FFXIV for Mac

[seuki]

Are there any plans for bringing this game to Mac OS X?

I'm using Bootcamp with my Retina MBP at the moment (runs great with standard settings) and know there are other ways to run it such as with Wine or Parallels but would much rather prefer something supported.

[Emulord]

I'm glad to see that now a MBP, for the 3K$ it's worth, is able to run such a heavy game on decent settings. It used to annoy me not to be able to properly play GTA IV on my older one. Well, why not a portage, when they eventually publish the game on PC/PS3.

[seuki]

Yup, fan may be a bit loud but it keeps the CPU under 90 degrees. My settings when testing were 1600x900, standard everything, 60 fps, shadow on, dust effects on, extended drawing on, physics on. Those settings let it run really smooth but turning off the extra stuff would make it even smoother.

This laptop actually runs FFXIV better than my desktop.

[Emulord]

Yup, fan may be a bit loud but it keeps the CPU under 90 degrees. My settings when testing were 1600x900, standard everything, 60 fps, shadow on, dust effects on, extended drawing on, physics on. Those settings let it run really smooth but turning off the extra stuff would make it even smoother.

This laptop actually runs FFXIV better than my desktop.

I'm glad to read it!

[Griss]

there have been no mentions of a mac port.

[Dhalmel]

I can see it being ported to OS X due to having such limited different hardware variations Apple has for their products so they have less things to test for compatibility.

The issue would be porting everything to OpenGL, they've had a hard time with directx, which is surely to change with the new engine but going to something completely different might just cause more problems. I'm not sure how well they would handle that API.


Another issue would be driver compatibility, we all know both nvidia & amd are lacking when it comes to support on OS X for their drivers.

[JeanFrancois]

I hope they consider it. I know my school, like most other universities and colleges, give big student discounts on macs. That's tens and hundreds of thousands of young potential players who mostly use mac these days. Its probably better they don't though, or else we would play when we should be studying. -_-

[Renen]

People shouldn't use Mac for gaming.
Companies know that there ARE potential clients on mac, but not nearly enough to justify making a port.
For that reason there are nearly no Mac games.

[Dhalmel]

People shouldn't use Mac for gaming.
Companies know that there ARE potential clients on mac, but not nearly enough to justify making a port.
For that reason there are nearly no Mac games.

It can also be in reverse too, if there were more games on OSX more people would buy macs.
Same applies to Linux,which may change with what Valve & Steam are trying to do.

[nasomi]

What's the point of a retina display if you're running the game at 1600x900?