Native Mac Client

[AshleyDragon]

Now that Switch 2 has been added and FFXIV has been ported to support ARM architectures please consider a native client for macOS, it would be great if it supported game mode as well and it increase the performance notably, currently the official client for Mac suffers a lot on the new alliance raid.

[Bubert]

The fact that we do not have a native Mac client is laughable… And they dare charge us money for it when the client can’t even run properly in the first place.

I still hope that in the future they’ll fix this… Many game companies don’t have any issues optimising their games for Mac.
Heck even Wow runs on it smoothly like butter on breadies.

[PaulusHamsteru]

The fact that we do not have a native Mac client is laughable… And they dare charge us money for it when the client can’t even run properly in the first place.

I still hope that in the future they’ll fix this… Many game companies don’t have any issues optimising their games for Mac.
Heck even Wow runs on it smoothly like butter on breadies.

It just goes to show how incompetent Squeenix’s devs really are.

[AshleyDragon]

The fact that we do not have a native Mac client is laughable… And they dare charge us money for it when the client can’t even run properly in the first place.

I still hope that in the future they’ll fix this… Many game companies don’t have any issues optimising their games for Mac.
Heck even Wow runs on it smoothly like butter on breadies.

Indeed, this is one of the few games and mmos that support Mac, but don't support it correctly for some reason

[AshleyDragon]

Where did you get that from? Did they make a press release or give any interviews confirming it? There's a higher chance of the game running on a translation layer than it being a native ARM version. It'd explain why the game is reportedly targeting 30FPS instead of 60.

Windows doesn't even have DX12/Vulkan versions, and you're expecting an ARM one? Gotta temper those expectations.

There's a really low chance that it is running under a compatibility layer on Switch as Nintendo don't allow it, the 30 FPS is obvious to keep battery life, but this thread isn't about Switch but rather a native Mac version for paying customers, please stay on topic or just create another thread for the Switch version.

[AshleyDragon]

So we're really just speculating, huh... not interested then. Without confirmed sources, this is a pointless conversation.

Asking for a native client for macOS is not a pointless conversation?

[Uzephi]

There's a really low chance that it is running under a compatibility layer on Switch as Nintendo don't allow it, the 30 FPS is obvious to keep battery life, but this thread isn't about Switch but rather a native Mac version for paying customers, please stay on topic or just create another thread for the Switch version.

Bringing up the fallocy in the original post is definitely on topic. You claim Nintendo doesn't allow compatibility layers yet Nintendo themselves use said layers for their old games. Not just the emulator built in for the retro games, but even OG switch games played on S2 are in a type of compatibility layer to play properly with a completely different GPU architecture. 30 fps is abysmal, that is definitely due to some underlying compatibility layer and not for battery life. The battery life argument falls flat when it still gets 30 fps when docked. Games that always drop performance in lieu of battery regains the performance when docked.