Mac client?

[reality_check]

If FFXIV ran on mac I'd totally ditch my pc for a new imac.

[Xayoc]

Statement: Run this game on BootCamp on a MacBook Pro, would love for FFXIV to come out on OSX, due to Macs being Intel, wouldn't take much...

[Shakarlyn]

Statement: Run this game on BootCamp on a MacBook Pro, would love for FFXIV to come out on OSX, due to Macs being Intel, wouldn't take much...

Not quite. It being Intel only means the architecture is the same. Libaries and hardware interfacing is drastically different from Windows. You can't write a wrapper around the existing files and call it done.

[Kyoskai]

Macs are pooper dooks. D:
Get Windows before the whole thing comes crashing down.

[Allyrion]

Bootcamp is great and all, but partitioning your HD just to play sucks.

I doubt they'll invest in making a Mac client, and I don't blame them honestly. Mac gamers (particularly MMO players) are a minority of a minority.

[Lithera]

They're using a Mac friendly engine (Havok) but I doubt the extra development costs (extra programmers, debuggers, QA staff) would be recouped especially when you consider patches and expansions. There would have to be a significant number of Mac subscribers (no current PC players changing to Mac don't count as that is 0 net profit other than the initial purchase of the Mac version) to support it otherwise it would be being paid for by PC and Console subscriptions and generating no profit of its own. I have a feeling if you isolated WoW's Mac version (Mac only subs compared to initial and continued Mac dev costs for patches and expansions) it would be lucky to be breaking even.

[Arriko]

I have played XIV on a Mac since the beginning days of Eorzea. I also would love to see it released specifically for Mac's. It sucks to have to set up bootcamp but honestly its worth it to be able to play ARR. (And if anyone has ever tried running it on Wine, you know the disaster that is. Not even worth the time) Having a PC for me is just a waste of time. While I have ARR for PS3, it hardly runs, if at all most days. But I need mac for my job. So with that said, fingers crossed that someday, sometime down the road......it will be more of a reality. But for now, I am very pleased with bootcamp and how ARR runs on my iMac. Its beautiful full screen and just as good as the "gaming" PC my friends play on.

[Bossycow]

One last bump before I just let this one die... I figure there'd be more support to have FFXIV on a Mac!

[Huginn]

I'm not sure if it has been mentioned yet, and i do not plan to look through this thread to see, but you can play FFXIV on mac via WINE.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...tion&iId=11717
We have several test results and the game works just fine.

[Huginn]

Sorry, i tried to respond to this and the linux threads while i was at work, but i did not bring my authenticator with me.