Mac Steam opens up with free Portal

I was planning on getting it, but then i saw Portal was free!!!!! Thanks Valve!

Have to say that Its horrifyingly complicated to install with these stupid "case insensitive" restrictions. creating partitions , paths, sym linking....ridiculous...I gave up after a an hour...... Took 5 mins on my windows laptop. Shame really as the mac we have here is kick ass......Its like photoshop all over again

This is why I love Valve. They have fantastic games that they put a lot of love and work into and they know how to treat their customers.

Looks like the Mac section on GS might need to become more prevalent!?!?!

@shani_boy101 Indeed, thanks for telling me :).

@Autolycus Yes im sure that Valve did absolutely no market research into mac owners before rolling this out. I'm just curious what is your sample size that you took your stats from? "Most Mac owners"? sounds like a great statistic. Where did you study?

can we get a little love Mr. Valve for the PS3

PS I have a DUAL G4 and a QUAD G5 all PPC based, just like your PS3 and 360

intel only...ha ha ha. apparently nobody on valve has owned a mac. Most mac owners are still running their g3, g4 or even a g5 because they septn so much money on it and 3 months later something a million times better came out. 10.6 requires an intel based mac. My guess is, thats maybe 10% of the owners and i know I wont ever be one.

Valve always rocks, all their games are solid like counter strike :D

I was thinking of buying this for some time, now i'm like really GLaD I waited just a little longer!

Nice move by Valve. Free will always be free!

I payed for Portal and I don't regret it, but getting it for free is awesome!

I don't think gaming will catch on for macs even though alot of people have them. Everyone who buys macs will not buy them for PC, but I could see it making money if all the games are very scalable.

thank you valve

I am throwing out the B$ flag because I installed it on my 10.5.8 version and it plays just fine, whether or not it is supported is another question.

Say what you will about Episode 3... Valve continues to move in the right direction and do things like this that they really don't have to. I owned Portal since it came out in the Orange Box but 2 friends now are able to enjoy it. Kudos to Gabe and Co.!

It's free for EVERYONE :D

@Slash_out there's a nice little surprise waiting for you on Steam PC.

See, this is why Valve is so great. Not only they make excellent games, but with moves like this they show that they actually care for player base. Most awesome part of this Portal deal is that the game stays on your profile as if you bought it (both PC and Mac version). Now there is absolutely no reason not to try Portal (if there is actually anyone who hasn't played the game).

nice

This is great! The more people joining the Steam community the better for everyone using it.

Valve is one of the best and nicest developers out there.

A good move from Valve.

this is nice to see

@ Slash_out It's Also free for PC users! STEAM FTW!

Horay for everyone getting Steam!

So this is why steam told me to "Pray to Steve Jobs and Al Gore" instead of entering a password yesterday? It took me 3 hours to work up a smug and self righteous enough attitude before the logon screen would permit me to pass. And then it made me say global warming isn't just a Liberal environment worshipping religion just to torment me. And all I wanted to use was the voice chat! http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/bod.html

Geez, how about giving away Portal for windows user as well? :p. Should I load my steam account on a MAC to get it free?

YAY!!!

"The Cake is a lie" "There really was a cake"

@Artiau thank you man, Steam rules!!!

For the love of god people, this isn't about Mac vs Windows, it's simple about the greatness of Steam. I really hope this will give a boost to PC gaming in general. Consoles are gonna take over if stuff like this doesn't happen.

Also free on PC.

I saw this when I logged into Steam today and got really excited. I hadn't played Portal since I got the Orange Box back when it was first released for the 360, so it was a great way to revisit such a creative and witty game. And as a journalistic note, as of the writing of this comment, the last paragraph had "also" in every one of its sentences, and the third paragraph starts with "Mac for Steam," really careless mistakes that a couple minutes of proofreading could have remedied. It really just gives the impression that as a journalist, you don't care about your work.

This is pretty nice of them.

@Shawn45: You probably already noticed, but it's free for PC users, too. Plenty of time left to pick it up.

can't wait to try steam out. way excited!

This is free for everyone not just mac users... just got my free PC copy

Portal is a MUST, get it while you can ;D

FOR FREE?!?!?! QQ, I want an awesome game for Free on the PC version of Steam please!

Valve, you rock. Downloading this RIGHT now. (Come on Steam, update already! You can do it!) Oh, and Steam's cool too. First-time user here.

now innovative FPS for free Valve is awesome = fact CSS update FTW

/Gelugon_baat/ is so right. Listen to this man, he speaks the truth, I hate Macs but this is definitely a good move for the industry's sake.

nice, steam is awesome, I downloaded x-com on it and love it

perfect! downloading! :P

Nice one Valve. This could bring Macs into the mainstream for gaming. Not that I'll ever use a mac, but the more gamers the merrier I say :P

Illumination77@ The game gets registered to your account on Steam after you download it, this is no the case with trial games on steam or free weekend deals.

yai! more power to the computer players. hopefully this will help encourage more game producers to make computer games then console ports.

WANT WANT WANT!