So, once upon a time, I bought a pack of games from Paradox (CK, Hearts of Iron, Victoria) for $20 and they shipped me a disc and I installed the games on my Mac, and started playing. (Loved CK, and even started an AAR. Struggled a bit with the commerce aspect of Victoria, but did okay with it. Could never master the combat engine on HoI and eventually abandoned it.)
Time passed and computers wore out and I think I lost the disk. But no big deal, I just transferred the installed game files to my new machine and kept playing. Didn't keep up with newer games, because I use Macs and besides, I'm not made of money. But I was happy.
But then…my comp wore out again (I'd had that MacBook Pro for so long the "e" key came off) and although I ordered a pre-owned version of the EXACT SAME model (with more memory to increase speed). some clever person had actually snuck Catalina onto it. Meaning that my 32-bit games were now dead, dead, and very dead. (And not just the Paradox games; my baseball simulator is no more, either.)
This made me grumpy as anything. (I mean, I'm still mourning when Mac moved to High Sierra and I couldn't play Civilization IV any longer, because I loved hearing Leonard Nimoy read the tech-discovery announcements.). But I eventually un-grumped and decided that this gave me the impetus to modernize. Went to the store and discovered that not only was there finally a Mac version of CK2, but now there was even CK3! Bought that, and grabbed an EU IV as well (because, hey, only $10).
One problem: I'm now completely lost. Can't figure out how to download my games and have no understanding (or any desire, tbh) of how to play on Steam. I just want my games on my computer (Mac OS 10.15, Catalina) so I can play.
Help??
Time passed and computers wore out and I think I lost the disk. But no big deal, I just transferred the installed game files to my new machine and kept playing. Didn't keep up with newer games, because I use Macs and besides, I'm not made of money. But I was happy.
But then…my comp wore out again (I'd had that MacBook Pro for so long the "e" key came off) and although I ordered a pre-owned version of the EXACT SAME model (with more memory to increase speed). some clever person had actually snuck Catalina onto it. Meaning that my 32-bit games were now dead, dead, and very dead. (And not just the Paradox games; my baseball simulator is no more, either.)
This made me grumpy as anything. (I mean, I'm still mourning when Mac moved to High Sierra and I couldn't play Civilization IV any longer, because I loved hearing Leonard Nimoy read the tech-discovery announcements.). But I eventually un-grumped and decided that this gave me the impetus to modernize. Went to the store and discovered that not only was there finally a Mac version of CK2, but now there was even CK3! Bought that, and grabbed an EU IV as well (because, hey, only $10).
One problem: I'm now completely lost. Can't figure out how to download my games and have no understanding (or any desire, tbh) of how to play on Steam. I just want my games on my computer (Mac OS 10.15, Catalina) so I can play.
Help??