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just wondering, but i saw this thingy for blasted PC's about America's Army, whichit was made by the U.S army , and is FREE, will be ported to MAC.

I know this has probably been asked before, but i am late on every thing here, so any news about this game being made for mac?

well...
i do know that the game cost 8million dollars to make...
but why would the army spend the money to convert a game to mac, when the user base would be less than 500.
mb i'm wrong, it could be a great game. i have the disk that was sent to me from the army, all i need is my pc  thats on order (secondary computer)

jeb knowing how cheap mac users are i bet you could get a lot more people.
-moo

Well, Mac users pay taxes as well so I'd hope that they wouldn't show favortism.  But I suppose they think we are too rich to consider joining the army...it is a shame to as we are much better shooters than those PC cretins.

Ok...so let me get this straight.....The Army makes a game for 8 million dollars and puts it out on the pc for FREE. Is this game any good?....Or is it some cheapy kiddie sing songy game to get you to join the Army? I mean yes 8 million is a lot to put into a free game...just wondering

oh come on...
Pc users are big fat trek fans who live in their parent's basement, why not recruit them to the army

So then when they go off to war...The mac users will take over Microsofts empire and when pc users get back from the war....BAM...it's all mac baby

they might not have the money to convert it to mac yet so maybe in a couple of months.

and on another note:

i dont understand y u mac users make such a big deal over pc users. pc users could care less about mac users, yet u all just go off and say "they cant shoot" or "they all live in there parents basements" when some of the best rs players r on pcs. its like u guyz r racists or something cuz some1 uses a pc there a bad person. wtf is that?

Lol Hazard it is like a law of nature. Mac user say PCs are bs and vice versa. PS2 against XBOX and GC, PS2 vs PC, VW vs Opel,...

As long as you have fun with the things you have the world is ok but obviously many guys are jealous about what other guys have and that they have fun with it so they try to backbite it.

This problem excists as long as mankind you can't do anything against it. Take it as it is Hazard.

hazard... mb you don't understand that i'm joking.
i'm a Pc user, infact i orded a P4 with a gf4ti a few days ago. plus i'm a computer science major in college.

AHHH Dammit...I was writing this post and I hit the delete button on the keyboard and it brought me to the Gen. Gossip section again so I lost everything I wrote dammit.  Has that happend to anyone b4?

Anyway, I will shorten what I was previously saying.

Now, why would the governement spend $8 million on a game to then give it away for free?  I mean after Spet 11th didnt the US government put forward a Bill that will cost millions on the Nations new defense war against terrorism?  They have put themselves in debt by aquiring new technologies, etc and they give the game away for FREE!!  Someone has been smoking a little too much reeefer to me.

Also, Pyrex I love your thoughts about how one day our world will once again  be controlled by the MAC world and that we will have shrines all over where we stop and bow our heads in patronage to the MAC.  "Hil-Mac"
;)

And Hazard, Jeb is not saying that PC ppl are BAD, I think wha he means and mb he would agree with me that PC users are just misguided, ignorant souls that were just not given some of the advantages that we fortunate ppl have had, by having us been introduced to such superiro machines  8)

Anywho cya on THE ZONE *cough cough* wtf am I saying!!!  I mean GR lol ;D

well nomad this game was prolly more then half made by the time sept11 hit so the money was already spent.  If they spent 8million why not port it to MAC?  Stupid army i am not joining until i get my copy damnit!
-moo

    Nomad, 8 million dollars is literally a drop in the bucket of America's budget. If I recall correctly, the 2002 American budget is upwards of three trillion dollars.

    Besides which, the $8 million is probably from the Army's recruitment budget, since that's the whole point of America's Army. Giving it away free is a very smart move, I think.

    I'd be surprised if they didn't port it. Porting only costs a few hundred thousand dollars, and it would expose a few million more people to the Army's propaganda.

Stfu hazard. Pc users hate mac users but you only play with Gamespy people.  The Zone ppl is what most of pc critisizm is intended for.  On my part anyway. And im with these people.  It would make sense to port it.  Mac users are way smarter and mroe fit that pc users.

Yea I find PC people not smart for some reason.

yea u find them stupid. thats judging one person. if i were to judge mac users off u id think they were ignorant, full o themselves, dickless assholes. but im not am i?

