Yes Microsoft does have some apple products (Word Processing for one) but… With the absolutely tiny percentage of people that game on a Mac i wonder if this means Mac support will actually be tossed into the wind.
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Mac users are a bigger community than you think.
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You’ll find it’s smaller than you think.
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I would be very surprised if they dropped it. Apple and MS both know they need to be on speaking terms, and a tiny dig like that would be pointless.
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Minecraft would like to say otherwise.
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Hell even blizzard was starting to drop it, Some of their newer stuff didn’t release on OSX (Overwatch)
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I think this is funny as it should be the other way around. When I was in art school the game designers used pc to develop on while the graphic designers use macs. PC was for all laid back kids, but the professionals used MAC.
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Overwatch is not the IP that WoW is, even in it’s decline. Regardless, I hope it remains for MAC, and am inclined to believe it will.
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I don’t know if they will drop MAC support but I bet they drop AMD support, joke, it is known fact MS favors Intel over AMD, look at the the crap AMD owners went through with Win11 release.
Overwatch was built from the ground up and it was one of the biggest games in the industry at one point in time, So blizzard ~COULD~ of added support for it at the start.
Keep in mind i am not saying they should continue to support MAC, Nor saying they should ditch it, Comparitively i am part of the biggest LAN event in the southern hemisphere and i don’t think i saw a Mac at any one of our last 10 events (Before we stopped for covid) For anything other than the sound stage.
And that’s only because the guy had it spare, WE are a purely volunteer org
I don’t know how great mac support was in recent years from Blizzard.
When BFA came out I couldn’t get it to run well at all even at the lowest settings.
For about a year I tried everything they suggested and nothing worked. At the end of the day they all but said “why are you using a mac?”
People play games on a mac?
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I like the Mac guy better in Jeepers Creepers.
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I doubt it.
I’d recommend anyone serious about gaming to switch over to PC anyway. Mac has absolutely no idea what it’s doing with regards to OS compatibility. One of the more recent updates Thanos-snapped my Steam library, rendering half the games unplayable. On Blizz’s end, Heroes of the Storm started spitting out graphical glitches that rendered the game unplayable, and after two years they were never able to figure out how to fix it.
Bought a nice shiny Lenovo laptop and never looked back. No issues with any games now whatsoever.
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Thankfully, Overwatch is a hot steamy pile of you know what.
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Yes. Families do buy Mac to integrate Apple TV and their iTunes accounts for the whole family. Which means the family computer is a Mac and people do play games on it.
My brother’s household and his entire neighborhood in Indianapolis do the same. Just depends on personal preference. Not everyone lives the same type of life.
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That’s not an Apple issue. That’s the game designer’s not caring to make it compatible. Apple’s source is open to game development, but designers don’t spend the time.
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Since I’m not involved in LAN events, I’ll take your word on Overwatch’s burst window, I certainly was excited to follow the OWL at the time - but from a less involved seat at the table, OW has not demonstrated the longevity that WoW has and their burst window was shorter.
I am aware that MAC use grows less and less. Microsoft woke up to the “give it away to kids” strategy that Apple deployed to great success. I still root for them and AMD, even if I would not purchase either, because of the competition aspect.
That must of have been really cool to be part of that LAN event. It sounds fantastic! Hopefully you can resume them in 2023, if not a bit sooner.