Mac publishers just get it
Dec. 31st, 2004 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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jenbooks new Palm at Comp-USA, I decided to get Tron 2.0 for the Mac. This was the first Mac game I have purchased, with almost all my recent purchases being console games and one PC (a whole $0.25!) game.
So I start installing the game. Not once are any administrative privileges used by the installer. And after the install was done, all 2.5 G copied to the drive, the install CDs get put away. No need to use one to play.
Contrast this to the average PC game, where you oftentimes have to be administrator to run, never mind install. And need disks even after going through multi-gigabyte installs. And how long have NT class OSes been out so that permissions can be sorted out properly? And what valid (to me) reason does a game *ever* need administrative privileges?
jenbooks new Palm at Comp-USA, I decided to get Tron 2.0 for the Mac. This was the first Mac game I have purchased, with almost all my recent purchases being console games and one PC (a whole $0.25!) game.So I start installing the game. Not once are any administrative privileges used by the installer. And after the install was done, all 2.5 G copied to the drive, the install CDs get put away. No need to use one to play.
Contrast this to the average PC game, where you oftentimes have to be administrator to run, never mind install. And need disks even after going through multi-gigabyte installs. And how long have NT class OSes been out so that permissions can be sorted out properly? And what valid (to me) reason does a game *ever* need administrative privileges?