This is an insane amount of noise to throw out for such a simple point...
Valve made a new game: Instead of releasing it as a new game, they abused a loophole to force said new game onto people's devices without them having any say in the matter.
In other words, a piece of software they didn't ask for is being installed, and the software they did ask for is now hidden behind workarounds.
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Apple plays no part in any of that: trying to paint not abusing your digital distribution platform... as being equivalent kissing Apple's ass is nonsensical to the point of absurdity.
This isn't ass-kissing, this is me being a pedantic asshole so I can untangle your argument and refute the idea that people "lose access" to their game. I'm not fond of DRM when Apple or Steam does it, but the way Valve depreciated CS:GO is borderline unimpeachable.
- Everyone with auto-updating enabled got the new game installed by-default. Nobody lost access to anything but official game servers.
- The old game has support for third-party servers on every point release, leaving it perfectly playable today.
- Bonus points: A copy of the game's source code was leaked, enabling the community to unofficially support new systems if they want.
Mac users got the short end of the stick, but I find it hard to demonize Valve over it. The root of this entire complaint is that an auto-update didn't behave as it should.
Feel free to hate on whoever you want. I've heard a lot of people say that CS2 is bad on it's own merits, and that's fine too. I just don't think auto-updating to a broken build is some vast betrayal of confidence or anticonsumer row. It mostly feels like an example of how MacOS and it's users are getting left behind over petty business issues.
You're complaining about broken updates on MacOS. I'm having trouble parsing your arguement seriously in the first place; people have been warning against auto-updates on Mac for years.
Given that nobody had anything taken from them, I legitimately don't see how you could demonize Valve over this. There is no way for me to sympathize with you over this, as a Steam user or as a former Mac user.
So now you're conflating intentional breaking software by deleting it and replacing it to avoid having to fairly compete on distribution like every other new game release... with auto updates.
Pro tip: using blatant strawman arguments to troll works better if you don't go so hard in the paint defending them. The latter just makes you look incompetent.
My entire point was to break down your conflation that users would "lose access" to CS:GO. That is wrong, and you have not produced any evidence to contradict that. My "strawman" is not an argument at all; it's genuine shock that anyone who cares this much about auto-updates would use a Mac in the first place.
Valve made a new game: Instead of releasing it as a new game, they abused a loophole to force said new game onto people's devices without them having any say in the matter.
In other words, a piece of software they didn't ask for is being installed, and the software they did ask for is now hidden behind workarounds.
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Apple plays no part in any of that: trying to paint not abusing your digital distribution platform... as being equivalent kissing Apple's ass is nonsensical to the point of absurdity.