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

[Sakei]

It may have been clearer but I'm sure you can see that it would come across as very abrasive, Avenger. They had faith that Transgaming could deliver at least acceptable performance at a much lower cost to them. The game has been run in a wrapper before with acceptable performance. You can still find the old wrappers online, but they don't work with the current clients.

[Avenger]

It may have been clearer but I'm sure you can see that it would come across as very abrasive, Avenger. They had faith that Transgaming could deliver at least acceptable performance at a much lower cost to them. The game has been run in a wrapper before with acceptable performance. You can still find the old wrappers online, but they don't work with the current clients.

Personally I find ambiguity and beating around the bush to be vastly more infuriating than clear and unambiguous statements of why someone did something. It should be possible to gracefully explain the truth in clear and unambiguous terms.

Your hypothesis may be correct - I see nothing wrong with stating it clearly in plain language.

Actually the clearest part seems to be here:

With regards to our decision to use middleware rather than having native OpenGL, the biggest reason behind this choice was development cost. As I mentioned earlier, very few games are sold for Mac systems, and the prevailing opinion is that the majority of Mac users aren’t interested in games. This results in an extremely high risk for development.

(emphasis mine)

Unfortunately the subsequent paragraphs confuse the issue by talking about performance - which is certainly a reason NOT to use middleware.