Thread: Macos Monterey 12.3 - Python removed, FFIXV will not run

I had a 2020 13in M1 MacBook Pro and it ran XIV better than my 2018 15' Intel MBP AND keep in mind, it was running it through Rosetta. I have a 2021 16 inch M1-Pro MBP now and it runs incredibly. Never had any issues until 12.3. Im hoping they dont drop Mac support

It's an absolute disgrace the way a multibillion company such as Square Enix mishandles their products over and over again on various platforms.

This is not specific to Final Fantasy XIV on Mac, but it's of course it's even worse here as there are just lies and empty promises being published over and over, I for one deeply regret the amount of money I pored into the Mac "port" of this game considering it's the laziest "port" I've ever seen.
I certainly hope the reason they been neglecting the mac version for so long is because they actually do a proper build this time around, but at the same page it's of course extremely unlikely.

Instead the community effort XiVOnMac surfaced and within a few months surpassed the official port both in terms of functionality and performance (of course the latter is most likely due to using more recent versions of dependent libraries, but my point is it shouldn't even have to be a community effort to start with to support a currently active title! it's nothing but completely inexcusable business behaviour on Square Enix behalf)

Meanwhile you have companies such as Blizzards, who not only kept a mac version up to date but also provided native builds for all supported mac architectures at all times, that implemented native backends for the most current graphic api used at all times- and doesn't charge a dime extra for it.

I have a 2020 Intel iMac, how does FFXIV run on Bootcamp? I know some games are a problem due to scaling issues on the 5k monitor.

Was wondering why FFXIV would not run earlier this week. After rebooting my iMac twice hoping that this would fix the issue I figured it might be something more and came and low and behold looks like it is impacting many in the Mac community that are running the latest version of the Mac OS.

I wish Square Enix would just write a true Mac version instead of these wrappers. It has caused problems in the past and here we are again. It would be nice and appropriate, I feel, if Square Enix would suspend billing the monthly fee for those with the Mac license until this is fixed since we can't even play the game now.

Originally Posted by Kgabu

I have discovered a workaround at xivmac.com and everything is working again. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future patch?

Thanks a lot ! I am saved !

Originally Posted by OldGeekGamer

I have a 2020 Intel iMac, how does FFXIV run on Bootcamp? I know some games are a problem due to scaling issues on the 5k monitor.

A bit iffy in terms of drivers. Lots of DX11 errors are possible. Sometimes solvable updating to the lastest AMD drivers, sometimes not.

It's better running it on OS X if you can.

XIVonMac is the best solution for now, despite it being against TOS (like GShade is), it does seem to work well.

I just hope they fix this eventually.