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Ironically I had to buy a subscription to Nvidia to play BG3 on Mac with my friends because they silently delayed the Mac release on release day for 3 months.

I tried running it on Linux, game posting toolkit, and windows via parallels (another subscription, yay), and I could not fix the invisible textures.

They’ve since launched the game fully but it was upsetting they reneged on their release without so much as a word multiple times.

It’s a very good game now that it works for me.

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Weil if that isn’t the consequences of your choices.

Seriously I’m sorry for you individually that you were delayed that way - it reminds me of my fellow Linux gamers complaining about incompatibility though - while running Nvidia cards.

Macs are amazing pieces of hardware - and the price one pays is that one has to accept that some devs don’t want to climb the wall into that walled garden.

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Weil if that isn’t the consequences of your choices.

So it’s my fault that a studio with a good history, knowledge of the platform and has worked directly with Apple on their last game, with a working public beta running on my machine, decided to delay release without any announcement?

Larian are generally great, BG3 is awesome, the release comms were shit.

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Yes?

Last time I checked working with and for apple platforms is a pain. A release delay after a public test as you described is a strong pointer in that direction - or do you claim that was done out of spite?

Every (your currency) spent on apple supports this holier than you attitude.

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How is this relevant to the article?

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He’s wrong. It seems that people are trending towards game subscriptions like game pass. It makes sense, people won’t finish bg3 once let alone multiple times. They don’t need to own the game outright they can play it on their gsmepass subscription for a month then move on to whatever is in next month’s pass.

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Failed to reach target isn’t a sign gamepass is failing. They have 30 million subscribers. In only 4 years they’ve gone from 10 to 30 million and seem to still be growing.

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Didn’t imply it was failing, hell they’ve announced they’re making profit off of the service, I’m pointing out that your hypothesis that people are trending toward game subscriptions is weak.

Let’s look at it this way, there are 132 million active steam users and game pass is at 30 million with new game pass subscribers are beginning are slowing down and seeming like it’s reaching a plateau.

Here have another article that goes a little more in depth at the current situation with game pass subscribers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/10/24/why-has-microsoft-put-xbox-game-pass-subscription-numbers-in-a-black-box/?sh=249605a47167

I think that game pass is a fine product, heck I had it for three years, I just think your hypothesis is wrong.

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Good. This guy is not a piece of shit then, unlike that other guy who runs Ubishit.

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We have nothing to worry about because no one wants to play ubisoft games already, I already bought Assassin’s Creed seven times I don’t want to do it again.

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Oh dear he’s not been a good CEO is he, he isn’t talking out his arse at all.

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