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Rumor: Valve wanted $1 million advance for Half-Life 2 for Mac

Why doesn't Valve care about Mac gaming? Gabe Newell says "there's never any follow through on any of the things [Apple says] they're going to do." Inside Mac Gaming has a slightly different interpretation on that, claiming that Valve's terms for bringing Half-Life 2 to the Mac OS involved a $1 million advance payment from whomever was handling the port, a big buy-in for a game that would sell exclusively to the Mac gamer demographic.

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Published: 814 days 4 hours ago | Rumors | PC

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Fan Tastic - 814 days 5 hours ago

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1 - What's the point of asking for a measly 1 million?

I doubt this is true.

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Captain Tuttle - 813 days 20 hours ago

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1.1 - Good point...

$1 million is a rounding error for these companies.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 814 days 5 hours ago

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looks like the rumor does have some substance. Apologies to dbzboy and News Bot for failing those stories. The first one just looked very suspect.

Back to subject: if true, when HL2 came in 2004, it was the most anticipated PC game of all time, so its not as ridiculous as it sounds. Seeing the arrogance in Mac vs PC ads, I would like to think they deserved it.

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ironwolf - 814 days 4 hours ago

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3 - There's a Mac gamer demographic?

Who is he?

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BrotherNick - 813 days 13 hours ago

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Me! I only play HL2 and the mods, and many people I know who have PC games only play that.

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Barreldragon00 - 814 days 3 hours ago

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5 - whats the point anymore

The new mac with the intel chip can install XP and play all the windows games and still have the safety of a mac when going on line.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 814 days 3 hours ago

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what about TF2 and CS:Source?

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Bonsai1214 - 814 days 2 hours ago

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you can run anything on bootcamped xp you can run on a windows computer, barring system requirements. for instance, i can't play hl2 on my macbook because it requires a dedicated video card, which the macbook series lacks. runs starcraft like a dream though.. haha

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bloodzombie77 - 814 days 2 hours ago

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Gabe Newell is a fat bastard who's a little full of himself (more than physically)..seriously, he makes good games, but he as a person sucks balls.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 814 days 1 hour ago

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you are a big loser

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Lotto - 814 days 1 hour ago

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Nothing wrong with asking for money since they would have to port the game to mac which takes manpower. Also i think they asked for the money to see how much apple really wants gaming for mac

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