Aspyr delays Guitar Hero III, they are now dead to me

ITS OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!

Seriously... You are this upset about Guitar Hero for Mac?!?!? Sad.

If that tragedy of a game, that proves Americans really are stupid, means that much to you then why are you attacking ASPYR? You're a Micro$oft X-BOX fanboy anyway, so get your fix on that pathetic platform... as well as your dream fix of being able to play a real guitar. Is 43 days between the console release and the Mac release such a huge time span that your addiction drives you to attack the first AND only supplier (dealer) of your fix on the Mac?
I walk by ASPYR on my work in Austin, Texas, all the time, and let me tell you... They are a VERY small company. My apartment is bigger than their offices! Without them there would be ZERO gaming on the Mac today. They were the only ones bringing big titles to the Mac for years. You are so lucky that you only have to wait 43 days between console and Mac releases.
The ONLY game I've ever bought for my Mac was Doom III, and I had no problem waiting over seven months for the Mac port by ASPYR!

So go back to your X-BOX and stop whining that ASPYR hasn't sent you a beta copy of the video game equivalent of Britney Spears. AND thank your gods that there are software companies, like ASPYR, that bring big titles to the Mac platform! Or do you even own a Mac?!?

(Bungie is who you should have ranted about [years ago], but then again...)

Oh yeah, bunnies are NOT cute.

YOu have to keep in mind that Guitar Hero 3 is mostly played on the PS3 and the XBox. Aspyr I'm sure has pumped a huge amount of money into getting it on the Mac platform. They are probably just waiting to see what the market looks like in order to make the most profit potential. You can't really blame Aspyr.

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Mike, You are entitled to get hot round the collar. You're as passionate and fed up as most of us are. MAC=Bad games. Throwing car driving and football games at us ain't going to do it either. How about some real commitment from developers. Things gotta change.

I found out about this game coming out, so I pre-ordered the game on Bestbuy's website, where the game was titled as the Guitar Hero 3-Mac/Windows platform, set to be released on October 28th. Seeing how games as cool as Guitar Hero never come out on Mac, I was really excited. Well the developers decided to move back the release date until November 12th, so there's another two weeks I had to wait. Finally, my Guitar Hero 3-Mac/Windows version arrived, on November 16th, where I opened it to find Guitar hero 3 for PC, not Mac. I then went to my local Best Buy where I complained and they told me that there was no Guitar Hero game out for Mac. So now we are all waiting for GH3 for Mac, where it looks like it will come out a full 2 MONTHS after it was said to be released. 2 months, as we gamers all know, will be long enough to kill the GH3 hype, and maybe even kill the game at all. I know several people who own Wii and Xbox 360 who have already beaten the game. By the time GH3 comes out on Mac, expect the fun of the game to be close to dead already.

I love Macs as much as anyone, but if you seriously think that Mac will EVER be a serious gaming platform despite YEARS of evidence to the contrary, you are totally delusional. Macs will never get the best games, and they will not get games when they're promised. This recent initiative to boost Mac gaming will be gone in a year when the companies remember that Macs are only 5-10% of the market, and less than half of Mac users will buy their games. It's just not profitable for them.

The best thing to ever happen to Mac gaming is BOOT CAMP! Install it, use it, play your games, reboot back to OS X for everything else. It's not that hard. Then you can play ALL the games on release day, and you'll never have to whine again.

Dear god people, a computer is a tool. wanna play games? buy a console. i laugh at the morons that spend thousands to build a pc to play games when a console is only $300. is it any wonder this country is in such a sad state?

In don't mind waiting for a quality port for the Mac. The thing that upsets me is that when said port it finally ready, the cost is the same as when it was new for the PC. By that time, the PC version has usually been drastically discounted.

Also, unlike PC games, Mac games always seem to stay at the price they were introduced at. Does anyone really want to pay $30-$40 for a collection of the original SIMS games and add-ons? $20 maybe, but certainly not any more than that.

I completely agree that Aspyr sucks... You forgot to mention that they announced, a while ago, the release of Man of Valor for the Mac. When the porting was almost over, they CANCELED it!!!

I agree that Aspyr ports have been well below par for a while now, but Mike is harsh. The last title I bought was Civ 4, and it runs like shit on my Powerbook. Aspyr have to invest a lot into porting titles over, and the technical challenges are certainly tough to overcome. Feral Interactive have done some amazing ports like the new (?!?!) Colin McRae, but the time it took them a hell of a long time to do that. Since bootcamp, Aspyr have had to fight to stay alive and find a new reason to exist.

I will no longer be buying Aspyr ports for my Powerbook from them, but I wish them all the best as they were almost the only company helping me game on my mac whilst almost everybody except Blizzard were ignoring my needs/wants.

Mike, RELAX !