Mac Client

[Viirin]

While I'm not shocked persay by the choice to force existing players to buy the mac client if they want to play in OSX, I am surprised by it... Especially as I don't think they'll find many takers. Anyone who is already playing and has a mac among their computers has surely gotten themselves set up to play by now (whether through bootcamp or a virtual pc). According to sort of the philosophy Yoshida presented in the past, I would have thought creating the mac client was all about attracting new subscribers, namely mac users that don't have a Windows computer, and that don't want to have to install Windows on their computer in order to play a game. I guess they'll still do that, but I just don't see the point in not letting existing players have access to the mac client via their windows license.

But what if they use the PS3 client for Mac?

Why would the PS3 client work on the mac? PS, mac, and Windows are all totally different platforms, but at least mac and windows run on the same hardware architecture...

You still have to buy it. Let's use FFVII for example. Wasn't the first PC version a direct port of the PS1 version. Did you have to buy it or did SE give it to you for free on PC.

It's kind of a different animal because that's a game that you buy once and play forever, not something you have a subscription to. No one would suggest that mac users should get the game for free, but there are very few people out there so desperate for a mac version to complement their Windows version that they are going to buy the game twice. The mac client should be about getting new subscribers, and since they already made it for that reason, it seems silly to not just let people who already bought the game use that client as well.