What about us Mac users?

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03-21-2013, 12:55 PM
Portabella

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Originally Posted by Dead_Phoenix

he was saying he agees with your figures

I was responding to his Wikipedia Jab :p
03-21-2013, 12:57 PM
Dead_Phoenix

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Originally Posted by Portabella

I was responding to his Wikipedia Jab :p

lol fair enough. but i will agree with him, that wiki has been know for its inaccuracys, on this occasion wiki did well and can have a biscuit :)
03-21-2013, 12:58 PM
Portabella

At the very least and with Cider ports, I'm certain the costs aren't as grand as you speculate. We're talking about integration, not a complete re-write.
03-21-2013, 01:02 PM
Portabella

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Originally Posted by Dead_Phoenix

lol fair enough. but i will agree with him, that wiki has been know for its inaccuracys, on this occasion wiki did well and can have a biscuit :)

It is true... community based after all. Still, if a kid can develop a cheap early test for certain types of Cancer with nearly 100% accuracy using Wikipedia as a primary research source, I'm not going to disregard it.
03-21-2013, 01:07 PM
Dead_Phoenix

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Originally Posted by Portabella

At the very least and with Cider ports, I'm certain the costs aren't as grand as you speculate. We're talking about integration, not a complete re-write.

tbh i wouldnt know where to start with a mac and coding. i cant imagion it would be to hard, but i suppose on big budget games, the priority is get the game launced then worry about ports later
03-21-2013, 01:20 PM
MacDeath

I am not a Mac hater. My NAME is Mac!!! My household has multiple Apple products as well as multiple PCs. It wouldn't cause me to be upset at all if Trion decided to make a native port for Mac OS. I just don't expect they will however. Why spend the money to pick up the very few players who only have access to a Mac and refuse to use boot camp?
03-21-2013, 02:13 PM
Valethar

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Originally Posted by Dead_Phoenix

but lets face it they still only have less then 4% of the market. and most of them are not exactly gamers.

Please don't repeat information that's literally years out of date. As of this past October, they're were at almost 14%. And there are far more gamers on the platform than you think, they just don't get much in the way of games because of biased outdated thinking like that 4% nonsense.

I'm actually shocked you said that without the slightest bit of research, given how you're usually more meticulous about things than that.

Yeah, 14% is still less than Windows, but it's steadily increasing, as are other platforms. If it was a platform that didn't make money, there would be no games on it at all.

One tidbit of history, just for fun. You know that Xbox franchise everyone loves to hate on? And the developer that used to be part of Microsoft's game stable? Yup, I'm talking Halo and Bungie. Want to take a wild guess where they got started?

Programming games for the Mac. The precursor to Halo was a game called Marathon. Before Microsoft bought them out and reshuffled the deck, Halo was slated to be a Mac/PC title.

The hardware is essentially the same on both platforms these days. The only real difference is the OS. Publishers can easily create the games, and there would be a market. Unfortunately few of them have the balls to actually do it.

Would they make as much as the PC alone? No, but it's obviously not that hard to do, and profitable enough to warrant the resources, or companies like Blizzard (WoW, Starcraft and Diablo), Aspyr (Bioshock Infinite), Firaxis (Civ 5), Electronic Arts, Bethesda (Elder Scrolls Online) and others wouldn't be publishing games for the platform.
03-21-2013, 02:35 PM
Lupis Volk

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Originally Posted by Twarrior

Doesn't MAC have an emulator application where they can run Windows games or does that not work good for high end graphics??

There's a program called bootcamp it allows you to run A PC OS on a Mac.
03-21-2013, 02:40 PM
Inori

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Originally Posted by Escyos

I'm sure Mac users are too busy looking for jobs. :D Just kidding.

I think there would probably be a Mac version or maybe the "PC" version is just fancy talk for "computer"

lmfao that first line killed me.
03-21-2013, 04:02 PM
Dead_Phoenix

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Originally Posted by Valethar

Please don't repeat information that's literally years out of date. As of this past October, they're were at almost 14%. And there are far more gamers on the platform than you think, they just don't get much in the way of games because of biased outdated thinking like that 4% nonsense.

I'm actually shocked you said that without the slightest bit of research, given how you're usually more meticulous about things than that.

Yeah, 14% is still less than Windows, but it's steadily increasing, as are other platforms. If it was a platform that didn't make money, there would be no games on it at all.

and i will point out to you the world is bigger then the US, given it was the latest figures i could for global market, at short notice (2008), (wasnt that desperate because i knew it wasnt far off) its only at 7%

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operat...10&qpcustomd=0

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