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Jan 15, 2002, 01:32 PM
 
That PC users get upset when they find out a company has been working on a Game for the Mac?

This thought just crossed my mind because often we get upset becase we're put in 2nd place to PC development.
So do you think a PC gamer would think

"Darn those Macs! If the company wasn't wasting time developing for mac they'd be able to work on my game!"

Just a though
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Jan 15, 2002, 03:13 PM
 
Nowadays, most Mac versions of games are ports of the PC version. For Mac ports of PC games, PC gamers can't make that complaint, the Mac port is usually done by a separate company from the PC game and from the PC code after it's been implemented in the PC version.
In almost all cases, I think the Mac version also takes second or third priority to the PC version due to marketshare.
The only thing I can think of is maybe some design work of games and network design of games may take into account that it may need to run a Mac and cause some slowdowns for the PC version.

Can anyone name a new game where the Mac version wasn't a port?
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Jan 17, 2002, 10:53 PM
 
I believe Diablo II for Mac & PC as well as Myst 3 for Mac & PC were developed simultaneously and individually (in-house, of course).

So, technically, I guess that eliminates them from being "ports."

But yeah, Mac games are 95% ports (and often rather crappy ones... ).
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