Hey Blizz.
Look, I like what I’ve played of this game so far, but what I really want is to be able to play around with the world editor like I did back in the day. However, the Mac version of Reforged doesn’t appear to come with the World Editor.
You guys have a long history of showing the Mac side a lot of gaming love, and we’ve historically always been grateful. Is there any chance you’ll send the World Editor our way sometime soon?
Same here. Thank you!
People still use Macs?
Yes, because I much prefer to use stuff like photoshop on it.
Also I wonder where the map editor is too. I was to check stuff out further.
Ah, thing is, that Mac is based off of Unix Architecture!
In order for it to work, it’s not TOO much. But the File Systems, and just some other core level code are different. Even simple things like Drag and Drop Menus are just in need of a few lines of code changed.
However, you can try some Emulator Software! One is called "Wine Emulator, which maybe will work with Mac OS. It basically runs in the background, and is not too Memory costly. It will allow you to run Windows Software as if it were Mac.
Sometimes the upper Menu Bar is not there though.
I am passingly familiar with Wine – because I use Macs, and I also like video games – but Reforged is literally brand spanking new so I am not aware of anyone who has done up a Wine version of the World Editor yet… I’m hoping that Blizzard will just port the editor so it runs native…
It is clearly a shame that world editor isn’t released with the game, they had so much time to make it work for Mac and they didn’t even try to release it
What do you do with Mac?
I’m just curious, what made you get it?
I use a Mac because I want a Unix-like environment for work (web development). It doesn’t make any sense for me to shoehorn in the tools I use on a daily basis (which are often poorly ported and require all kinds of extra work to function correctly) when macOS literally has them built in.
After almost 2 decades of leaving Windows in the dust and never looking back, I’m also pretty well married to the iTunes ecosystem for my music library, so even if I were to completely switch jobs switching OSes would be pretty painful.
Please give us the World Editor for Mac. Its literally one of the main reasons why I bothered getting reforged in the first place!
I was also hoping to use the World Editor but only found the old copy that doesn’t run on modern Macs.
Hope you give us the World Editor for Mac, what a shame…
Is there a way to tag someone that works at blizzard in this post and have them inform us why there is no map editor for mac?
I’d also hoping for a Mac version of the World Editor; I grew up playing around with custom maps and would love to again. Alas I’ve moved into a development career mainly focusing on app and web development so need a Mac for work and hence haven’t had a PC for years.
Bump.
We will not be silenced.
Oh god there is no World Editor for Mac for few years now… Funny you all JUST realized… this is like thread number 2089 about this…
Yeah, i know, I was just hoping there would have been an updated version to work for us on release of reforged. Just waiting for them to get back to us on any info.
Wherever you got that description from is completely inaccurate.
Wine stands for Wine is not an emulator. In that it’s not emulation software in the sense of it creating a virtual machine that you can use to create a virtual Windows environment under which you install Windows software in.
What Wine does is translate the API calls a piece of Windows software uses and re-directs it to POSIX versions of that same API. As OS X is partially POSIX-like you can use Wine to run windows only versions of windows on Mac.
The distinction here is emulation is far easier to set up and understand then Wine. With emulation you effectively create a virtual windows box that you start up when you want to use Windows. With Wine you need to download particular libraries that use to make a custom Wine version of that Windows application. This wine version of the app would need to be re-created each time that application is updated and sometimes even when you update your graphics card drivers.
But Wine does have one advantage over emulation - you don’t have to a copy of Windows sitting around. You also save a lot of disc space as you don’t need to use a virtual windows install.
The logic is simple:
World Editor is part of WC III: Reforge as fore said compatible in Mac OS, it should be accessed by consumers.
Now World Editor is inaccessible in Mac, which is false advertising in all around the world.
If World Editor is considered as not part of WC III: Reforge, it should have additional cost no matter the consumer is using Window or Mac.
Developers, Please update World Editor in Mac while we are asking nicely.
This reply, right here, is literally full of stupid.
My original post specifically asks why an updated World Editor didn’t ship with the mac version of Reforged.
Learn to read.