Oh EA, where art thou?

Those stupid assholes! They make up some bullcrap about loving Mac users just to get onto Jobs' presentation, and then ditch us like that? Just here for the good publicity, eh? And not another word after that. What the hell?! I hate EA!

Emailed Apple Games feedback, but don't expect much...

On that note, does anyone know if Leopard builds are using that fast bootcamp state, where you could quickly go back to OSX where you left off? They took the feature from the website, so I'm curious...

Stupid EA- can't trust them with anything. And the prices of Mac games is a joke.

Cripes. For some reason I decided yesterday I really wanted a new game. Went to the Apple Store (brick n' mortar) and discovered the shelf space for games has been halved - at least. Unless I wanted Sims or Railroad Tycoon, I had some slim pickins'.

Decided I may as well just finally buy Halo - it's onyl $29, right? Right? Yeah - right. It WAS $29, but the UB version is apparently worth $20 more. 49.99 for a game released in freakin' 2003!!!

Grrr.... so sick of this garbage. And they wonder why people pirate stuff.

(P.S. No, not gonna dual-boot Windows for gaming. If anything, I'm gonna send $400 Redmond's way for an XBox.)

Well, this is nothing unfamiliar for Apple fans.

Every year is the "Year of the Desktop" for linux and the "Year of gaming" for Apple. Every year it turns out to not be true.

You'd have thought everyone would get used to it by now. But.. at least Apple fans have an ace in the hole..they can always install windows and run their games :)

Not just when but how much? Anyone who's attempted mac gaming in the past knows about the "luxury tax" we pay on some games. For example: Command&Conquer:Generals Deluxe Edition, PC= $14.99, Mac= $54.99 at amazon.com.For generals?Why? Why? Why would anyone with an intel mac buy mac games? I must say that if it wasn't for bootcamp, I would have to buy a pc just for gaming. At first I thought new EA mac games(ports) was great, no more rebooting for gaming. Then I realized that even when we get it, will it be worth the extra money for not rebooting? Especially when you're actually playing the games thinking "this is the exact version of a 4 year old game playing 'natively' and yet it's somehow worth more than double?" for a mac logo? Not just EA, Aspyr's SimCity4 (mac)is $50 bucks at amazon. SIMCITY 4!??? If we do get good games like C&C3 or something, would it be worth the second mortgage?

I say hold your horses for a little bit and wait til maybe August 7th? or sooner? If by the end of August nothing comes then I'll probably be screaming "ea where art thou" as well

Same deal for me... I have been checking ea.com literally every single day in July and in the past few days as the month draws to a close I've sent a couple of e-mails as well. The first reply was your standard $6 /hr moron response, completely ignoring the detail of my message, and simply pointing to Aspyr. The second response admitted to the C&C3 release for the Mac but said the release date hadn't been decided yet.

So much for getting your hopes up. I can't trust EA anymore -- I'll just wait for Starcraft 2. They release their Mac games simultaneously and don't jerk people around with fake release schedules and then trying to just pretend the customers will stop bothering them when they don't meet them.

Ahh.. Cider, i got that off bittorent, have no idea how to use it tho, its so confusing =S

though i also did manage to get a copy of Hitman Contracts, which was ported from Cider, it works like its PC counterpart, just with the fact you cant play at a 16:10 ratio, which is the aspect ratio of my Macbook Pro = [

Recently a clean copy of Cider leaked on to BitTorrent. This makes it possible for people to port their games themselves. GTA San Andreas, Need for Speed Underground 2 and Far Cry already found their way to the Mac platform this way. If the game studios don't do it themselves, the community will do it apparently.