The Mac OS X Client's absymal performance is a joke.

[Nehmi]

I'm in the same boat as everyone else here. I held out for the Mac client, payed my $60, and it's basically unplayable on the highest spec MacBook you can buy right now. (2015 15" Retina MacBook w/ Radeon M370X).

Even running at 720P is painful. It's almost the same performance I can get playing ARR under Parallels...

I played Guild Wars 2 on a MacBook w/ 650M graphics, and even that was worlds better than this.

I don't even know what to say. I'm hugely disappointed. I can't play on my PS4 because of the epic mouse/keyboard lag, and I can't play on my Mac because the performance is totally screwed up.

I have good experiences with playing it in Windows 8.1 in Bootcamp. On your machine that should perform very well. Maybe that's a temporary solution if you have a PC version? Personally I hoped to finally wipe Windows from my Mac, but alas. Guess I'll keep it for a while longer, combined with some play sessions on PS4. Trying to get used to the controller.

[JDHiro]

I have good experiences with playing it in Windows 8.1 in Bootcamp. On your machine that should perform very well. Maybe that's a temporary solution if you have a PC version? Personally I hoped to finally wipe Windows from my Mac, but alas. Guess I'll keep it for a while longer, combined with some play sessions on PS4. Trying to get used to the controller.

I do all my work in OS X, and I don't really want to shut everything else down to play 1 game all the time. I also didn't pay for the expansion on Windows.

Not a bad workaround for most but - SE promised a Mac client, I REALLY want to have a usable Mac client.

[cybereal]

I have good experiences with playing it in Windows 8.1 in Bootcamp. On your machine that should perform very well. Maybe that's a temporary solution if you have a PC version? Personally I hoped to finally wipe Windows from my Mac, but alas. Guess I'll keep it for a while longer, combined with some play sessions on PS4. Trying to get used to the controller.

FWIW, you can plug a keyboard and mouse in the PS4 version and switch to mouse mode and play that way just fine.

[JDHiro]

FWIW, you can plug a keyboard and mouse in the PS4 version and switch to mouse mode and play that way just fine.

Except for the fact that keyboards have inexplicable keyboard lag on PS4 FFXIV. It's infuriating.