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[IMG News]

TransGaming has announced the launch of GameTree Online, the company’s digital distribution portal for Mac video games. The service will provide consumers worldwide with the ability to purchase and download game titles from leading publishers, plus obtain game news, participate in promotional opportunities, and write game reviews. Continual updates are planned for the portal, introducing new titles from leading publishers and developers, presenting Mac consumers with a mix of strategy, action, sports, and family games.

In addition to offering global distribution for new game releases, GameTree Online will offer publishers and developers a channel to distribute their back catalog of games. Through the use of Cider emulation TransGaming plans to release titles that haven't yet made it to Mac, as well as enter into digital distribution agreements with publishers and developers owning popular Mac titles only available in select countries.

"Our GameTree Online launch marks the new age of Mac gaming around the world, and will make it easier then ever for Mac consumers to enjoy the games they love. We are expanding our current relationships with leading publishers and developers beyond Mac enablement, with our Cider Portability Engine, to offer our partners a global distribution strategy that meets the rapidly expanding consumer demand. This allows greater revenue generation opportunities for all parties,” commented Vikas Gupta, CEO & President of TransGaming Technologies. “Cider has quickly become the industry standard for Mac gaming and with GameTree Online we plan to release new titles regularly and establish our position as the leaders in Mac games digital distribution,"

Consumer access to video games through Internet download services has become a very popular strategy for both Windows-PC and console games in recent years. GameTree Online will now enable the Mac gaming community with comparable services, focusing on Mac games selection and global consumer access. The Mac user community has the highest broadband utilization of any desktop computer demographic, making the launch of GameTree Online a timely and logical step in the evolution of serving the Mac community.

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[Janichsan]

Big words once more from our "friends" at Transgaming.

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Consumer access to video games through Internet download services has become a very popular strategy for both Windows-PC and console games in recent years. GameTree Online will now enable the Mac gaming community with comparable services, focusing on Mac games selection and global consumer access.

About time. There are of course no other download stores for Mac games – especially none that deal in any way with casual games.

IMG News, on June 10th 2008, 11:07 PM, said:

"Our GameTree Online launch marks the new age of Mac gaming around the world, and will make it easier then ever for Mac consumers to enjoy the games they love. ...”

“Cider has quickly become the industry standard for Mac gaming and with GameTree Online we plan to release new titles regularly and establish our position as the leaders in Mac games digital distribution,"

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA... Good joke.

[dr.zeissler]

now transgaming has recognized his corret target group, that's the casual gamer !!
by the end of this year, no company will use cider to get games on the mac, because
NO ONE WANT'S THIS popsnizzle.
If there a casual games or old ones, then cider will be ok, but actual games don't work with cider
and if they MUST work with it, then there will be so much quality and performance-losses that
older native mac games look und perform far way better.

doc

[Janichsan]

dr.zeissler, on June 11th 2008, 01:26 PM, said:

by the end of this year, no company will use cider to get games on the mac, because
NO ONE WANT'S THIS popsnizzle.

Except EA.

But that's not necessarily a sign for good quality...

[XxtraLarGe]

Hopefully they'll start to offer more than 3 games...

[dr.zeissler]

no that's not my point..it is better for EA to do none more of these s-f-cider stuff.
these ports are really -bad-, because the games are far too expensive, have low quality,
only a few effects and perform very poorly against native ports.

don't buy those things!

cider does not give anything positive for the mac gaming market.

only my opinion.

Doc

[Nox]

“No waiting,” it says on their web site. I waited three days—as no one minds the store on weekends or holidays—after my purchased download failed, only for one of their “customer service” representatives to try and blame GameTree’s failure to deliver on “problems at my end.” Never mind that the traceroute to their file server failed at two hops somewhere between the U.S. and the Netherlands, where their servers are located, and that I was able to happily download files from plenty of other locations during that time—without having shelled out precious dollars for them, mind you. Of course there are no refunds once they email you an activation code. Real useful, to have an activation code without the software to activate. Their customer service then advises me to subscribe to OpenDNS and change my whole network setup so I can download the bloody game. At this point, I don’t even want it any more, but hey, since they’re keeping my money no matter what, I don’t want to feel completely hosed, right? My advice: stay away from these amateurs. There are plenty of other companies out there who actually possess the expertise to operate an online business. And for the few titles they offer… definitely NOT worth the headache.