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Edit: Looks like the GOG version is available for OS X, so I'm hoping that'll work. I guess I was just a little tipsy when looking at the GOG page since it's the holidays and missed it. Also, I didn't think about Steam gift cards/PayPal. That's another way of getting games on Steam without giving payment info. Thanks everyone for your help!

Edit 2: Just talked to my dad. I misunderstood his issue a bit with Steam. It's less about giving Steam his credit card (because you kinda have to give away your CC info in order to use it), rather he's not a fan of the fact that you have to log into Steam just to play your game. I think you can technically launch BG3 without going through Steam, but it's sort of a pain to go through the file directories in order to do so. Again, thanks for all the suggestions!

So, my dad's expressed interest in playing Baldur's Gate a bunch since it's come out and since I've been telling him about my play through. I also have great memories of playing Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance with him when I was younger on Game Cube so it would mean a lot to me to play BG3 with him. The issue comes down to his setup and stubbornness with privacy (I'm hoping Lemmy will have some good suggestions on this front).

The first hurdle is that he only uses Apple and doesn't want to get a windows machine just to play games, which IMO is reasonable. This doesn't seem too bad since, as far as I can tell, BG3 is available on Mac. The issue comes down to the fact that he doesn't want to download Steam and give them his credit card. He already has Epic because that's the only way he can play MTG online and he doesn't want to download another game client. Also, he has it in his head that you have to play all your games through steam. As in all your data goes to Steam before going to the game and you have to be online in order to play games on Steam. I think I've convinced him that this isn't the case, but he still doesn't feel comfortable giving them his CC. To be clear, he plays MTG without any in-game purchases so he hasn't given Epic his CC so he feels less bad about that although he's still not super thrilled about having to go through Epic just to play MTG.

My solution at the moment is to have him make a Steam account and I'll buy him BG3 for his Christmas present. Is this the best solution, or is there another way to go about it? I know BG3 is available on GOG, which he feels a bit more comfortable about, but I can't get a solid answer if the GOG version works on Mac OS.

Thanks for any help!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone else in this thread mentioned the GOG version works on Mac, although I can't see anything about it working on ARM, but I'd assume it does since it says it works on OSX 12+.

I've tried getting him into Steam, but he has some sort of grudge against it, idk why. Thanks for the suggestion!