John Cook on Steam on Mac

[Evo]

Valve's John Cook has spoken to Joystiq about the upcoming arrival of Steam on Mac OS X, he reveals how important Valve see this move:[br]We consider this to be the biggest event in Steam's history since the service was first launched. There are several people involved, from the UI team working on Mac support in the Steam client to graphics engineers working on the native version of Source and our games. It's a big effort.[br]You can read the full interview here.

 

[eAi]

Mostly just the same line they've been repeating over and over.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I think Community was a bigger step in Steam's history.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

shhh, ace. We have to make the Mac hipsters feel special so they'll stop being such uppity ****s.

 

[knut]

shhh, ace. We have to make the Mac hipsters feel special so they'll stop being such uppity ****s.

am i an uppity ****, morganfreemannumbers?

 

[Reginald]

I'd say the expansion from just Valve titles to titles from other companies was the biggest step, followed by community, followed by this.

 

[Eejit]

am i an uppity ****, morganfreemannumbers?

That question is typical of an uppity ****, how ironic.

 

[knut]

is it really

 

[Asus]

The "biggest event in Steam's history" comment was in regard to how big the project is. It does more than adding value to existing PC games. And it's investing in a completely different market on a full scale instead of just a few games (Xbox 360). This is awesome for their market position for digital sales.

I bet the return on investment won't be bad either since this is a mature platform dropping into the Mac users laps. That combined with the lack of Mac games will probably spur sales. And then they can track and gain users with weekend sales like has happened with the PC.

I know Valve does not release Steam sales numbers but now with another platform it would be even more interesting to see to compare later on.

 

[Acepilotf14]

The "biggest event in Steam's history" comment was in regard to how big the project is. It does more than adding value to existing PC games. And it's investing in a completely different market on a full scale instead of just a few games (Xbox 360). This is awesome for their market position for digital sales.

I bet the return on investment won't be bad either since this is a mature platform dropping into the Mac users laps. That combined with the lack of Mac games will probably spur sales. And then they can track and gain users with weekend sales like has happened with the PC.

I know Valve does not release Steam sales numbers but now with another platform it would be even more interesting to see to compare later on.

But, will all those weekend sales games WORK on the mac?

Yes, we've gotten confirmation Valve games will work, but not all weekend sales are for Valve games. And I don't think they're going to force all of those devs to churn out Mac versions of all games on Steam.

 

[V-Man339]

Wow, misleading thread title.
I click the news, and I get commentary.
I thought John Cook was huffing the steam coming from a smoldering Mac, or some shit.

 

[bbson john]

John cooks Steam on Mac

 

[Asus]

By mature I was thinking community, friends, large user base (tons of PC users to play with). The deals of which publishers can be on steam is already there, they just have to port the titles if they wish. Which is an undertaking, yes and few will do it right away.