to customers, but that does not mean Valve owns the games. All of Valves "Source" engine games will be ported to the Mac, Some of those games are: Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike Source, Half Life 2 including Episode 2 and 3 when 3 comes out, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, Portal 1 and 2 when 2 comes out, and the other odd games they have that are based on the source engine. MW:2 is created by Infinity Ward, and at the looks of what's happening, MW:2 will probably never get ported, unless they get a 3rd party to do it.

 

MW2 already has unofficial ports out there (floating around the web) using Cider and Wineskin that works on most Macs (not all)....

 

I'd be pretty excited as long as Valve doesn't double dip and make everyone pay twice. I know vast majority of the users who are interested in Mac native Steam already have accounts with games already.

It would suck to repay for games you've already bought.

 

They have already said, if you own the game on windows you can play it on OS X or vise-versa.

 

Its not here fast enough...

 

Here's some info for people that don't know it already.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/26...nce-chipset-limitations-closed-beta-underway/