Quote Originally Posted by ArkhamNative View Post
Quite a lot of people were vocal on the SWTOR site about why that MMO should be on Mac. During all that I looked to a Mac games blog's forums. The site's members had adopted a policy of not promoting/pleading for Mac versions on forums. They said that it basically did nothing to change developer's minds. Worse, it usually devolved into senseless platform wars and statistics.

I can see their point, sort of. Some developers decide to do Mac-native versions, some don't. Recently we've seen Borderlands 2, Diablo 3, Walking Dead, BioShock Infinite, Game of Thrones, Tomb Raider (2013), and dozens more launch or port to Mac without any prompting from Mac faithful. Even indie developers are porting to Mac-native and making money. And obviously The Elder Scrolls Online MMO is launching Mac OS-native in a few months. (How better to entice whole cross-platform WoW guilds to switch?) Mac gamers have plenty to play, and an increasing number of games each year. Boot Camp and WINE is a niche "power user" hobby, like people who assemble their own PCs. The majority don't and never will.

So as for FFXIV for Mac... In a sense SE has already made their decision by not offering Mac at launch, and again by not launching with a Mac version on Steam. If Mac support is really important, then people might do best to lend their support the developers who do support the Mac.
This guy gets it.

That last post above this one... saddens me.