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[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[โ€“] Sterben@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I am with Valve, who plays games on Mac anyway?

[โ€“] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Sterben@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ye, but why? Probably some deals between the two companies.

When Microsoft - Activision deal will finalize, you can forget about that too.

[โ€“] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 2 points 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.

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[โ€“] Fizz@lemmy.nz 28 points 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.

[โ€“] mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

And also Source 2 engine only supports Directx 11 and Vulkan

[โ€“] vivadanang@lemm.ee 4 points 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.