As a long time Blizzard gamer, I’ve been dedicating more and more of my time to non-Blizzard games. Not because I dislike Blizzard games, but because I can’t play with them without jumping through crazy hoops, either creating home-ported versions or partitioning my HD and installing Windows. In fact, the latter is no longer even possible on Apple Silicon.
I don’t know how much it costs a development team in time and resources to port a Mac version of a game natively designed for Windows, but I assume sales of the game would exceed this cost. Maybe just not by enough to meet the insane margins some video game companies expect to see out of their games these days.
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Yeah exactly. The way I think about it though…More accessibility more sales. Being available on Apple Silicon opens the door to being available on iOS–I’m sure a week of sales in Immortal is more than enough to pay for porting.
On that note, it would be interesting to see what it costs or what goes into making a Mac port. It’s in their interest to go for it, other than porting and releasing updates–it’s not like you need a whole new department.
Finally, Apple has name dropped blizzard during their events recently when talking about gaming. So it’s not like the relationship is dead.
Also, I was sad to learn that the new games don’t run on Mac… I hope this changes, but I doubt it will. For now, I’ll stick with Warcraft 3 Reforged and World of Warcraft
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RE WC3 at this point I’d be happy with the classic client (patch 1.27?) that can run on M series chips.
The whole reforged situation is just a shambles
Yeah no kidding. It’s really too bad. The more I think about it, the more it seems like it would be important to have this game functioning well on Mac platforms –– including the remasters. So many other MOBA’s have Mac support, Warcraft 3 must just have a smaller fan base. But at the same time, it can only grow if it’s on more platforms! Check out my post on reddit, it seems to have gotten some attention and discussion. It would be great if the conversation kept going and got picked up by influences who maybe could get Blizzards attention:
https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1grzsgq/blizzard_games_on_mac/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Thanks for posting, and I truly hope this changes. Mac has been a great platform for me to play WoW on and after recently branching over into Warcraft, it’s a shame I can’t experience the new remasters minus WIII. I absolutely expected a WI and WII remaster release for Mac.
The tech support thread has been updated. They are working on the problem.
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