SE,we Mac users do not deserve this third class treatment!

[matteoxyz]

Does your mac meet the minimum system requirements for the game? If it does not, blame your hardware, not the game.

[LaylaTsarra]

I was going to buy a Mac version but after reading the responses in here I'm not inclined to do so now.

[Evangela]

one question, why don't play on Windows? I'm pretty sure all of you can install Windows on your Mac hardware.

[Delily]

one question, why don't play on Windows? I'm pretty sure all of you can install Windows on your Mac hardware.

Yes, and most of us played the game through either Boot Camp or Parallels. However, that's completely irrelevant; Square markets the game as being available on OSX, they sell a client through their store. The experience is that of a beta, numerous graphics glitches and extreme performance degradation. This is a matter of company providing proper support for a product that was just released.

[Brianmj]

one question, why don't play on Windows? I'm pretty sure all of you can install Windows on your Mac hardware.

I did play on Windows through bootcamp. My $60 was so I could stay in OS X and not interrupt my work by booting into another OS. There are things I prefer to do in OS X, and when Yoshida announced a Mac client was coming, I was ecstatic. My $60 was so I could play the game in OS X.

[logicallysynced]

OS
OS X Yosemite 10.10.2

Hardware
21.5-inch iMac (Mid 2014) with Intel Iris Pro Graphics or higher
MacBook Pro 15 inch with Retina display or higher

Available space on hard disk/SSD
30GB

Internet
Persistent broadband internet connection required

MacBook Pro 15 inch with Retina display FULLY spec'd out (best cpu, max ram, best graphics, ssd).. Runs game on lowest resolution and settings = 7-9fps

Imac 5K Retina, FULLY spec'd out.. Runs game on lowest resolution and settings = 15-18fps


Yeaahhhh.. disappointed.

[MugenMugetsu]

I'm not a Mac owner, nor am I fan of Apple's price gouging, however I don't understand why so many people are giving mac users such a hard time when the issues lie in the fact that the 3rd party company that was outsourced to develop/port the game to run on Macs did a crappy job. This is something that needs to be addressed ASAP. Please stop claiming PC Master Race, or run the game in bootcamp. These paying customer's simply want the product they were promised. A fully functional version of FFXIV for Mac OSX.

[Crayge]

I'm not a Mac owner, nor am I fan of Apple's price gouging, however I don't understand why so many people are giving mac users such a hard time when the issues lie in the fact that the 3rd party company that was outsourced to develop/port the game to run on Macs did a crappy job. This is something that needs to be addressed ASAP. Please stop claiming PC Master Race, or run the game in bootcamp. These paying customer's simply want the product they were promised. A fully functional version of FFXIV for Mac OSX.

Thankful for the people that understand what is the real issue of this situation. We all have different - valid - reasons to play on the platforms we prefer, but no one should be okay with how SE has handled this product.

[Souljacker]

I'm not a Mac owner....

Neither am I, but I am a paying customer and I'm also shocked at the lack of respect some have for other paying customers. What does anyone care which platform the other plays on? The only relevant fact is that SE said they would do something and it didn't end up being as functional as it should have been for the money people paid. That's a big customer service problem and I just don't understand this new generation of customer that is more than happy to let companies get away with selling bad product over and over again, and then comes to the forums to bash other customers for expecting that their money bought them something functional.

This is something that should be addressed regardless of anyone's personal feelings about gaming on macs.

[Imoye]

Neither am I, but I am a paying customer and I'm also shocked at the lack of respect some have for other paying customers. What does anyone care which platform the other plays on? The only relevant fact is that SE said they would do something and it didn't end up being as functional as it should have been for the money people paid.

This is something that should be addressed regardless of anyone's personal feelings about gaming on macs.

It's because people buy Macs and then expect to game on them, yeah that's never going to happen. I do agree though that a product should work , and I'm sure SE will do something about it.

But for future reference: don't buy a Mac if you game at all, going to save you a lot of hassle. Nothing a Mac can do that a PC can't do. There's no valid reason for buying a Mac other than personal preference (how that even came to be is beyond me, but yeah).