Origin today released a 66mb update to their Origin client for OSX after last week announcing that Origin would indeed be coming to OSX after a successful Alpha period of only two weeks. So what does the new update bring us? Well it now brings us the entirety of Origins back catalogue of Mac compatible games which currently isn’t huge but it’s a start. Unfortunately, there really isn’t any other major feature to write home about, just yet. A nice surprise though was to see the hugely successful Batman Arkham series which had been successfully ported by Feral Interactive. The only snagging point on this was the pricing for the games at £19.99 for Arkham Asylum and £29.99 for Arkham City considering currently on Steam in PC format for £9.99 and £19.99 respectively. Another case of Mac user’s having their pants pulled down? Surely with Origin coming to a new platform it would learn from what Steam does and offer us content at a fair price. It’s bad enough we generally have to wait well over 12 months for a port anyway.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
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Origin sucks, Apple sucks...seems to be a good partnership. Too bad hipsters don't buy EA games. Or real games in general.
On the bright side, EA will probably never port it to Linux. Would be easy considering it's a Unix-Like OS, oh well. Hopefully not. Linux only needs, and only wants, Steam. And it got it. Woo. :)
im getting the imac so woo! i guess... lol im just gonna play a crap ton of half life killing floor and other stuff. lol
Some nice mature responses here guys. Appreciated.