Mac GW client? - Guild Wars Guru archive powered by Guild Wars Legacy

generik

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

31 Oct 2005 at 07:25 - 1

Hi,

Seeing as to how Blizzard always releases games for both platforms at the same time, they must have some tricks up their sleeves that the guys at Anet are missing out on!

Any chance that the GW client will be made available for Mac machines too? That way I can get rid of my Windows box for good

Aera Lure

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

In Baltar's head

Bring Out Your Dead [BOYD], former officer [LBS]

Mo/

31 Oct 2005 at 13:07 - 2

I would love this option as well. It would make my Mac very happy.

Luthor

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

31 Oct 2005 at 13:10 - 3

Poor Mac users always get shafted.
I agree, even though I hate macs lol.
I work on them at school and we just use them as paper weights.

kawaii_bat

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Canada, Gatineau

None

Mo/R

31 Oct 2005 at 15:16 - 4

I know about 4 people who would gladly (badly!) buy Guild wars if it ever came out for Macintosh. They only have a Macs as computers and they watch in envy as a I play Guild wars.

Eugaet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

US

Righteous Apathy [RA]

31 Oct 2005 at 15:26 - 5

I've got two friends who would definitely buy GW if they released a Mac client...one of them might even buy it if a linux client shows up. I try not to talk about GW around them much anymore, it just makes them depressed. Their standard reply anytime I do mention it is "Any word on a Mac client, yet?"

They're really sad they're missing out on the Halloween festivities. And these two officer spots I'm holding open for them in my guild have gone quite cold since April.

So how about it Anet? Please make a Mac client!

generik

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

03 Nov 2005 at 13:50 - 6

Yes please

Herr Hong

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

Mo/

04 Nov 2005 at 14:34 - 7

My guess: We will not see a Mac GW till mid 2006, cause then Apple will move to x86 architecture. Most game (and other software developers) probably wont invest money and time into migrating software to the old PowerPC (G4/G5) CPU architecture when a immenent change is about to happen soon.

On the other hand, on new intel based Macs (out sometime 2006) there are two easy options for running GW: 1. hack the Mac and install WinXP on it, 2. run WINE on OS X as seen on Linux x86 PCs to run Windows apps.

... hope that will work, cause I already start saving for a new intel based PowerBook, and I dont want to miss GW on that.

Aera Lure

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

In Baltar's head

Bring Out Your Dead [BOYD], former officer [LBS]

Mo/

04 Nov 2005 at 14:57 - 8

Indirectly good news I suppose, since I may be getting a Powerbook next year. I still think the current release should be ported over to the current G4/G5 architecture, since a new Mac architecture will take some time to filter down to the Mac user base (I wont be buying a new Mac HD for a couple years now, for example). What's actually entailed in performing the migration, I havent any idea.

Its probably not high on Anet's priority list, and I would think Chapter 2 trumps it all but certainly, but here's to wishing for some Mac love.

Addone_Abaddon

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Jersey, Channel Islands

Perfection Is Everything [PiE]

W/

15 Sep 2006 at 19:39 - 9

sorry to bump such an old topic, but I have been waiting for gw to come out on macs, my sister has a windows, and I only get to play gw when she lets me, and it's annoying if she suddenly closes the laptop when I'm in the middle of a HA battle.

I would swap my laptop for hers, but I really like my mac, but still really wannna play gw, so yeah, PLEASE make it for macs

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

15 Sep 2006 at 20:22 - 10

The newer macs running core duos surely wouldnt have such a difficulty with the GW client with bootcamp/parallel?

Addone_Abaddon

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Jersey, Channel Islands

Perfection Is Everything [PiE]

W/

16 Sep 2006 at 00:19 - 11

I don't have an intel mac

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

16 Sep 2006 at 00:51 - 12

tell the stinking mac users to run bootcamp...

