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Steam is a ticking time bomb. (www.spacebar.news)
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The decline of the Steam games platform is inevitable, and there are already warning signs.

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[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The piece about Mac makes no sense. That's purely a result of Apple's decision to drop support. In general, if you are interested in older games, MacOS is not a viable platform.

[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Macs also lack GPUs suitable for gaming. The modern ones are remarkably efficient, partly because they didn't jam a 4060's worth of graphic silicon into them. Why would they? Macs are for web browsing, media creation, productivity if you're in the C-suite and making other people think you're cool if you're in a coffee shop. Their users do not expect to run AAA games at 4k60fps.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Most the article makes no sense, but the Mac stuff is really weird. This 18 year old YouTube video is still accurate about the Mac part. https://youtu.be/2B-ekl_cEWk

[–] icecreamtaco@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's the opposite tbh. If you want to play emulators or old (as in 2015) PC games via Wine/VM, mac has you covered. It's newer games that are tougher because 80% of them don't get ports and Wine/VM will have to turn down the graphics to run well.

Even so, I can still run most modern games at medium settings with a low-tier, 2 generations old mac. Small price to pay for avoiding windows' godawful UX, ads, tracking, ai spam, onedrive spam, monthly subscription for solitaire, etc.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you provide one real world example? An older Windows game that works better on Mac than on Windows?

I will also add that 2015 is a random number. Win10 easily handles anything after 2005 or so. It's the pre 2005 games that often require some deal of research.

[–] icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've heard of some edge cases where Wine is now a better option than native windows for really weirdly built 2000s era games. But overall most won't run better since they have to use a compatibility layer. The point is they do run and my computer isn't just for gaming. Windows has gone deep into enshittification for ten years now, and it's worth trading some FPS to Wine to not have to live with that.

Also this only matters for new games. If you're a HoMM3 addict or only care about emulators there's no downside.