where theres a will theres a way
The same way we play Diablo IV. Oh wait…
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I’m sad about the lack of support for MacOS for the new remasters, though not surprised. I suppose I should be grateful they haven’t given up on WoW yet.
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I admit I was surprised, given that the originals had Mac versions, and WC3 reforged does as well. Hopefully they’ll release a Mac version at some point. I was looking forward to them after the announcement, then saddened when they weren’t available.
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the mac ver of reforged was unoptimised junk iirc but maybe im remembering wrong I did the free refund.
I wouldn’t count on it. blizzard as a company is just very much done with mac outside of the soft support they have on a few remaining existing products
I agree that Blizzard probably doesn’t have much interest in Mac support these days, but even if they did they’d basically have to rewrite these games from scratch to get them working again. They pre-date OSX so would need to be rewritten for Cocoa since Carbon is no longer supported, they would need to be converted to 64 bit, they pre-date Xcode so the build tools probably don’t exist anymore and it wouldn’t even have been written in Objective C anyway, any third-party libraries they used would likely need to be replaced, any Motorola assembly language used for performance optimization would need to be replaced, and so on.
There’s a lot you can say about the relative merits of MS vs Apple, but one thing MS has always put more effort into is backward compatibility. Apple likes to set fire to the house every decade or so, it’s a lot to keep up with.
kinda ironic they stood with Mac through all the lean years, but now that Mac is on a resurgence with great cheap computers like the new mini, they want to abandon what made them one of the great gaming companies
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Ehhhhhhh…I wouldn’t call any Mac “cheap”. While their CPUs are indeed beast mode, for games you can get a more powerful Windows PC for the money in virtually every case. Where Macs shine is the OS, UX (user experience), and versatility that their ARM64 CPUs offer. But by no means are they cheap, especially if you want to game without hitting swap (i.e. you get more RAM because the base amounts are still mostly woefully under what is ideally needed for modern gaming).
take a look at the M4 mini introduced last week for $599
try to find current ANY PC in that range - it will also have only integrated video that is a good bit slower
what you said may have been true years ago but not today
And to make things worse, the remasters appear to require OpenGL 4.6 so won’t run under Wine either.
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but if the only game you care about is WoW, then you’re golden 
There would be a Mac version if Steve Jobs were alive.
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i havent used parallels (virtual machine) in years but
its a 2d game right? might still perform under that.
It probably would, but Parallels is, I think, $75/year. A bit more than I’m willing to commit, even for some cool classics like these. But I suppose the option is there for those who can’t live without them.
many use vmware route cause it’s free and it’ll even auto install arm based windows for you.
FYI WC1 (original version) is available for Mac on GoG for $5.99 - I own it & can DL it right now
WC2 is available but only for PC today