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When the hell is Command and Conquer 3 coming to the Mac?!
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EA sucks ****, no offense to fans but they constantly disappoint me. And those stupid sports games, they rerelease them every year and make a complete KILLING on them. It's ridiculous, I want my CnC 3!
This sucks. Absolutely nothing. Well into August now and not a word.
Why would they specifically say July in June if they weren't absolutely ready?
Something fishy is going on, I read somewhere that at the iMac announcement journos were specifically not allowed to ask about gaming on the mac.
Why would they specifically say July in June if they weren't absolutely ready?
Something fishy is going on, I read somewhere that at the iMac announcement journos were specifically not allowed to ask about gaming on the mac.
Yeah this is pretty lame. Either they didn't really have a release date all along and July was just a weak way of saying "summer," or they have hit some sort of snag, likely on EA's end. I just wish there was some information on the issue. Right now it is dead in the water.
What sucks EA games
On a apple web page I read that ALL the EA games will be intel only. Sigh - of well one less CnC3 sale for EA
Here is for the hope that Apple will begin to port games to its 'other step family' of computer owners.... back to waiting 3 years for a hot game to arrive to the Mac
On a apple web page I read that ALL the EA games will be intel only. Sigh - of well one less CnC3 sale for EA
Here is for the hope that Apple will begin to port games to its 'other step family' of computer owners.... back to waiting 3 years for a hot game to arrive to the Mac
Yeah. It's somewhat of a racket. They won't even run natively on the Intel machines and though the performance hit from Cider is supposedly minimal, I'm still skeptical. I will certainly be purchasing C and C 3 when it does come out, if only to show that there is interest in mac games that don't require the use of boot camp.
The sad thing is, at the rate they are going, assuming they had their act together and cared about mac users at all, they certainly could have brought these games to both G5s and Intels and natively on both.
My opinion of EA was pretty rotten to begin with and this isn't helping. That said, it's not surprising in the least. Still frustrating though.
I emailed Apple asking what the hold up was.. here is their response:
The games announced by EA will be coming soon. Learn more:
http://www.apple.com/games/articles/2007/06/ea/
Regards,
Apple Games
http://www.apple.com/games/
... very helpful indeed.
The games announced by EA will be coming soon. Learn more:
http://www.apple.com/games/articles/2007/06/ea/
Regards,
Apple Games
http://www.apple.com/games/
... very helpful indeed.
Just saw this on ...
Tuncer's blog over at IMG...
http://www.insidemacgames.com/features/tuncersblog.php?ID=110
Apple is going to get a 90 day exclusive? Closest Apple store is over 100miles away from me. I guess I will wait after 90 days and get it with free shipping and no taxes from Amazon...
Tuncer's blog over at IMG...
http://www.insidemacgames.com/features/tuncersblog.php?ID=110
Apple is going to get a 90 day exclusive? Closest Apple store is over 100miles away from me. I guess I will wait after 90 days and get it with free shipping and no taxes from Amazon...
Personally if you have boot camp, I would just get the PC version. It'll probably be cheaper, and more up to date with patches and not to mention it'll probably have an expansion pack. The mac version might not even get the expansion pack for it.
apparently, apple have an online store now.
Really you can buy things online?
You mean like using the computer? They have that now?Hmmm...must be why I said free shipping and no taxes from Amazon. I'll wait a bit to see reviews, patches and save a few buc-aroos.
That probably is the best solution at this time. I personally can't stand running two operating systems since you have to do twice the maintenance to keep them both up to date. That and it's difficult to use windows when you have been using OSX for so long.
That said, I did try Command and Conquer 3 using boot camp and it ran very well. It's a very scalable game graphically, so even weaker systems can run it just fine.
Gamespot did a "Hardware Perfoamance Guide" for C and C 3. Here
Still. I would like to be able to run it on the Mac side of things, just because that's where I do all my work.
Well maintaining vista or xp in boot camp isn't that bad if you just use boot camp to do gaming. As long as you don't surf the net or check your e-mail in windows then you pretty much don't have to do anything, other than updating the boot camp drivers from time to time or automatically updating windows.
I use windows in boot camp just for gaming and everything else I use Mac and Parallels.
Most C & C usually get an expansion pack and if you get a Mac version, you risk not being able to play the expansion pack.
I'm a mac newb and I hear that macs are not that great for games. Oh yeah, feel your pain on EA being dumb with CnC 3. (always hated sports games anyway)
Depends on the game, the mac, and the settings you want to play at. A MacMini with integrated graphics isn't going to do so hot, a MacPro with an X1900XT will do better.
That figures, do you have any experience with games on a macbook pro? I'm in the market for one and was wondering how they deliver on games.
Yeah, all they say for release dates is "coming soon". Thanks alot.
Anyone try contacting EA directly?
That figures, do you have any experience with games on a macbook pro? I'm in the market for one and was wondering how they deliver on games.
This should give you an idea...
http://barefeats.com/santarosa.html