WARNING !!! to Frictional Games : big surprise !

[anzki]

I was just going through Engadget's liveblog after getting back from work when I saw this. I wondered who they paid to get that...but of course, it's probably just that Amnesia happens to currently be the best selling game that is available for Mac or something.

I don't think this is a coincidence, but here's my estimate of how the discussion went:

Steve Jobs: We want you to feature something that shows the Steam app running on the Mac and will give us gaming cred.
Steam: Well, the best selling game for Mac is...
Steve: No, what's the best selling overall? We want something that doesn't highlight us as different, but something that shows us as getting the best games.
Steam: Okay. Left4Dead2 is the top seller...
Steve: Okay. That came out...last year? No, that just reminds people of the complaint that we get these games late.
Steam: Okay, well, we have The Polynomial
Steve: What's that?
Steam: It's a music rhythm casual game...
Steve: No, we want a game that will appeal to the hardcore gamers
Steam: Well, there's Amnesia.
Steve: What's that?
Steam: I'unno. It's some sort of RPG.
Steve: Fine. Feature that.

LoL!