Why are there not as many good online games for Macintosh as there are for PC’s?
Well I have been using my uncles PC for quite a while now and when I moved to Macintosh I loved it, but when I tried to download any games like 9Dragons, Last Chaos, Maplestory, and a lot of other MMORPG’s they wouldn’t work! I was upset so I asked my dad about this and he said that the Mac and PC software is completely different so the games I tried to download and play wasn’t compatible to the Macintosh’s software. So the question is, why is there more games for PC than Mac? I tried to look for games for Mac and all I find are these crappy arcade games. The only game worthy for Macintosh is World of Warcraft, but it sucks when your only 14 years old and you can’t pay for an account by yourself. My parents won’t allow it either, they say its too time consuming and if you play it it will surely get you addicted. I’ve seen some crazy news reports on Youtube about horrific lives some lv 80 WoW players live.
The short answer is, because Apple lost when it sued Microsoft for stealing its operating system in the early ’90’s.
The long answer is, because Microsoft is a corrupt, greedy monopoly and most people are too complacent and stupid to care about it.
Also most people who use pc’s, including for games, know next to nothing about how they work, and are not truly “computer literate” even though they spend hours on their pc’s every day. These people are not only happy to be completely dependent on Windows, they are in fact afraid to use anything else. Show them a command line and they break out in hives, remembering they days of MS-DOS and actually having to type.
So Microsoft gets away with monopolistic practices, such as… making users install Internet explorer with its OS; making its proprietary codecs, like .wmv, incompatible with other video players; making its office products incompatible with open-source standards like Open Document (the EU courts busted them for that last year); and greasing the palms of pc dealers to install only Windows on their Machines. So Windows has still over 90 percent market share, even though as an operating system it sucks.
Granted Apple is as “user-friendly” as Windows is, namely, you can use it without having any idea how it works, or how to configure its innards; but with Apple, it’s actually a good operating system. Windows is a bad operating system that you don’t have to be smart to use, and cheaper than a mac. So people use windows, including with online games. And because Microsoft has such monopoly-level market share, they can pay game developers to make their game only for windows. All monopolies grease palms to maintain their monopoly.
One way around this is Wine. If your Mac has an x86 cpu, though. If it’s the old powerpc kind, Wine won’t work. Wine is a windows emulation layer.
There is also the option of installing linux, the OS that will save the world from Microsoft. A lot of good games have porting applications that will convert a game from windows to linux. But the game still has to work on powerpc… and that is the other reason, besides how evil Microsoft is, is that games developed on Intel or AMD processors can’t just be ported to powerpc, unless you have the source code… you could compile the source code of a game if the developers release it, which they don’t do until it’s obsolete, to protect their own pocketbooks and because Microsoft pays them not to, probably.
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