Quote Originally Posted by Johners View Post
I'd like to actually see an M1 Native version at some stage simply because there's no guarantee on how long the Rosetta 2 compatibility layer will last for. When Apple moved from PowerPC to x86 back in the day, the compatibility layer was only supported in the Mac OS X releases of the time for a few years and I don't expect it to be any different this time around. By the time Endwalker is complete and we're moving onto 7.0, I can see there being no more x86 compatibility or new x86 Macs on the market. Sooner or later, preferably sooner, SE will have to provide an ARM native macOS client or at least take the time to move onto a compatibility wrapper that's much more performant.
It will be supported for a long time... PowerPC wasn't nearly as popular as x86 is.... and it is still currently in use today and for the forseeable future.

Thats not to say it we wouldn't benefit from native M1 support but x86 compatibility will be around for a long time and I'm pretty sure because of this Square will be happy to let the game sit as is given most people don't play it on macs. I also have an M1 Air.