Is Diablo 4 ever going to be available on Mac? I recently had to trade out my pc for a Mac for work related reasons and I found out D4 is not available on Mac… 
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doubtful really D= thats the burden with having a mac ^^
HotS was the last game to come to macOS. Blizzard had an internal working version of Overwatch that ran on Metal, but it was never greenlighted by management. Part of the problem is that Apple abandons its operating systems on a yearly basis, causing Blizzard to have to keep pace. That in turn also alienates a lot of players because their machines that worked previously for a game suddenly no longer work because Apple doesn’t backport things like bugfixes even for drivers. For instance, Intel IGP users have long dealt with diminished capability in World of Warcraft due to a longstanding and never fixed issue with the drivers. Once a piece of hardware is no longer sold on shelves Apple essentially does not update its drivers any further. Add to that the fact that Apple and nVidia had a major falling out that cost a lot of players the ability to play on Macs and Mac Pros using nVidia hardware and it just gets worse and worse.
The problem isn’t market share. Apple continues to gain market share vs. the Windows segment. The problem is that working within Apple’s obscenely walled garden and narcissistic and seemingly arbitrary rules and whims just isn’t something Blizzard wants to do anymore. Only games that were already on Metal are continuing to receive updates of any kind, most notably World of Warcraft. Even SC2 and Heroes of the Storm are almost unplayable on modern macOS and do not have native ARM64 clients AFAIK. Hell, even the Battle.net app itself is still Intel only and runs via Rosetta. It hasn’t even been updated to a fat binary for both Intel and ARM64, and is almost entirely broken in macOS now.
POE and POE 2 are on Mac as well… I guess that will be my new home.
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Serious question, like if you are on mac, you obviously don’t care much about gaming and if you do, you can obviously afford a console.
Why not just buy a console? I’m legit curious.
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That’s what I did. I bought a console to play D4. The downside is that it requires a monthly subscription to play online on PlayStation and Xbox.
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I have both gamer PC and Mac but if i could, i’d play on Mac since i prefer macOS much more than Windows.
I guess OP has the same feeling ^^
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I’ve always been a PC gamer, I don’t like controllers and I will never want to play without a mouse and keyboard. People that grew up playing a lot of Consoles I guess don’t understand, but gaming is just better on a computer rather than console. Consoles are limited in comparison.
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You have a hardware platform that “Just Works!”.
Apple doesn’t care if it works well for you or your needs, but hey, they’re more than happy to help you spend your money at one of their friendly tech bars where you can pay them hundreds to do something simple for you while they fight tooth and nail to keep you from doing yourself, or if you’re REALLY lucky, they’ll lie about your device being beyond repair, and upsell you another device that “Just Works!”.
I get being forced to use an Apple device because of work. I’ve got an iPhone and an iPad sitting here because it’s what my company gives us to use, but all my personal products are Android or PC. Why not just… ya know… buy or build a PC for your own use?
Playing D4 on Mac M1Max, using Apple game porting toolkit and Crossover.
Yeah never happening
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I received a survey awhile back asking about D4 on gamepass. Part of the survey was asking about D:I on console. They’re more willing to develop a console port of D:I than to do a small amount of work to take their D:I iOS client to macOS where people generally spend more than on pc. It tells me they have some kind of boycott against mac if they don’t want even more easy profit with D:I.
So yea PoE2 is probably best bet to count on.
Try Geforce Now. I play D4 with max settings on my very old Chromebook, MacBook Air M1 and too weak Gaming Notebook. I also like Boosteroid Game Streaming, but the service is too stable for me atm.
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Right, windows machine is great no doubt about it. But a mac…lol
Hopefully this thread can keep popping up so they realize that people are trying to find ways so they can play D4 on their MacOS.
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The reason why no one likes porting games to MacOs is that programming for this is expensive and crappy
Like reeeeeally crappy. Its not worth for companies. No matter if its indie oder big company.
Mac is an interesting beast of its own… They require licensing, but when you do a new build you have to start back a the beginning and then go out and relicense even though you got the license to re build the game.
LOL.
Bro, Mac aint gonna have this game ever. They BLOCK viruses.
Be thankful you CANNOT get this game…can I have my money back btw???
Mac hardware and MacOs sucks in gaming … No wonder Blizz devs stay away from this crap ,