I was going to continue playing this game...

[MythToken]

My machine has an Intel i7 and a GTX780M with 4 Gb of ram. I've also got 8 GB of RAM. Care to explain how that's subpar?

Because you overpaid, and you could have built that machine with those same specs or better for half the price.

Not to mention you will never be able to upgrade it.

Look Apple makes some beautiful machines, but they will never compete in the pc gaming market. It is why they don't even try.

[Sakei]

Because you overpaid, and you could have built that machine with those same specs or better for half the price.

How could you have built the machine? It's clearly a laptop, or an all-in-one due to the video card. How many laptops have you custom built? How many companies out there offer mac osx on their pc's?

[Delily]

Of course MAC has the hardware to run the games. Pretty much any company nowadays can strap a good CPU/GPU combo and call it a day.

People say Macs are inferior to gaming for two reasons:

1) Said gaming-capable hardware is completely overpriced. You are essentially paying extra to do what everyone else does normally. If you are on a budget, any regular PC machine will outperform a price-equivalent Mac. Heck, some Laptops offer similar or more power than desktop Macs in a price-by-price comparison, without counting all the extra goodness that being mobile offers.

2) It is very well known that most companies don't bother porting or properly maintaining games on Mac. Going to Mac expecting all the companies to support you akin to going to Google+ and expecting everyone to swap from Facebook so you can still talk to your friends. Heck, that is a pretty good comparison: Google+ was probably much better than FB, but nobody was there, so nobody wanted to go there. Mac is the same issue (Except for the being better part), so gamers stay clear of Macs.

This is why Mac is inferior for gaming.

Neither of your claims are valid. The Apple Tax is about price point and not about performance. The second is argumentum ad populum, I don't care what the other companies are doing (although both WoW and D3 run just fine on OSX). A selling point of Heavensward was the OSX client, it's reasonable for people to expect similar performance on the same hardware regardless of the the operating system and graphics engine.

[Delily]

Because you overpaid, and you could have built that machine with those same specs or better for half the price.

Not to mention you will never be able to upgrade it.

Look Apple makes some beautiful machines, but they will never compete in the pc gaming market. It is why they don't even try.

If I was going just for the hardware, I would agree with overpaying, however, I wanted OSX. That being said, your argument doesn't hold water, especially as Apple is swtching over to Metal in El Capitan.

What you and the rest of the "Macs are inferior" crowd don't understand is that NONE OF YOUR ARGUMENTS ARE VALID.

Those of us using the OSX client are using the fully supported client given to us by the developer of the game. This is not us asking for support on an unsupported Wine configuration, this is the official product., sold oand advertised on the SE Store. Most of us have machines that are better than the system requirements. SE promised a fully functioning client for OSX, and they have not delivered. It is up to them to fix it, or refund us. The buck stops with them, this is their product, and it's not working properly. End of story.

[MythToken]

If I was going just for the hardware, I would agree with overpaying, however, I wanted OSX. That being said, your argument doesn't hold water, especially as Apple is swtching over to Metal in El Capitan.

Ok.

The real point being though, that you didn't expect the Mac version of the game to run on Windows or visa versa.

SE has made that very clear.

So our other arguments aside, the OP is in the wrong.

[Delily]

Ok.

The real point being though, that you didn't expect the Mac version of the game to run on Windows or visa versa.

SE has made that very clear.

So our other arguments aside, the OP is in the wrong.

Well, I'm not sure I parse that first statement correctly, but yes I agree the OP is in the wrong. SE made it very clear you had to buy a license for OSX, it's been known for months. It's the same pattern as FFXI and ARR - you need to buy a license per platform. The prices is also comparable, as it's both ARR and Heavensward, and the PC download is also $60. However, since they give you a free month's time for each new license, the actual cost is $45.

[T2teddy]

I played WoW for 9 years. God help you if you were a brand new player because you had to pay for every single one of these before you could play an expac....

Original base game
Burning Crusade
Wrath of the Lich King

With their third xpac the finally got smart and you just needed the vanilla game installed and they combined all the xpacs into one BIG game to install lol.

PS: Warlords is losing them subs because of no flying. But I read they are fixing that.

[Mhikail]

Anyone else laugh really hard to the fact he games actively on a Mac?
I mean what games can you even play on Mac besides WoW?
MineSweeper? Lmfao.

[dayspring83]

A Mac user complaining about getting gauged.

Bahahahahahahaha

[Kyros]

The Apple Tax is about price point and not about performance.

And? You are the one that brought Hardware being on equal grounds as an argument. I was stating that it is clearly not on equal grounds, since one is costing nearly double. And since money can be directly translated into performance (Up to a point), any piece of hardware that costs more than its equal is worse by default.

The second is argumentum ad populum, I don't care what the other companies are doing (although both WoW and D3 run just fine on OSX).

Ad populum means that because a mass believes it, it must be true. It has absolutely nothing to do with what I said, which is that MAC has problems attracting game companies and keeping their support, which is pretty much an undeniable fact. My argument is that because of this issues, anyone who has gaming in mind will play on the platform with games. This is the same thing with consoles, they only go as far as the developers make/port games to their system.

Again, with the FB/Google+ analogy, anyone who wants to go to Google+ pretty much does it out of spite to FB, love for google, desire to try something new, or they genuinely believe it to be better. But almost no one will go for it because "all their friends are there!". Likewise, no gamer will buy a Mac because "All the games are there!".

What you and the rest of the "Macs are inferior" crowd don't understand is that NONE OF YOUR ARGUMENTS ARE VALID.

It's funny because your own argument is the one invalid here. SE hasn't dropped or stopped MAC support, and I don't see why you are complaining about this case in particular. The OP wanted to double dip Windows/Mac clients, and anyone who has actually bought this game should remember there being a warning sign that it will only work for the platform you buy.

Heck, that he first chose windows over his mac out of convenience speaks volumes of the issue.