Long-time Warcraft and Blizzard fan here. I just got done watching the Warcraft Direct, which was awesome to me. I thoroughly enjoyed the announcements, and they even piqued my interest in games like Hearthstone, which I had previously shown little interest in. But the games I wanted to play most out of that Direct are the Warcraft 1 & 2 remasters. I’ve always been a fan of WC3 and love the game since way back when, all the way into Reforged despite its issues. (I’m excited to try the 2.0.) However, much to my dismay, I have come to learn the 1 & 2 remasters are PC only. I am not sure why World of Warcraft and Warcraft 3 are available on macOS, and the remasters are not. I would love insight into that. I know we are a small minority of the fan base (Mac Gamers, that is), but as someone who is both passionate about Blizzard and Warcraft as well as Mac gaming (it seems to be a growing community, fortunately), I wanted to shout out for some love. And I know I know, “just buy a PC,” but I love Apple and I love the ecosystem. There was a time when Blizzard and Apple went hand in hand. I just wanted to share my love and hope for Mac love on the remasters and future Blizzard Games.
I hope to see games and gaming grow on the Apple side, and I know it comes down to making money at the end of the day, but I doubt it is impossible to port the old games to Mac. I wish there was something I could do to help!
- Sincerely, a Blizzard/Mac fan.
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Here, here! Modern Macs are no slouches and WoW runs a dream on native Apple Silicon! Why can’t all other Warcraft games follow suit? It’s not like they haven’t gone through processor transitions before on Apple hardware, from Motorola 68k → PowerPC → Intel
Really disappointing effort.
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You’re brave… All the other mac users are afraid to speak up on here… we just get made fun of.
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It’s a new era. Apple Silicon is a game changer, we just gotta speak up and support it! Thanks for the comment, let’s see if we can make a wave!
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Yes, please, we need Wow on Mac.
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WoW works great on apple silicon. And there is a reforged port that has worked descent (hopefully better with 2.0), it would be great to get Warcraft 1 & 2 remaster ports maybe even Diablo love dare I say??? I mean Apple announced CyberPunk is going to be playable! Warcraft 1 & 2 can’t be harder than CyberPunk to port!
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Seriously, Mac Silicon here and it’s unbelievable that there is no Mac version. Would sure be nice to see!
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+1, it’s a joke there is no mac version for these games. All of them.
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Totally agree. New Macs are crazy good. Does anyone here have a link to a port? Curious how hard it would be to port the game using Apple Game porting tool. WC2 was the game that hooked me.
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Totally sucks. Blizzard used to be great when it came to Mac support, now that is all over it seems.
I bought WC1 back in the mid 90’s and played on my Performa Macintosh, and loved the game. Purchased WC2, I think it was a battle chest version that came with an expansion. Bought WC3 on launch day, and the FT expansion when that launched as well, played them both on a Mac.
Was excited to hear the rumors of a WC1 and WC2 remaster, just hoping for it to be true. It didn’t even cross my mind that it would be PC-only, I saw it on the system requirement section when I went to buy the game, got sad pretty quickly.
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I purchased Warcraft 1 when it came out. Same for Warcraft II, beat the campaign, played it to death on LAN multiplayer. And every single other Blizzard game from there on out, up until suddenly Overwatch was PC only. And I still went and shelled out for WC III reforged (even though it didn’t work!).
Every month of every year that I could give Blizzard money for WoW I’ve been paying up. That’s what? Around a $3,100 dollar game at that point?
All of it on the Mac. It’s not a coincidence to me that that Blizzard and Bungie, both legendary gaming houses that changed the industry and made billions, were doing their best, most innovative work while they were also developing on and for macOS. Both houses, the minute they started thinking strictly according to BA degree business metrics over creativity, seem to have sadly become re-release and sequel houses.
You know who is making waves these days? Larian. You know what they also released on? The Mac.
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The first game I saw that really got me interested in computers was Warcraft 1. A friend of mine had been visiting his cousin and brought back a demo to show me. We loaded it up on my dad’s Macintosh Performa 575 and the rest is history. Blizzard, you’ve always been a mac company, don’t stop now. Don’t forget who you are. That’s what makes you special. Also, on a side note. You used to delay a game until it was ready and sometimes decide that it wasn’t good enough and start over. Where’s that quest for quality at these days? Shareholders are great, but customers are the people who bring success.
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Please add a Mac version!
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Blizzard please make Mac versions of your games again!
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I completely agree! Blizzard should definitely bring their games back to Mac! Back in the day, it was amazing to see titles like Warcraft III running natively on macOS.
It showed real commitment to reaching a broader audience. With Apple’s new hardware like the M1/M2/M3 chips offering such impressive performance, there’s no better time for Blizzard to revisit Mac gaming. It would be great for both longtime fans and new players on macOS!
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Agree. Apple Silicon machines are a beast. Long time blizzard fan. Warcraft 2 was my first game. It would be amazing if it had native Mac support.
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Please support Mac for all your games. The gradual decline of support for Mac by Blizzard is one of the recent Blizzard problems that is most straight forward to make clear, concrete progress on correcting.
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I concur. Blizzard has consistently supported Macintosh computers. With the introduction of the M series of computers, there is no longer any valid reason for not supporting Mac.
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Forgive me for being ignorant or naive or stupid, because I was raised by humans who acted like orcs, not like Thrall.
But Mac, its operating system, or basically being from Apple, is Apple a direct competitor of Microsoft? And is the Mac Operating System, like the Mac itself a unique type of Desktop or Laptop Computer/Platform, a direct competitor of Microsoft and its own Windows Operating System?
Can it perhaps, since Blizzard, Activision, King, Bethesda, Machinegames, Id Software, Arkane, Obsidian, Zenimax and others.
Let’s say that a good piece of the video game entertainment pie is in its total possession and total power.
I repeat, can it perhaps make its services and products do poorly in the competition to harm them?
Is this perhaps the poor treatment that Mac has received the work of corporate policies and decisions against its competition that unfortunately end up affecting users?
I apologize in advance for being a conspiracy theorist, but I ask because I have never seen this before from Blizzard, of neglecting its customers so much.
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Blizzard is, indeed, owned by Microsoft. But Microsoft still makes native MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and probably just about any software they create. One would assume the reason is because $$$. Mac users also pay for software.
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