Today Apple introduced new Macs - will WoW still run?

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You are such a positive person, like my name.

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Generally, I am, but Apple has historically dropped the gen one stuff like a hot potato. So it’s a risk.

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A computer with a button that goes moo?

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Not sure why that bothers you, but you still play WoW. That’s one of the biggest events leading up to WoW.

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You mean that’s not standard on like, all electronics?

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That’s funny and insightful. I’m not sure if you’re talking about Arthas killing infected people in Stratholme or something else in the game. In any case your point is witty. But my point that Steam has no moral guidelines is still valid.

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No one disputing that sweetheart.

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Given Blizz’ history with supporting mac I feel like it will continue to work.

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What, is it made out of pressed gold?!?

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Blizzard not caring about the five of you with this problem makes the most sense.

You draw weird conclusions.

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Hey, big spender!

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From what I’ve read on other threads on this website, the WoW client software currently uses Intel SSE extensions which I gather are special instructions not supported by Rosetta 2 emulation. Therefore WoW will not run on Apple Silicon Macs in emulation mode. To be able to run WoW, Blizzard will have to do something to their code first. One option is to recompile it to be compliant with Rosetta 2, another option is to recompile it to run natively on Apple Silicon. No idea which one Blizzard will choose, if any. My guess is that Blizzard will announce something at Blizzcon 2021 in Feb.

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Stop buying that garbage and inflating California’s speculative economy with your purchases. Seriously you can get way more with self built desktops. And I say this as a former Apple user. The company prices and quality of products dropped around 2012/2013 for their computers.

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There are 100 million people running MacOS on Macs right now. There are one billion people supporting iOS, and Blizzard’s COO stated last week that they want to target those people with their current games. I would say that’s a little more than the five users you claim I represent.

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Yes this is true, but I thought I remembered their games running on mac even before they were intel. Can’t imagine they would just abandon now.

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I agree, and I think that Apple’s Mac computers could pull out ahead of Windows computers just like iPhones pulled ahead of Windows Mobile. Does Blizzard really want to be a niche developer for an obsolete OS? I don’t think so.

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I think you lost me on that part. I don’t see mac OS taking over windows anytime soon.

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Mac computers are never going to over take Windows with their garbage price points, no self repair, and lets not even get into the fact their laptops are overpriced toaster ovens.

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Where do you think TV Repair shops went? They disappeared because TVs no longer need to be repaired. People throw out TVs when they stop working. Computers are the new TVs. They are commodities. There aren’t many people who get enjoyment from building and repairing computers. I welcome you to the next millennium if you’d like to join me.

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Or you could get a Windows PC for half the price with better hardware that won’t penalize you for fixing your property.

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