Quote Originally Posted by MsQi View Post
The biggest problem with apple is it's run like a cult instead of a tech company. Instead of trying to please any of their customers, they tell their followers what they will enjoy.
Effective marketing. Lots of companies do the exact same thing, with varying degrees of success. That's why choosey moms choose JIF. And none of that really has nothing to do with SE support of the Mac client, which is the argument that I think most Mac users are trying to make. SE is solely to blame for how well their software supports platforms it's released on. Will a natively developed version of FFXIV perform better on Mac OS than a natively developed version on Windows? Probably not, and yeah Apple is at least partially to blame for that. But I don't think most Mac users would be upset if it performed worse than Windows/PS4, as long as it just performed better than how it currently performs in a WINE wrapper.

To the OP: I play on the Mac Client with an eGPU, and while it doesn't run as nice as it does on Windows, I get enough performance that I'm satisfied with it. I think the only way we'll see improvements is if the 3rd party WINE provider somehow better supports Metal in Mac OS. Maybe if SE decides to rebuild FFXIV in the future, they'll select a platform that has more tools available for making cross platform games where they don't have to rely on a WINE wrapper. Fingers crossed.