Bring Overwatch to Mac!

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The Argument for Overwatch 2 on macOS

  • Widens the audience
  • Overwatch on Mac would have little to no competition since there are no titles in the same genre to compete against
  • The lack of competitive multiplayer games available on Mac suggests that Overwatch would satisfy a demand as it would fill a gap in the market
  • More players means more microtransactions purchased
  • Apple users likely to have disposable income which suggests profitability
  • Even the lowest end Apple Silicon models would be capable of running OW2 with excellent performance
  • Mac computers have increasingly gamer-centric feature sets with newer silicon
  • Metal API is a robust modern framework for the port
  • Much of the porting work could be automated via GPTK
  • Battle.net launcher is already available on macOS with a pre-existing Mac audience for Blizzard games such as World of Warcraft
  • Cloud gaming isn’t a solution to everyone as not everyone has a reliable connection
  • Future mergers - Microsoft would be able to point towards Overwatch’s availability on Mac as an evidence of their commitment to bringing games to more platforms

It would be wonderful to be able to play Overwatch natively on Mac computers!

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Not sure if the effort to develop, release and maintain for macs is worth it for all 10 people who game on macs

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Dead scam game for a dead scam OS?

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Bring overwatch to porcelain throne as well so i can play with my as* and finally be equal with my teammates

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Nah it should go to cheese

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With how Microsoft is going and its current direction and predicted future.

I dont see this being a bad idea.

Right now, Windows is running most of the market and I can say that myself, going from 95, to 98, to ME, to 2000, to NT, to XP, Windows Server 2003, Server 2008, to Windows 7, 8 and then into 10 and 11.

After Windows XP. Windows has de-evolved into what an Operating system should be.

I’ve used Solaris, Linux on Ubuntu, Mint, Kali, Free BSD, RedHat, and Novell Client. And can say even on MAC. When i used it back in 1997 and 1998. There were some good points about MAC and alot of bad things.

But regardless. We can all remember when games like SIM EARTH ran on a MAC and that was like a good reason to have a MAC. Oh, and we can’t forget Number munchers and Oregon Trail from MECC. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Technically true, but i doubt the development effort is worth the 12 extra players

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OP being 10 of them I imagine.

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Let me WASD strafe on a magic keyboard dang it :triumph:

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Yup, and the other 2 are using bootcamp with a windows partition anyway and its just a minor convenience

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  • The audience on Mac is not as big as you might think. Most people that own personal Macs who want to game, already have a gaming computer or console (Speaking as as avid Mac user)
  • There is a reason no other competition is no on Mac (See above) also from experience as a Mac WoW player.
  • While the internal hardware does not inhibit, and may exceed the requirements, you are fighting a stringent MacOS and the subsequent costs to be able to publish on the platform, that would have limited returns.
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I’d love being able to play from my MBP so that I don’t have to start another computer to play, it’d be super convenient for me to just have that one computer

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This game already feels like its made on a shoestring budget by a small team. They unfortunately will never devote the resources to make a macOS version at this point, and if they hadn’t already supported it for WoW and Hearthstone for years beforehand I’m certain they would have dropped it when the M1 architecture replaced Intel.

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I agree bigger playerbase good.

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I wonder if people have anything better to do sometimes.

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That’s being generous.