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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4832350" data-attributes="member: 19675">Its not injustice.  Its business.There are several surveys that indicate that Mac penetration of the gaming market was higher than WotC's market research indicates, and I have enough buddies in the computer game programming biz to know what it takes to be practicable.The simple truth is that its nearly as cheap to make a web based application platform neutral as it is to make it a hassle to less popular platforms to use.  By not doing so, they've shifted an otherwise trivial cost from producer to consumer- something I reject in any form of business.Or, to put it a different way, would you buy T-shirts from a company that charged $1.50 more per increase in size?  $1?  $0.50?Would you eat at a restaurant that charged more to fat customers?  To skinny customers?Again, they have every right to use whatever business model they want (as long as its legal), and I have every right not to use it if I disagree with that model.My personal experience tells me otherwise.  When I got my Apple 2e, there were far more games for it than for PCs.  After the Mac became Apple's platform, it wasn't until maybe a decade ago that I had any problem finding high-quality Mac games, usually the same ones my PC loving buddies were playing.  Even with PCs taking the lead, I could usually find Mac or platform-neutral versions of the top PC games pretty readily.And even today, I can usually find quality games.  My only problem is that, inexplicably, those retailers who stock Mac games don't stock them all...not even all of the popular ones.To illustrate, a buddy of mine told me about a game from his company that was available in Mac, PC and Playstation format, and the versions could be networked for multiplayer play.  I bought it- and it lived up to its hype.  Its sequel, though, could only be found on about 1/3 of the same retailers as the first game.Its not that there are no Mac games, its that they are not well publicized and not well distributed.Personally, the last console I bought was an Atari 2600, which died in 1991.  I own a Wii, but it was a gift (though I do buy games for it).  I wouldn't buy a PC for D&D.</blockquote>

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