Issue refunds for the MacOS client.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Why not install Windows 10 on Boot-Camp? FFXIV was developed with DirectX in mind. MacOS has Metal now, which is Apple's graphics API. If anything, Square-Enix should update the game's API to be compatible with Metal.

[KisaiTenshi]

Why not install Windows 10 on Boot-Camp? FFXIV was developed with DirectX in mind. MacOS has Metal now, which is Apple's graphics API. If anything, Square-Enix should update the game's API to be compatible with Metal.

It's not a port, it's a Cedega wrapper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedega_(software)

And to that end, it's identical to the PC version.

[misterbones]

That is correct. The files are nearly identical to that of a windows install with very minor modifications for.. I think some form of safari integration, input of special chars and also the opening cutscenes are tampered with for some reason.
I am actually going to copy these files over to windows to see if they run I am curious.

[misterbones]

I realize this is an option but when the mac port is borderline unusable like this it is not okay to sell it for that platform.
I would expect that if I paid $60 to have the game available on my apple hardware, that it would at least run okay. The same would be expected for people who bought it for ps3, ps4 etc..

There are wrappers that do something like converting dx11 to vulkan and it's really fast. And then there are wrappers that convert vulkan to metal which, is also pretty fast. There are many many options for them here..

But dude come on. They used free software like wine to make this shoddy port and they SELL it to you at full price for each expansion? When it barely even runs and frequently crashes systems??? Absolutely ridiculous. I use forum search here to see other peoples accounts of poor performance and kernel panics and it's just the same canned response from the support here over and over again.