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From: Rowland McDonnell on 12 May 2010 14:38 R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > I must say, I'm a little excited :-) Erm? I've followed a link to steampowered.com and I've seen a Website flogging computer games. What's there to be excited about? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jim on 12 May 2010 14:43 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > I've followed a link to steampowered.com and I've seen a Website > flogging computer games. > > What's there to be excited about? It's a method of bringing games to the Mac. Stuff like Half Life 2, Portal, Team Fortress, etc. It means a major games producer is taking the Mac seriously for once. By and large, this is a good thing, although I'll personally stick to my consoles for the most part. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Jim on 12 May 2010 14:50 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > It's a method of bringing games to the Mac. Stuff like Half Life 2, > Portal, Team Fortress, etc. It means a major games producer is taking > the Mac seriously for once. Sorry, that didn't really explain much... It's way of bringing new games to the Mac _at the same time_ as other platforms (mainly Windows, XBox and Playstation). Hopefully, the days of the Mac waiting a year for a game that's now old on the PC are behind us, at least where games produced by this studio are concerned. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: T i m on 12 May 2010 16:10 On Wed, 12 May 2010 19:43:23 +0100, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: >Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > >> I've followed a link to steampowered.com and I've seen a Website >> flogging computer games. >> >> What's there to be excited about? > >It's a method of bringing games to the Mac. Stuff like Half Life 2, >Portal, Team Fortress, etc. It means a major games producer is taking >the Mac seriously for once. > Or just harvesting the final ~10% of the market (assuming every Mac owner wanted in)? Cheers, T i m
From: Jim on 12 May 2010 16:23
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >It's a method of bringing games to the Mac. Stuff like Half Life 2, > >Portal, Team Fortress, etc. It means a major games producer is taking > >the Mac seriously for once. > > > > Or just harvesting the final ~10% of the market (assuming every Mac > owner wanted in)? Or perhaps they've seen the way the wind is blowing. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ |