ARR/Heavensward for Mac

[Tannlore]

you might be able to get the game working with wine, I know wine works with the macos. dunno how much trouble you need to go through to get wine working though.

Do we know 100% for sure it will be a wine wrapped program? I haven't been able to find 100% confirmation from SE on this myself. Really looking for some clarification.

[Wildsprite]

Do we know 100% for sure it will be a wine wrapped program? I haven't been able to find 100% confirmation from SE on this myself. Really looking for some clarification.

if they used transgaming cider it is wine with heavy tweaking. but to be fair I know little about this only what people have said in this thread.
some confirmation as to whether it is infact transgaming cider that was used for the macos version or if it is infact a full port would be nice.

[MiniTofu]

Yes, you will need to purchase the FINAL FANTASY XIV Online bundle (containing A Realm Reborn and Heavensward) to be able to play on the Mac version of the game.

Why we have to pay twice? In that case I rather stick to Bootcamp on Mac.

[MiniTofu]

Squenix could have allowed PS3/PS4 players to download the PC client and be able to play yes, but they didn't. They could also allow PC players to download the Mac client, but they might not. Sharing a Windows and Mac client is a LOT more common than sharing a PS3/PS4 client though.

I agree, the Mac client is going to contain the Windows files inside the Transgaming Cider wrapper. Everyone can open it and check it out the Application file. It makes no freaking senses to have different charge $59 for a client wrapper that uses internal same Windows.

SE, we are not stupid.

[Millerna]

if they used transgaming cider it is wine with heavy tweaking. but to be fair I know little about this only what people have said in this thread.
some confirmation as to whether it is infact transgaming cider that was used for the macos version or if it is infact a full port would be nice.

They said in the live letter where they confirmed the Mac client, that they are working together with a Canadian company called Transgaming. Transgaming is generally best know for their Cider wrapper. Like you and others have already said, it's not as bad as an emulator, but it's not going to be as smooth as a native client. For those already playing using bootcamp, there's no reason to get the Mac client, especially if the client isn't going to be free. For those who aren't comfortable using bootcamp, or just don't want to, the Mac client is going to perform well enough.

[Wolftamer]

Just out of curiosity, if the Mac client just happened to appear on your Mac, what would prevent the client from not knowing it wasn't purchased? Are we gonna have to add a key to use the Mac Client?

[Lexia]

Just out of curiosity, if the Mac client just happened to appear on your Mac, what would prevent the client from not knowing it wasn't purchased? Are we gonna have to add a key to use the Mac Client?

Just happens to appear on your mac? Not sure what you getting at there but the data installed won't do any good unless you have key registered to your account for that system, So yes you will have to have the key added to your account to be able to use the mac version.

[Wildsprite]

Just out of curiosity, if the Mac client just happened to appear on your Mac, what would prevent the client from not knowing it wasn't purchased? Are we gonna have to add a key to use the Mac Client?

each client sends a code back to the login servers when you log into the game. if the login servers see a client code not registered for your account they send back a negative to the client.
which is what will happen with the mac client if you don't have it registered.

wait till the game is released on the mac someone from wine hq will likely examine to see if they can come close to re producing what cider does for it. keep in mind that while transgaming puts back into the open source pool of wine they purposely hold back code for long periods of time which is why their product runs better in a lot of cases than wine, and it is not against the rules so long as they add their code eventually.