Well I really dont know you but you seem alright to me though. But I know one PC person who went to a hacker convention in Las Vegas. Okay what who would want to go to travel 2,000 miles to go there. FREAK!! ::) ::)

a hackers convention? is that like FBI sponsored or something to catch fat men who like to hack?

It is a fact that the most creative people in the world use Macs.  Pretty much every form of media (print, video, audio) use Macs.  I'm sure if computers were around in their current form, Albert Einstein would be typing his work into an iBook or something.

As a computer science major, you would actually be better off with a Mac. Most CS guys I know do all or most of their coding in Linux, and your box is way overkill for Linux.

Alex, they are not smart because if they were, they would've bought a Mac. ;)



Almost factual that is!
I was looking at a website and it had a poll going, it shown that a low percentage of PC Users had a college degree etc, whereas quite a high percentage of Mac users had college degrees etc.

I'll try to find the link and post it here sometime, but it was proven... Not necessarily the most creative, just that Mac is the computer people with brains use... Although I do notice alot of Mac guys on GR are Graphic Designers & Artists.

jt.

I am a graphic designer, and I would have not been on a Mac if it was not for my job.

I think the real reason y Mac studs hate PC homos, is b/c PCEES never leave anything legit. What i mean, is that someone always cheats, and in RS those client side aimbots are a fuckin thing to reckon with. Yes there are those who try to keep the game legit, but those are a little few b/c many ppl can;t take a loss.

And i could see the army doing that b/c they used the Rogue Spear Engine for a training game. i'm serious, the US army went to RedStorm and asked to help develop an army simulation with them, or already have using the RS engine. I read it on the Redstorm website like a month ago. So for all u anti-RS folkol, stick that in your pipe and smoke it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee----Hawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Yippppreeeee-Kiyeeeeeeeaaaaaaa

You see, PC's are the government's way to monitor you.  Macs was made by a hippy with all good intentions and not ever thought of monitoring your every move like Windows XP did.  My friend was just telling me how XP had gotten recalled because in the system, it had a file keeping log of all your activities, which was then being sent to MicroSoft who turned around and would sell the stats to researchers both public and from the government.  I am glad that I never heard of such thing on the Mac, and that is a main reason I still love them ;)  

In this new ARMY game, I personally see it as another recruiting tool for the ARMY.  They give it away free so lots can play it and they can pick off the most consistent smart players.  What I mean, is that I wouldn't be one bit surprised that logs of how you do and how smart you play are being sent to an ARMY recruiting research center in which they studied brain patterns to choose the best candidates for certain positions(Seals, Special Operations, etc.)  So while all the PC people go out and DL their free copy, they just DL'ed a way to be tested for certain positions in the ARMY without them knowing.  Pretty slick and smart.  Our future is going to be the kids anyways, so why not check out how they are thinking and using their problem solving logic.  Best way to get the smartest people to be trained for certain jobs! ;)

Rapid, you are a dumbass. It isnt surprising that you of all people would propose a conspiracy about the ARMY monitoring people and sending them off to a research lab.

Yes, the game is a recruiting tool - you see how life is in a simulated boot camp and you can train with real spec weapons and tactics. It has "goarmy.com" inside the game, but that is fair.

Research lab - lmfao. You are a total dumbass who knows nothing about anything. First off, to get into a Special Operations Unit, you must already be in the military and pass the most greuling boot/training camps imaginable. They wont pick some fat loser like yourself who sits around and plays computer games all day to join any of those units anytime soon. Second, they cant just pick people up and throw them into research labs...this isnt like your UFO conspriacies where you get abducted by aliens and they suck the knowledge out of your brain.

In conclusion, Rapid is a dumbass. Also, this game will never be ported to the Mac for free because of a lack of user base and multiplayer hosting.

Dest: It uses the new Unreal engine, not RS.

well im about to download it now but i have to wait on a line cuz im not subscribed to the stupid site. when i get the game and played it for a while ill give u guyz  a full report  ;D

aSs, you're a closed minded idiot since the day I met you and of course your premature brain wouldn't understand my opinion.  Hell, your the perfect guinea pig! ;D

aSs's opinion = shitty as always.

SWEET RAPID BASHING *HEAD BANGS*
-moo