Seriously.

http://cad-comic.com/comics/20060513.jpg
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/12

Spike

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

In front of my PC

Kai

E/Mo

16 Sep 2006 at 02:36 - 13

Or they could get a REAL compuer and then they would'nt have the problem

Addone_Abaddon

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Jersey, Channel Islands

Perfection Is Everything [PiE]

W/

16 Sep 2006 at 08:00 - 14

how come all the previous posters in this topic said yes, anyway, LifeInfusion, not mac users are gonna be able to use bootcamp because the intel macs have only just came out and you need one of those to play it.

The mac I'm on cose £600 and I'm not gonna pay another £1000 for an intel one or another £200 for a windows.

pirast

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2007

06 Jan 2007 at 01:52 - 15

I'd also love to have a client for at least Mac ( I am running Linux but because of GuildWars supporting Mac then, there should be an OpenGL option

)

Martin

Tide to Go

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

I War Torn I [Torn]

N/Me

06 Jan 2007 at 05:33 - 16

not to be mean at all, but I dont think anet has enough money to put twords that

that would solve my probs since my computers ecxept for this one is straight mac.

Curse You

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

South Pole

The Magus Order

N/Mo

06 Jan 2007 at 11:05 - 17

I know a guy who would probably buy Guild Wars, only he uses a Mac. It seems like by not having a client for Macs, ArenaNet is probably missing out on a large number of potential buyers.

logan90

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

06 Jan 2007 at 15:57 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curse You

I know a guy who would probably buy Guild Wars, only he uses a Mac. It seems like by not having a client for Macs, ArenaNet is probably missing out on a large number of potential buyers.

I wouldn't say a large number.. Anyone who cares about playing games would just buy a PC and use Windows. It is the platform for gaming. Sure, Windows has its downsides like security, but it can do almost everything a Mac can and more, so unless someone was buying a Mac for a specific purpose I don't see why people would choose a Mac with its tiny selection of games over a Windows PC with millions of games. The number of Mac gamers are small compared to PC users, so it probably wouldn't be worth the time and money it would take. It's all about the target customers.

targetdrone

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

06 Jan 2007 at 16:36 - 19

How about support for a Linux client too?

Would have been easier if Anet had used OpenGL for GW, but I guess its too late now.

Achilles Antony

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

Hangar 18

06 Jan 2007 at 17:07 - 20

A friend of mine is running GW on Linux through a program called Cedega. It does a really great job. He's also running Counter-Strike: Source with it. Since Mac's OS is based on Debian, could something like this work?

Then again, I don't know much about Mac's other than I had to use them for desktop publishing when I took some journalism classes and they crashed all the time. It left a bad taste in my mouth, which is why I'll never get one.

But, for the Linux client question above, look into Cedega... it works.

pirast

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2007

06 Jan 2007 at 17:19 - 21

Quote:

Since Mac's OS is based on Debian, could something like this work?

Mac OS X is not based on Debian, instead, it is based on BSD..

It is possible to run GuildWars with Cedega or Wine on Linux, but the graphics are not that good (I have to run it with DirectX 8) and do not perform as good as on Windows. Native OpenGL support of GuildWars would be really nice.

Quote:

Would have been easier if Anet had used OpenGL for GW, but I guess its too late now.

Yeah, btw, Blizzard offers both, OpenGL and DirectX support.

Martin

Achilles Antony

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

Hangar 18

06 Jan 2007 at 18:18 - 22

Quote:

Originally Posted by pirast

Mac OS X is not based on Debian, instead, it is based on BSD..

You're right. I got my distros mixed up. Oopsie

Quote:

Originally Posted by pirast

It is possible to run GuildWars with Cedega or Wine on Linux, but the graphics are not that good (I have to run it with DirectX 8) and do not perform as good as on Windows. Native OpenGL support of GuildWars would be really nice.

With each new release of Cedega, new features are added to make it look a lot better. When my friend first tried it, it looked terrible (really bad water effects), but a recent update added some more features and it looks great. There are a few things about it that still aren't perfect, but if they continue going in the direction they are going in, it should only get better.

As for the performance, I never really noticed it ran bad since his computer is so good. I'd have to try it out on one of my computers to know for sure. Do a Windows/Linux FPS comparison.