Comments on: Steam for Mac is now available and you can download Portal for FREE

By: Jazzman

Jazzman — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:13:31 +0000

I have been trying to download portal for about 3 weeks now, and it has about 10mb to go.
But the connection dropped before i finished downloading the first time, and now it keeps trying to download, getting to 22% then dropping out, saying “The steam servers are currently too busy”
Can anyone help with this?

By: Saman

Saman — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:52:18 +0000

Portal started to be boring @ demo18 ..

By: Mithalas

Mithalas — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:46:24 +0000

The only issue with this is steam needs to be on a volume that is case insensitive…. When you have but one mac it makes it impossible unless I want to tote around a second drive with me.

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:53:12 +0000

And just to be clear, Portal is going to be free FOREVER. (As long as you initially download it before the 24th) This means that you can also download and play it on ANY computer that you have linked to your Steam account, Mac or Windows. And having won 70 Game of the Year awards, I’d say anyone who doesn’t download it is going to be missing out severely.

Just keep in mind that there are thousands of people downloading the game from the Valve servers right now, so download speeds are crawling. Just persevere, it’s worth it.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:24:27 +0000

No problem, thanks for sending in the list! I haven’t tried Torchlight yet but Portal is fun.

Believe it or not I just have the cheapest local cable internet service and it’s really fast, although I rarely get 1.5mb/sec like that. 300-400k/sec is closer to average.

By: Brian Dunry

Brian Dunry — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:59:57 +0000

Thanks for the credit I am really looking forward to downloading this when I get home, Torchlight and Portal are great games.

BTW what internet service do you have?? 1.5MB/sec?? Holy cow that is fast, my DSL is envious.