Is there really no Mac Version for Diablo 2 Resurrected?
Sadly it is not.
I am not an IT guy but my guess is that since they are using the old game underneath it is still 32bit. They should have remade it? I don’t know. But I guess they didn’t
Sad. Was looking forward. But since no Mac version a lost customer.
I liked D2 more than D3. But I am not going to give up a good computer platform only to get a game. They support D3 on Mac, so not sure why they could not make D2R work.
They’re staying faithful. You couldn’t originally play D2 on Mac either. lol
Diablo 2 was originally released for PC, then Mac support was added about a month later.
Mac system requirements at release:
G3 or higher processor, 64MB RAM. MacOS 8.1 or higher.
I had Diablo (1) on my original Mac, I had D2 and LoD (I can see the discs from where I’m siting). I played the heck out of D3 and have the CE for the main game and the expansion.
Apparently they can develop it for Switch, but not for a Mac, even the M1 processor macs.
And you can’t even comment on that in the D2 Remasters forums, because you can only comment there if you’ve preordered - which would be silly given the game isn’t supported on my platform of choice.
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Its not their fault Mac despises gamers
I think it’s because D2 is a 32-bit program and modern macs dropped 32-bit support. Since D2R is basically an overlay over D2 with a few QoL tweaks it’s likely that it is also 32-bit and thus incompatible.
I’m not sure what kind of work would be required to make it 64-bit, or if that process would ruin or change something about the gameplay, but if the latter isn’t a problem a 64-bit client could benefit everyone imo.
Catalina dropped 32-bit support which made D2 stop working. They’re investigating but it looks like it’s been over a year since this post
They will likely be supporting 64-bit in the future: Post By Matthew Cederquist
School budget laptops are for gamers?
Pro what? Not pro gamers lol.
pro = engineers. people who do things with computers.
So not pro gamers. Got it.
As a software systems engineer…you’re wrong and MACs suck for day to day corporate use.
If you are a Microsoft drone, sure. Real developers use Linux or the only commercial unix workstation…a Mac
They are good in the dev bubble, but the second they step outside of that they are crying about how nothing plays nice with the rest of the enterprise suite. Web apps have made that less of a problem, but the picture you are painting is hyperbole.
The 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey provides no detail about particular versions of Windows. The desktop operating system share among those identifying as professional developers was:
- Windows: 45.3%
- macOS: 29.2%
- Linux: 25.3%
- BSD/Unix: 0.1%
The digital video game distribution platform [Steam] publishes a monthly “Hardware & Software Survey”, with the statistics below:
Month [Microsoft Windows][Mac OS] [Linux] Other
| December 2020 | 96.41% | 2.82% | 0.78% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2020 | 96.89% | 2.47% | 0.67% | |
| January 2019 | 95.92% | 3.27% | 0.82% | |
| January 2018 | 98.38% | 1.31% | 0.25% | |
| January 2017 | 95.79% | 3.31% | 0.80% | |
| January 2016 | 95.39% | 3.55% | 0.95% | |
| January 2015 | 95.48% | 3.32% | 1.09% | |
| January 2014 | 94.93% | 3.47% | 0.86% | 0.74% |
I really have no horse in this race, but it does appear that devs do use windows more, and gamers use windows almost exclusively. So it makes sense that they wouldn’t think it worth their time and effort at this point to make sure it’s mac compatible.
The most up to date post I’ve seen is this pinned thread over in the Classic Games Tech Support forum. It’s from this past January and it doesn’t provide any updates on if or when.
But like a few have mentioned above, since the original game is going to the foundation of Resurrected, it appears there won’t be a Mac version. However, that’s only because it was Mac that killed off 32bit support.
Mac sucks. It’s only really useful if you want to make apps on Apple’s app store where you have to own a mac, or if you want to use decent video editing software like Final Cut Pro (Which similars do exist on windows). Windows is better than Mac in every other way. As for Linux, you could run a VM for Windows in it if need be, or the reverse if you want. But personally I wouldn’t be using it since I’m more familiar with Windows, and yes I’ve used both before. I’m a software engineer myself.