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- MrGG ( @MrGG@lemmy.ca ) 40•1 year ago
I love reading the comments on Mac Rumour articles when it’s negative news for Apple’s platforms or services. To paraphrase: “Vulcan bad!” “Lazy Devs!” “But they support Linux?” and “What a dumb business decision!”
Yes, Apple zealots, Valve is absolutely going to support your vendor-specific graphics API on a platform that they aren’t making much money from, and will continue to support and test that platform for years, operating as a charity because they love Apple so much 😂
- LiveLM ( @LiveLM@lemmy.zip ) English48•1 year ago
One of the comments said
You can expect this to continue happening for as long as Apple pushes Metal and refuses to support Vulkan […] If macOS wants to get anywhere it has to be a case “why not support it” instead of “we need to make a Metal compatible version of our engine”.
And I couldn’t have said it better myself
- SterbenDeathGun ( @Sterben@lemmy.ml ) 35•1 year ago
I am with Valve, who plays games on Mac anyway?
- bdonvr ( @bdonvr@thelemmy.club ) 8•1 year ago
Blizzard used to support Mac very well. Diablo and WoW always supported Mac. Valve as well, most Valve first party titles released for Mac. Played lots of Portal 1/2, CS:GO. Also played Minecraft, Sims, KSP.
- SterbenDeathGun ( @Sterben@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Ye, but why? Probably some deals between the two companies.
When Microsoft - Activision deal will finalize, you can forget about that too.
- NuPNuA ( @NuPNuA@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
MS have been pretty good at putting their games in rival stores to appease regulators, I could see them trying to get them on Mac too, especially with apple playing for the games market now too with their new chips.
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 28•1 year ago
Mac locks so many people out of their ecosystem I have little to no sympathy. Apple has the money to bring this game to Mac if they really wanted.
- mr_MADAFAKA ( @mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 year ago
And also Source 2 engine only supports Directx 11 and Vulkan
- vivadanang ( @vivadanang@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
uninstalled it today, it’s really a gameplay downgrade from cs:go and that wasn’t my fav cs by far.
really shitty that they basically took cs:go away too. yeah, I dig the levels and lighting and crosshairs but otherwise the experience, both multiplayer and even bot practice gameplay was pretty meh.