Tuesday, October 19, 1999

Mac Half-Life Now No-Life -- 5:05 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Blue's News is reporting that the port of Half-Life to the Macintosh has been cancelled, citing compatibility issues that just could not be worked out while still keeping the product economically viable. Here's a taste, from Valve's Gabe Newell:

However, as we got closer to shipping the product and reality set in, it was increasingly obvious that in order for us to break even on the Mac version, much less be profitable, we were going to have to cut some corners. OK - I guess we won't have Team Fortress Classic available at shipment. Maybe people will accept it if we update them with TFC later. OK - I guess I understand why we don't have an automatic update facility. Maybe people will accept that they have to manually update. OK - I guess I understand why we might carve out a separate multiplayer space for Mac users from PC users because of the on-going interoperability issues. Maybe that won't be the disaster I think it will be. But the more I thought about it, the more I felt that this was nonsense.

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News for 10/19/1999

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