Spare a thought for the Mac players...
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Was just literally going to write this.. There's a reason most game developers don't bother releasing Mac versions.
Apple are not really serious about supporting AAA game development.
Good point. I assume you're talking about Star Citizen though.
As well I think you mean. There, I fixed it for you.
It would be downright foolish to pass up the opportunity.
And anyway, being an Apple customer I thought you would all be used to being screwed repeatedly by now, and saying thank you very much have some more of my money for the pleasure.
How was that?
Fairly inaccurate? I've been an Apple customer since the LC475 days, and I've never felt like I was being screwed, much less repeatedly.
Predictable.
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It depends- unless you can make each API behave exactly the same with similar performance for a reasonable return its fighting an uphill battle.
The other fun theory is that Apple never really needed to have a serious games API - because Bootcamp allowed Direct X the impetus was never there.
Nah. They wanted a serious graphics API that ran on both the Mac and iOS devices. Hence, Metal.
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i suspect you will get far more people sympathising with mac owners than the opposite..... however you always get a few people who just want to stir the pot, esp on the internet
are FD at fault in part? I dunno i have no idea about the complexity of coding for a new api, arguably however more forward thinking could have perhaps predicted this problem and maybe FD should never have offered the game to mac users in the 1st place??? however Apple have to carry part of the can imo.
I would be interested to know how mac users would vote on that one actually. would they rather ED had never come to the mac, or that it came and was deprecated like is happening now.
(obviously the best choice would be full mac support but that is not an option it seems)
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I fully expect the same sort of empathy as displayed after the cancellation of Offline Mode, ie. breaking Wheaton’s Law instead.
Mac users, you have my commiserations and hope that you may continue to play through other means. To those posters having a laugh at their expense, I hope your gaming platform of choice never suffers the same fate...
I can never get enough of that 5K display, so no.
Let's leave platform wars back in the Amiga/Atari ST era where they belong.
Off-topic, but I love your forum name. On my alt-account I fly as CMDR Moorcock, and I fly a Cobra Mk III named 'Jerry Cornelius'
Also my old gaming PC is 'Elric' and my new one is 'Mournblade'.
Its a shame they did not enable Vulkan (without the need for wrappers) so for Mac. Sadly now iOS will eat up everything else.
Rightly or wrongly I think they wanted an API that was under their full control.
To give Apple their due, Metal + iPhone hardware GPU wise is excellent.
I really don't see the issue here. I have a 2010 Mac Pro upgraded to my needs and running Bootcamp with Windows 10. Why would I want to game under Mac with its driver support? Yeah, it's not ideal but I completely understand developers not releasing games for a minor niche market segment. I also don't understand die-hard Mac fans who do not want to install Windows/Bootcamp. It's really no big deal.
For those with limited internal drive space it can be an issue. Plus you have to buy a copy of Windows, which is not exactly cheap.
Windows 10 is a load of Biowaste. Unfortunately, for PC gaming, it's pretty much the only option.