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Shut up epic
Steam is still not updated to run natively on Apple Silicon-based Mac computers, nearly four years after Apple’s transition away from Intel CPUs started. It’s now a slow and clunky barrier to playing the games I own on my Mac computers—a far cry from the pro-consumer persona that Valve and Steam usually enjoy.
Kinda similar situation in linux where steam hasn’t been updated to use wayland. It’s flickery mess on nvidia hardware and a bit glitchy on intel and amd (like other electron/cef apps running under xwayland). Proton works great though.
As an ex nvidia and recent amd user on Linux, I’d say wayland isn’t ready for gaming. X11 is still great, and wayland is the sand dunes of Linux in that they just move too fast for valve to adequately offer stable support. Also xwayland is really what’s running most games, and that is just another layer.
Electron apps are shit and just a fancy chrome window get a real app or just use chrome --app=https://url.tld
All proton games are going to offer native Wayland pretty soon
Great points, valve is literally committing suicide as a company for not supporting a platform that is damn near irrelevant to then
There is way more evidence to support Steam only getting better over time than there is to support it going back to shit, like it was when it first launched.
Edit: Oh. Article is written by a Mac boy. No wonder. 🙄
Apple is the reason for lack of games, just at the app store money grab and total lock in.
Install parallels and then windows and play your games.
Oh, but they paid for the feeling of being the most catered for audience, that Apple’s ads communicate. Can’t be their mistake, so Apple must be fine, it’s Steam’s fault. /s
Your argument is interesting. I get that it’s upsetting that Mac isn’t well supported.
Valve isn’t obligated to continue supporting all its games and software features on Mac, especially when Apple’s reluctance to natively support Vulkan and other cross-platform technologies makes game development more complex. There’s no excuse for Steam on Mac…
You wrote the excuse/reasoning for Steam not to support Mac before saying there’s no excuse. If Apple enforces their control over their software and hardware by making everyone developing sign restrictive EULAs and dictating what technologies can run on their hardware, why does Valve have to play ball with that? Apple has had no interest in courting gamers to their platform for several years, so it is their problem why Steam has become unsupported. It seems like they even tried by converting their app to 64-bit just for Apple, then they get shut out because the architecture changes to Apple Silicon. How many hoops is Valve expected to jump through?
Epic is the company trying to be the Amazon, Walmart, etc. of the gaming industry by “disrupting” the existing ecosystem with free games every week, paying devs off for exclusivity with their fortnite cash. It’s clear as day when they take over is when they are sure to enshittify themselves.
GOG games I do support, but I’m just sad that they haven’t done much for Linux.
You didn’t mention itch.io, which has a well-functioning app (at least on Linux), and a revenue sharing model set by the developer, and a pay what you want scheme for buyers.
My primary complaint with Steam is the quality of the games.
I’ve had a Steam account now for… let’s see here… 19 years:
Being primarily a console gamer, I rarely used it until I bought a Steam Deck. Then I went looking for Steam exclusive games I couldn’t otherwise play on my Xbox Series X, PS5, Nintendo Switch…
What I found was a lot of garbage porn games, and a lot of garbage anime games, and a lot of garbage anime porn games.
It’s super difficult finding something worth while to play. So it’s not a surprise to me to see that the #1 game is eight years old:
You’re essentially complaining that of the 50k+ games on Steam, you can’t find a game you like, and you prefer being handheld and told what you like by console companies?
This is… a really weird argument. “Too much freedom, restrict me harder daddy Nintendo.”
I’m looking for Steam exclusive games that I either can’t or haven’t already played on other hardware. Not an easy task.
Why would a consumer value exclusivity on an open platform? Is this a tribalism thing? In vs. out group?
WTF, I’m having major deja vu here. Like this was one of the first posts I saw on Lemmy after I left Reddit because of all the API shit. I even remember seeing the comment of @MajinBlayze@lemmy.world.
This is the most ridiculous article I’ve read this year
Corbin has a clear bias.
