No Mac Support!?!? (Super Sad)

Codex-2617 · November 10, 2018, 3:15pm

I cannot believe in 2018 there is no mac support for overwatch, I really can‘t believe it, and with black ops 4 its now the same.

I wanted to buy both games but now I just do nothing. I am extremely sad about this. I will not install windows via bootcamp on my mac.

Just make native support for mac for every game from the beginning please.

Kaedi-11739 · November 10, 2018, 6:27pm

The problem is that with each platform they introduce, it takes more time to develop and test each patch. Lead Engineer Bill Warnecke answers a similar question about the Linux platform:

Linux port for overwatch

Hey there! While many of us on the development team love Linux we are not currently looking at adding native support.

Dealing with the code changes required to support another platform is one challenge. Outside of the Overwatch code itself we would have to work with internal and external teams to update libraries we depend on. Tools like the [Battle.net ](http://Battle.net) desktop client would also require changes.

On top of all of the above we’d have to split our QA time to make sure we put the same level of quality and polish into the Linux version as we do for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox one… and this has to happen for every patch we put out.

We learned with death match to never say never, but for right now native Linux support isn’t a focus for the team.

Cheers!

Kristal-11786 · November 10, 2018, 6:31pm

Overwatch seems to use C, C++ or C# and those languages have Mac and Linux support so can’t they just Ctrl+C Ctrl+V the code into the Mac and Linux ports?

Pharohbender-1110 · November 11, 2018, 10:09am

(https:// support. apple. com/ en-au/ HT201468)
just install windows mac allows you to do it, boot camp