Steam releases Mac stats, share drops to 5%

Having more games will certainly help. Thus far, apart from the Orange Box titles, it's been fairly pitiful. I've had to keep going over to my PC.

My MBP and Mac mini are both raring to go once they have the games.

I purchased a budnle of 5 games from Steam: Portal, World of Goo, Machinarium and others that I can't even remember.

Portal and Machinarium ran well, which is good as they were the ones I wanted. I am definately not a gamer at heart and just wanted some fun games to fool around with occasionally.

BUT, the 3 other games wouldn't even run, I have a brand new 13" MacBook Pro. I was extremely dissapointed as I feel that since I meet the system requirements the games should just work.

I've also had a hard time getting support as Steam doesn't support games that are developed by other companies...from what I understand. I've searched through the developers forums and support with no success. I've also contacted support with no solutions being provided yet.

Left me in a position where I will never purchase from Steam again being worried they just won't work.

Has anyone else had issues with any of the "simpler games" available on Steam?

I just recently was able to log back in after an update to the Steam client mucked up the login process. I do need to put in some hours on portal and TF2 though.

Where's my L4D, Valve? Come on already! You said it'd be ready in the Spring of 2010... :-(

Not enough game selection for me. I enjoy playing half-life 2 but the other games don't do it for me. I just want a game to go in and play. I want to run around, blow-up crap with a butt load of different weapons and get out.

Online Multi-Player games are popular. But for me, it's just not my thing. Puzzle games are fine to kill time between projects or to wrap up a lunch hour, but I don't need Steam to play those.

I've simply been too busy playing Starcraft 2.....

Yeah, I'm not really I'd want to play any of those Steam games, which are just stupid PC clones anyway.

Now, if Steam had the really good, addictive games, then maybe I'd bother. Angry Birds, Doodle Jump, and all those games that TUAW reviews with high acclaim, then maybe we can start talking.

Just a thought on the comments in the article about the 5% of 25 million users being Mac users.

The 5% means 5% of the active users this month NOT 5% of 25 million registered clients. It's a big difference :)

When were the numbers polled? My kids started school a couple weeks back and weekday gaming is pretty much off limits.

Whatever the case, though, at least (in our experience) their games run without much issue (unlike EA; "Spore", which the kids love, always seems to crash and freeze). And there's something new from time to time (unlike Aspyr, which will port something and then just leave it hanging w/o bringing Mac users the last expansion pack of a game; e.g., "Roller Coaster Tycoon").

I have Steam for Mac installed on my 27" iMac (i7) and I also have "real Steam" installed on said iMac (Boot Camp). One version has about 7 games I can play, one has 53... When all my id/Bethesda titles like Quake and Fallout work on my native OS, the Boot Camp partition is getting promptly deleted!