Mac Version

[Kaisha]

So what you you were expecting. To give the game for free or something?

Majority of subscription MMOs in the past that supported a Mac version worked off the idea that you subscription pays for access, and the client is just free.

With ARR, SE wants you have an individual serial key registered per game/expansion PER platform you want to play it on, which is against the trend in the PC+Mac MMO territory. All it's doing for me is deterring from ever wanting to try out the Mac version at any rate since I don't want to have to double-dip every expansion when I can just bootcamp my PC copy instead.

For all we know the Mac 'port' may just be a cider wrapped copy of the PC game.

[Millerna]

For all we know the Mac 'port' may just be a cider wrapped copy of the PC game.

That's exactly what it is (been confirmed by Square.)

Quite frankly, if you're already playing now using bootcamp, there's really no reason to get the Mac client, unless you're desperate to not use Windows at all. If you're not playing yet, you'd have to buy the bundle either way, whether it's the Mac or Windows version.

[Kirito]

That's exactly what it is (been confirmed by Square.)

Quite frankly, if you're already playing now using bootcamp, there's really no reason to get the Mac client, unless you're desperate to not use Windows at all. If you're not playing yet, you'd have to buy the bundle either way, whether it's the Mac or Windows version.

Problem is I am not sure if my game will run better on bootcamp or the wine wrapped version :-(

[Millerna]

Problem is I am not sure if my game will run better on bootcamp or the wine wrapped version :-(

It'll run better using bootcamp since it'll run native, and not through a wrapper. Granted, wine has seen quite a bit of optimisations, and cider games are nowhere near as bad as they used to be, but the wrapper still uses up additional resources.

[ArkhamNative]

For all we know the Mac 'port' may just be a cider wrapped copy of the PC game.

That's exactly what it is (been confirmed by Square.)

Is it possible SE is using a native engine (OpenGL)? or have they confirmed it's using Cider's DirectX (9 and 11) API support?