Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 02, 2004 08:46 PM
...and then linux users can play too<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:).
Seriously, though, folks - commercial java games devs are discovering that Mac OS X users are about 50-100 times better customers than windows ones. OS X users steal less, register more (probably partly because you have to be richer to purchase a Mac in the first place<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)).
But java games devs have almost no additional costs to supporting OS X + linux + win, and the client for all three is always released simultaneously...
(NB: there are significant problems with supporting OS X at the moment, in that Apple has some nasty bugs in their JVM; however, there are plenty of hardcore 3D games that run cleanly on all 3 platforms, mostly by using OpenGL for everything...)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 02, 2004 08:46 PMSeriously, though, folks - commercial java games devs are discovering that Mac OS X users are about 50-100 times better customers than windows ones. OS X users steal less, register more (probably partly because you have to be richer to purchase a Mac in the first place<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)).
But java games devs have almost no additional costs to supporting OS X + linux + win, and the client for all three is always released simultaneously...
(NB: there are significant problems with supporting OS X at the moment, in that Apple has some nasty bugs in their JVM; however, there are plenty of hardcore 3D games that run cleanly on all 3 platforms, mostly by using OpenGL for everything...)
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