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RangerSolo: My reason is simple. I have a Mac. While GOG does it's best to have as much as possible of the games here for the Mac plus Linux I wish more could be so but I am greatful that at this point that there are any games available for the Mac to run natively. Now I haven't checked since the beginning days of STEAM but I feel that they wouldn't lift a finger for the Mac users. Perhaps things have changed since then. GOG was easy for me to get a game and DL the installer. Which I keep safe in case I need to reinstall my game again. Again perhaps Steam does so to but my info of it is very old about it.
There's over 7k Mac compatible games on Steam? Can't say I've heard this argument a lot. (but then, I don't really pay attention to mac stuff)
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Desmight: If for whatever reason Valve drops the "indefinitively working offline mode" to push for a Blizzard always-online model tomorrow, most people won't care about it. Why? Because the online features of Steam are the reason why people keep using Steam: achievements, steam community, cloud saves, chat, screenshots and social. If Steam didn't have that stuff, it'd just be "a store". Today, Steam is mostly a "Gaming Social Network", the majority of its users treats it as such, and there's no point in an offline social network.
Before steam there were achievements and community tools from other programs. If you needed a patch or update there were numerous fileservers.
Steam killed them off with their inferior replacement although the Xbox with it's paid for service laid the groundwork.
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RangerSolo: My reason is simple. I have a Mac. While GOG does it's best to have as much as possible of the games here for the Mac plus Linux I wish more could be so but I am greatful that at this point that there are any games available for the Mac to run natively. Now I haven't checked since the beginning days of STEAM but I feel that they wouldn't lift a finger for the Mac users. Perhaps things have changed since then. GOG was easy for me to get a game and DL the installer. Which I keep safe in case I need to reinstall my game again. Again perhaps Steam does so to but my info of it is very old about it.
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Pheace: There's over 7k Mac compatible games on Steam? Can't say I've heard this argument a lot. (but then, I don't really pay attention to mac stuff)
Hi.
As I said. I haven't looked back at Steam since the beginning days of it. So I am behind on knowing what is really going on over there. That there are Mac compatible games is good to hear. I shall check to see what is all offered.
I'd be boycotting Steam except for specific Steam exclusives, except I frequently get gifted Steam wallet cards. Put out a wallet card, GOG, I'd so use that.
See pro Steamite's out in force as per usual. Havent bought any games on steam (let alone check their sales ) for about 3-4 years...
I avoid steamgames for over an year now, cause the price for many games costs more and more money than 3 years ago and they keep pushing prices so long low minded people buy it there.
Post edited May 15, 2018 by archon11
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Socratatus: No point wasting time in circular arguments with Steam psycophants.

Those of you who love love Steam so much why are you even here? Of what use is GOG if Steam is so wonderful?

Or is it the small sweet taste of no annoying DRM too hard to resist though you won`t admit it?
In my case, because GOG (when it was called Good Old Games) had older games that weren't available elsewhere. As for why I'm still here, I'm not going to abandon my library and account. Not yet, at least.
Checked out steam on what mac games they had. I had to manual do a google search to see only mac games there. GoG lets us search for games based on system and such even as a guest. Steam had nothing of the sorts. Plus most of the games that the Mac could use were mainly junk. Anywho, I don't think I'll be using steam for game buying.
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RangerSolo: Checked out steam on what mac games they had. I had to manual do a google search to see only mac games there. GoG lets us search for games based on system and such even as a guest. Steam had nothing of the sorts. Plus most of the games that the Mac could use were mainly junk. Anywho, I don't think I'll be using steam for game buying.
Doesn't sound like you put in much effort. Better to just ignore Steam.
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Socratatus: No point wasting time in circular arguments with Steam psycophants.

Those of you who love love Steam so much why are you even here? Of what use is GOG if Steam is so wonderful?

Or is it the small sweet taste of no annoying DRM too hard to resist though you won`t admit it?
GOG has some games Steam does not have

and vice versa

Are you really that much of a moron to not see that?
If there was any steam game that I wanted to boycott, it would be GRID. GRID got removed from GOG just a day (if I remember correctly) after I bought the game on steam. I was honestly looking forward on transferring the game to my GOG library once GOG Connect had it in its list before it got removed.
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RangerSolo: Checked out steam on what mac games they had. I had to manual do a google search to see only mac games there. GoG lets us search for games based on system and such even as a guest. Steam had nothing of the sorts. Plus most of the games that the Mac could use were mainly junk. Anywho, I don't think I'll be using steam for game buying.
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Pheace: Doesn't sound like you put in much effort. Better to just ignore Steam.
If I missed a drop down menu or overlooked an option to see Mac only games on the main page I'd like to know where to see it? As I said I didn't see so much unless there is something I'm missing on how steam organizes their site that I missed to see the full lists of Mac games.
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why would u boycott steam? massive sales, free cloud save, forum to ask questions, add friends for custom match. only prolbme i have with these launcher drms is that many publishers get there own and make their games only avaliable on their launcher, i dont want to install so many things to bloat my computer. i only have steam, gog, and uplay (only free games on uplay), i refuse to install origin and gfw to bloat my computer even more so they should make their games avaliable on other places. publishers are missing out on people like me by making their games exclusive on their launchers.

how does anyone game on pc without using steam????
Post edited May 21, 2018 by Cucked_By_Chad
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RangerSolo: If I missed a drop down menu or overlooked an option to see Mac only games on the main page I'd like to know where to see it? As I said I didn't see so much unless there is something I'm missing on how steam organizes their site that I missed to see the full lists of Mac games.
See picture 1 for the newest, top-selling and discounted MacOS games.
See pictures 2 and 3 for the full catalog.

Finally, if you want Steam to only show you games with MacOS versions, see pictures 4 and 5.
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Post edited May 21, 2018 by Grargar
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RangerSolo: If I missed a drop down menu or overlooked an option to see Mac only games on the main page I'd like to know where to see it? As I said I didn't see so much unless there is something I'm missing on how steam organizes their site that I missed to see the full lists of Mac games.
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Grargar: See picture 1 for the newest, top-selling and discounted MacOS games.
See pictures 2 and 3 for the full catalog.

Finally, if you want Steam to only show you games with MacOS versions, see pictures 4 and 5.
Thanks for the screen shots.

Believe it or not, I did the drop down tab for games but at that time no such listings for Mac OS X were available. I am on a PC that handles video content and such better than the other day I tried. I suspect that the way the school PC is set blocks certain things from showing up properly. I should had realized that. Anything on the Win 8.1 PC never shows up correctly while the other PC I am using now using Win 7 shows everything correctly on the web. Just can't watch youtube on the school's network. Anyway, going to re-look at it now.