Apple Launches Sale on Mac App Store Games

Disco Elysium.

If you like your games with exquisite writing, complex characters, a unique sense of world building, and have never played it, you owe it to yourself to check it out. The game literally has the depth of a well-written novel.

With developer permission, I hope. Though Apple should forego their 30% cut for such sales anyway.

Should Valve do the same thing during their sales too?

What I’m more curious about is how often such sale goes on Mac App Store? iirc it is not very often.

This App Store sale is only in reply to the steam sale currently on - the MacOS versions of the games SHOULD be available there too, it is incredibly frustrating that our game library's are forced to be fragmented in such a silly way.

I understand the need for multiple game storefronts such as epic and steam and others but the App Store has ZERO community features and makes owning games there feel terribly lonely and pointless - the Mac versions should be made available on an actual GAME STOREFRONT, not the general purpose App Store or at the very least put the games on both so consumer have an damn choice of where we want to buy our games.

Whoa, some seriously good options. A lot of universal ones, too.

Excited to play Death Stranding and Disco Elysium. Wish the RE4 remake was on sale!

I will never forgive Apple for killing Game Center because some bozo was upset about the felt texture. It was great to just open the app and see what your friends are up to (even if it was just mobile games).

Game Center is still a thing but it's been hidden away in a dark corner and even then it's a complete lacklustre attempt at a gaming profile.

Maybe Apple will try to argue their Apple Arcade subscription service is their storefront response to the likes of Steam etc. Just saying.

Apple Arcade is mostly laughable and really only has a very few games worth anything at all and I think if it wasn't for Apple One subscriptions absorbing the costs then it would most likely be a huge financial loss and failure as a service.

Apple and Valve (and even Epic is in this convo) need to get their s**t together and actually do something for the community - they will both benefit by having more gamers and its absurd that they are so stubborn to work with each other when its so clearly an opportunity for them all to win. EA even added full support to EA app and SIMS 4 because they understand how simple it is.

I find it absurd that Apple is so willing to work with Blackmagic and even show DaVinci Resolve all over their keynote when they are clearly direct competitors in the NLE realm with Final Cut - yet Apple and Valve are hardly direct competitors on anything really yet that are both so unwilling to work together on a mutually beneficial pursuit, like wtf??