I'm thinking that release day may be June 3rd, due to Memorial Day. Though delays are quite common in the gaming industry.
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Steam releases for June 2, 2010
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Why didn't steam update with new mac games? (June 2, 2010)
Valve said that there would be new mac games every Wednesday, but it didn't seem to update this week. Am I missing something? I was Really looking forward to TF2.
Valve said that there would be new mac games every Wednesday, but it didn't seem to update this week. Am I missing something? I was Really looking forward to TF2.
As someone who has been promising a game for the last 3 years I know all too well about that 
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Hopefully we get something. I don't mind if its delayed, I'd just like to know if I should stop refreshing the store page every half an hour until next week!
.Hopefully we get something. I don't mind if its delayed, I'd just like to know if I should stop refreshing the store page every half an hour until next week!
Exactly, fair enough if there are delays there are delays, which im sure no-one has a problem with. The only thing thats pissing me off is the total lack of communication. Doesn't take long to just post something quickly on the news section or the steam forum does it?
What's going on is the forums have devolved into a set of pathetic whiners threatening class action lawsuits because they feel so aggrieved by the breach of contract by Valve for not releasing something yesterday ....
Valve themselves announced that they were giving TF2 additional time. And for the record, I never heard any promise by Valve saying that there would be any new mac games every week - I cannot see how they can promise that.
What's going on is the forums have devolved into a set of pathetic whiners threatening class action lawsuits because they feel so aggrieved by the breach of contract by Valve for not releasing something yesterday ....
Well they did tell us to expect stuff on Wednesdays and there has been no communication to tell us otherwise. I can see why people would get hella p***ed at that.
Is it a delay? Or is it nothing for this week? I don't know.
I'm not bothered either way, but it would be nice for Valve just to either say:
orvalve being responsible said:
valve being informative said:
Eh, they state right on the top of the Mac page that there will be new Mac releases every Wednesday for the next few weeks.
(or)
"sorry guys, we know you all bought this game back when it was only on the PC, and have been dual-booting your macs for 4 years just so you could play our games, and we have decided to engineer all of our old games to work on a completely different operating system, and on top of that, we are even going to let you use the licenses that you bought for Windows, even though we have no obligation to do so, and by all rights should make you pay for these games again because it is a completely different architecture (just like if it were on a console), and anyway we have some really, really terrible news: we're going to be an entire week late getting one of our games ported, and thus you won't get any new games this week."
Seriously. I'm as eager as anyone else to play some TF2 again, but get over it. You'll get it, very very soon. just chill out.
"sorry guys, we know you all bought this game back when it was only on the PC, and have been dual-booting your macs for 4 years just so you could play our games, and we have decided to engineer all of our old games to work on a completely different operating system, and on top of that, we are even going to let you use the licenses that you bought for Windows, even though we have no obligation to do so, and by all rights should make you pay for these games again because it is a completely different architecture (just like if it were on a console), and anyway we have some really, really terrible news: we're going to be an entire week late getting one of our games ported, and thus you won't get any new games this week."
Seriously. I'm as eager as anyone else to play some TF2 again, but get over it. You'll get it, very very soon. just chill out.
This week was an oddball because they announced that TF2 was given extra time. I wouldn't take that statement as any guarantee of anything - Valves forums are the beast place to get any updates on Steam anyway.
Hey, I'm not that bothered, I've never played TF2 before.
I'm just saying that Valve ought to announce this stuff so people don't complain and rumours don't start to circulate. (and also to put people's minds at rest).
I guess Valve like the hype though. Even if it is negative.
Was it just another nice customer relations bonanza move there by the folks at Steam?
If there is any dialogue at all between Steam and Mac users, then the courtesy of a timely notice would have been correct, appropriate, and positive. The decision to skip a Wednesday release without addressing any timely notice to their Mac clientele is probably a conscious decision, but it is hard to appreciate it's purpose as being positive for Mac users, who are probably justified in being annoyed.
It is interesting to see the reaction from PC gamers to expressions of exasperation with Steam by Mac users, (pc gamers like to refer jokingly to "steam time"). Are pc gamers using humor to apologize for and to tolerate a dismissive corporate attitude? If so, are the games worth it?
Will Mac users have to learn to accept being dismissed by Steam in little ways and find it humorous, the way PC users apparently have? Now there's an interesting game!
If there is any dialogue at all between Steam and Mac users, then the courtesy of a timely notice would have been correct, appropriate, and positive. The decision to skip a Wednesday release without addressing any timely notice to their Mac clientele is probably a conscious decision, but it is hard to appreciate it's purpose as being positive for Mac users, who are probably justified in being annoyed.
It is interesting to see the reaction from PC gamers to expressions of exasperation with Steam by Mac users, (pc gamers like to refer jokingly to "steam time"). Are pc gamers using humor to apologize for and to tolerate a dismissive corporate attitude? If so, are the games worth it?
Will Mac users have to learn to accept being dismissed by Steam in little ways and find it humorous, the way PC users apparently have? Now there's an interesting game!
Yes. Even if you think they have a dismissive corporate attitude. The minor inconvenience of waiting on something which is a totally non-critical entertainment product, regardless of what they do/don't say.. It's pretty insignificant compared to the experience once the games appear and the total work that they've put into them.
I have friends who play TF2 and the L4Ds hours and hours every week.. A little delay isn't really a big deal.
I'm disappointed with the lack of communication too but I'm sure they have their reasons. Just over a month ago we'd have laughed at the idea of Mac Steam at all.. I think we're doing pretty well sofar. But yes, it may be disingenuous of them to say nothing.
I'm more concerned about the lack of third party things this week (so far) than I am TF2.
Something is happening, I'm downloading a 63mb update to Portal and 43.4mb update to HL2. These aren't old updates...
Update information:
Updates to Portal, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Half-Life 2
Fixed crash due to long hud hint messages, seen when playing in French
Fixed Lambda logo at end of credits being cut off (Mac)
Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Fixed localized content not loading properly resulting in English audio
Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Improved frame rate on opening map
Fixed localized content not loading properly resulting in English audio
Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's
Portal
Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's
Update information:
Updates to Portal, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Half-Life 2
Fixed crash due to long hud hint messages, seen when playing in French
Fixed Lambda logo at end of credits being cut off (Mac)
Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Fixed localized content not loading properly resulting in English audio
Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Improved frame rate on opening map
Fixed localized content not loading properly resulting in English audio
Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's
Portal
Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's
ben is patient indeed
I award you the first sporadicannual lewdvig award for excellence and best internet post of the decade!
Yeah, I noticed the 4 patches or so today. Was surprised and looked for anything new in the store.
No biggie, just excited for TF2 being so close to a reality on OS X.
No biggie, just excited for TF2 being so close to a reality on OS X.
The pattern of Valve games released on Wednesdays goes: Single Player, NO VALVE GAME, Single Player... [NO VALVE GAME?]
Looks like Valve is releasing their games only every 2nd Wednesday and today just happened that no other Publisher released any game either.
Looks like Valve is releasing their games only every 2nd Wednesday and today just happened that no other Publisher released any game either.