Half-Life 2 for Mac: $1,000,000
- Scribbled on October 7th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Apple, Industry News, Mac, Shooter, WTF
If you’re a Mac owner and want Half-Life 2, you’ll have to donate $1,000,000 to Valve for them to port it to the Apple computer.
In a recent Kikizo interview, Valve’s Gabe Newell plants the blame for the absence of a Mac release of Half-Life 2 – and, indeed, most games – squarely on Apple’s shoulders. On the other hand, Inside Mac Games’ Tuncer wants you to know that it’s never that simple; he explains that while it’s true Apple met with Newell and nothing ever came it, it isn’t because Apple couldn’t stay focused (although we don’t doubt that for a minute) but rather because of “Valve’s insistence that anyone who wanted to port Half-Life 2 to the Mac had to advance $1 million to Valve.” In the scrappy world of Mac OS X porting, a meeeeelyun bucks is understandably hard to come by … up front.
Should Apple shell out the moolah to get Half-Life 2 on their system?
(Thanks, Joystiq.)
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