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Steam comes to Mac, where is your God now?
March 4, 2010 by Dustin Triplett
Filed under Computer, News
Yep, you read that right. Steam is coming to the Mac. Besides getting our own Steam client, Valve was kind enough to come on out and “confirm” a few games that’ll be available when the client launches. Those games are Half-life, Team Fortress 2, Portal, and Left 4 Dead.
Since Valve is Valve, they went on and confirmed those games via teaser art.
The “Free-man” himself sporting an Apple logo on his chest.
My personal favorite, the Portal “I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC.” ad parody.
Team Fortress 2′s take on the iPod ads.
I’m not 100% sure, but I believe the above picture is Valve’s version of a Mac commercial from the early 80′s.
[Update: I was right. Here's a link to the orignal video.]
They put some work into this one. It’s a remake of a classic magazine advertisement. It’s hard to read, so I’ll attempt to transcribe it for you. Forgive me if I make a mistake or two. I’m not exactly going off the highest resolution picture here.
“Introducing Steam for the rest of us.”
Left side: “In the olden days, people had to go to the store to buy games. It was awful. Not many people knew how. And not many people wanted to learn. (Word I can’t read). Wallet manuals. Walking classes. Remembering to carry money. It was so complicated you’d have to be a store expert to understand it all. But then, on a bright day in Bellevue(?), (something), the people who didn’t go in stores got together with the people who make things for money to figure out a solution. After a half hour nobody had come up with any ideas, and tempers were running high. Then somebody had an idea: they should get into a fight.
Right side: “Later, at the hospital, a doctor said, “you guys should really invent something that lets you buy games without leaving the house.” Everybody told him he should shut up if he didn’t want a fat lip. “Man, I don’t want a fat lip,” the doctor thought, so he didn’t say anything more about it. A couple of days later, though, everybody agreed that mouthy doctor might have been on to something, and so they build a thing that let them buy games on their computers without leaving the house. “There’s different types of computers though,” said one guy. “We’ll figure that out later,” said another guy. And years later, they did.
Beautiful, I know.
Ah, Francis from Left 4 Dead. Always so pissy and hateful. Kinda reminds me of the PC dedicated. Oh, snap!
Seriously, though:
“So valve is basically giving a big FU to it’s original fanbase. Awesome. Thanks Valve. This is just another bullet to the head for PC gaming and PC gamers.” – Anonymous comment maker on Gizmondo.
Yeah, PC fanboys are PC fanboys.
And computers are computers. Giving Computer X games does not factor into the life or death of Computer Y. There will always be more PC’s than Mac’s. Computer X (or OSX, if you will) getting games does not effect you or your fellow PC gamers. We just make Valve a little bit richer. God forbid I buy a 4-year-old PC port. That would certainly cause the downfall of the United States of America.
It has yet to be known if Steam’s extensive catalogue of games will all be ported to the Mac, or if it will be strictly Valve only titles. I’m assuming it all comes down to the will of publishers and if they want to make the same game twice.
Oh, and there goes another +10 to Macbook Pro. This is really making the decision between a PC and a Mac harder for me. If Macbooks get Blu-ray drives and HDMI out I might actually switch over.
It's only the price tag on the Macs that kill me.
Yeah, I'll admit, the price is a bitch.
But I don't regret buying my iMac or Macbook Pro thanks to the fact I've had nowhere near as many problems with them as I did with my 10+ PC's over the years. Mainly because all Mac's are made by Apple and all PC's are made by 30+ manufacturers. That reduces the chance for error a significant amount.