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FlameFlash
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Minnesota, USA
Dec 2001
time: 23:36
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Nope. I'm done with mac gaming, period.
I might build my own windows computer after a while, but the wife and I are playing more games together now, and she's more of a consoler, coupled with MacSoft royally ticking me off, there's no way I can ethically support the 'Mac gaming movement' anymore.
Don't get me wrong, it's still my preferred OS, but if I really want to play Civ4, I'll go build myself a PC that can run it and at the same time buy everything for CivIII.
Plus maybe pick up Sims 2.
I'm sick of waiting, I'm sick of not being supported, and I'm sick of being ignored.
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jewelsterdefro
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Glad to hear about Rise of Nations coming to the Mac (finally), but I'm very distressed about all the expansions which seem to not be coming such as those for Civ III, Europa Universalis II, Majesty, Stronghold, etc.. Not to mention all the games that never seem to make it to the Mac at all like Civ Call to Power II, Axis and Allies, Risk I, Europa Universalis I, Diplomacy, Magic the Gathering, Clue, Battleship, Stratego, etc.. I'm very very frustrated by all this, but I'm not going to cave in and buy a PC for gaming like many people on this board seem to be willing to do because if people do that then they'll stop making games for the Mac altogether because the market for them will go from small to non-existent. Instead, I'm doing just the opposite. Although I have a PC which was given to me for free, I only buy games for Mac even if they take longer to get because I want to support the continued expansion of games to the Mac and the only way to do that is to boycot PC games altogether. Fight the Power!!!
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jewelsterdefro
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quote:
Originally posted by dojoboy
There is no expansion for EU2. |
I was talking about EU2: Crown of the North which I believed was an expansion to EU2 based on the name. I've since looked it up and seen that it's actually a stand alone game of its own, but my point remains the same (ie-no Mac version yet).
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FlameFlash
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Minnesota, USA
Dec 2001
time: 23:36
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Don't turn it into a Mac v Windows war, Agathon. I want my games to work, period. I want them to work as they were originally advertised to work while they were on development.
Mac gaming has been screwed enough that, as I have said, I am not buying another Mac game, period. I may go out and buy a windows laptop to game on, as well as perform my work, simply because, to me, that would be more cost effective than buying Mac games, which are overpriced anyway.
Let's look at Neverwinter Nights, for instance.
Great game, you can buy the PC versions of the expansion packs thanks to some work in the open-source community, but the Mac version of the game itself is only $10 less than that of the NWN DVD with all the expansion packs and the core game.
Is this right? I don't think so.
Does it make sense for me to game on my Mac? Not economic sense.
So I quit. I'm done. When I do finally get a PC I will track down versions of CtP, SMAX, and C3C and install and play them how they were intended.
So to answer your Windows v Mac question, yes, I would be fine with more Windows on my Mac. If VirtualPC was actually a viable option I would simply do that to play C3C among other games, but it is not.
When/if the Xbox 2-PC comes out, it will most certainly be on my "must have" list.
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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:36
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The Xbox 2-PC would be interesting.
The Xbox 2 has 3 PowerPC CPUs on a single core, supposedly at 3GHz, based on a chip that may become known later as the G6 to Apple (but as a dual-core, not tri-core).
MS owns VirtualPC, so one expects that aside from the PowerPC version of Windows, which already works, and DirectX/XNA, which already works, the x86 game code for PC games will be run through VirtualPC. It'll be interesting to see PC game performance, if the Xbox2-PC will exist at all.
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21-06-2004 20:13
and nothing seems to change ... when we'll get rise of nation, or the sims2 ? i'm really fed up to do not having the choice ... so i agree with flameflash : maybe that's a solution : working and doing everything with mac OS X but buying a damned PC for playing ...
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