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This is pretty old news already, but Feral Interactive (they’re responsible for making OSX-native ports of fairly big titles on Windows) is busy bringing X-COM: Enemy Unknown to the Mac. This is significant because any game that gets put on the Mac App Store that originally required Steam to be running in the background is removed, so I can choose to play this game whenever I want to even if I don’t have an internet connection at the time. I could care less about the graphical fidelity not looking as awesome as the PC counterpart (that’s where hackintoshs come in, after all) because I was raised on PC gaming back in the early 90s.
It still sucks that Apple is really neglecting the “gaming” crowd, but perhaps like how Dave and Busters handles arcade gaming (you will not see a fighting game present on the game floor at all because of the unspoken rule that those kinds of games attracting the wrong kind of crowd, but the environment is as close as you describe the bars of old days that housed arcade cabinets. As a matter of fact, the one I went to had a well-maintained arcade machine set to free play that allowed you to choose between mario brothers, donkey kong jr, and donkey kong), they’re encouraging specific games that don’t attract the stigma-laden PC gamer. Angry Birds was first released on iOS after all.Steve Jobs was a smart guy and got more things right than he got wrong. Everyone says, “He got gaming wrong,” as complaints about how gaming is neglected. But did he? What if Jobs got gaming correct? What if Steve Jobs understood the hardcore gamer and the debasement they bring? If that’s true, then…
Even Steve Jobs agrees that the hardcore must be destroyed!
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