Sunday, July 15, 2012

Will you spend more for Mac native games vs cheaper Windows versions?

I just ran into this with the current Steam sale. I haven't bought it yet but I had on my own little wish list, Tropico 3 from the Mac App store. The cost there is $30. I know Feral puts a lot of work into bringing a quality release of a game like this to Mac and can understand why it's priced the way it is.

On the other hand, today I can buy Tropico 4 with all DLC on Steam for half that amount of money roughly. The thing is going with Tropico 4 means I have to reboot into Windows 7 to play it. :-(

As a rule, I am just curious how many of you will spend more to play natively and how many will bootcamp, parallels, WINE, etc. to play a cheaper Windows release instead? I'm a little torn here and haven't really made up my mind but I am in this case learning toward Tropico 4 and putting up with the reboot.

This may sound stupid but on some level, I almost feel guilty not buying the Feral release and also dissatisfied with the prospect of having to reboot to play this game when I could just click and play instantly in OS X if I spent more money to do so.

I should add lastly, I am not a wealthy person by any stretch so cost matters but of course you can always make tradeoffs there such as buy less games but stick to native ones, etc.

Source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1404255&goto=newpost

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