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Opt out of betas, restart steam! 11GB download, lol.

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[–] sanctimoniousn0rth 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Non-trivial development costs for a niche market. The website has said there's no mac version planned for a year or more. Most games don't bother with mac releases and that trend will only increase now that Apple is firmly decoupling from the PC hardware ecosystem.

[–] sanctimoniousn0rth 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info. It just looks great so I’m bummed I can’t play it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

~~If you buy it on Steam, you'd be able to play it through Proton. I assume Proton is available on Macs, but I don't actually know; please check and don't hold me accountable.~~

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apple did take Wine (well, CrossOver, but that's wine-based), adapted it for Macs, didn't create a merge request for a single line of code, and ended up only advertising the new tool as a demo for how well games run on their hardware to incentivize ports, with no intent of using it as a compatibility layer for players.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

What a great move👏😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

wow; I just dug into it. I had no idea but I guess it makes sense on second thought.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Basically Apple doesn't want games on their platforms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It'll be in console before Mac.