Luckily it's playable. Whether or not Blizzard will ban you for doing it is another story :P GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY!
removedAlso add in fact apple silicon is actually really good. I play 4k ultra on a macbook pro on WoW. no i'm not making that up. 60fps locked in newer zones, 120fps locked in older ones, but variable rate between 60-120 is no big deal cause oh my macbook pro also has a 120hz variable refresh rate display.. everything cranked to ultra. and I hook up to 4k external monitor too that also has variable refresh rate. oh, and i do this while consuming 94 Watts.my gaming PC with 6900XT in it i fire up for diablo 4, but that thing pulls like 400 watts and yes that matters when you game for 12 hour sessions.Also, I can tell you that the reason diablo 4 isn't on mac is not even a good one. blizzard not only has porting capacity, it was already done for overwatch, diablo and the like. and devs have even asked leads "can we release mac version" and get told no, cause then blizz would have to hire QA and CS to support said versions and they don't want to. So it's not a porting issue or a macs can't run it issue it's a straight business decision of not wanting to invest resources in supporting it after the fact, which would be viable if mac wasn't profitable, but again that's not the case either so reasons are still pretty bogus. They definitely ship enough mac copies of wow for it to be profitable not a loss. and same for diablo 3. not doing it for newer games is purely nonsense, like someone at the top going "I mean sure, we'd make a few dollars, but it's chump change, i can't buy more boats with it" type nonsense. and the blizzard of old, was "we just want people to play our games". so it's a change of philosophy with departure blizzard being autonomous and more having strings pulled by activision.so TL/DR, mac support is easy, but activision unwilling. hopefully whoopie and others can make more noise about it and maybe some of devs at blizzard can speak up again about it and it gains traction, because the blizzard that used to believe that everyone should play their games was the better part of blizzard.
Demand is wrongly used here, bit dramatic
She was canceled for like 2 minutes a couple of times. She is in no position to be demanding anything from anyone. She should just be thankful she isn't Chris Hardwick.
This is intriguing, but I'm certainly not willing to pay full retail price for a game that might become temporarily or permanently unplayable due to updates at any time without warning.
This reminds me of the old Rooster Teeth mac commercial parody. "I used to be a gamer, then I got a mac" lol. It is funny how blizzard used to be one of the few companies that would put out games on mac and lately have been shafting them despite macs being more popular than they were in the 90s
Why are people so pressed over someone wanting a game to be put on an OS. It's not that serious y'all.
Interesting but likely not enough for Blizzard to port it. A celebrity being upset with you is one thing, the actual cost of porting it and support is another and that's not a developer decision that's a corporate one and they clearly decided that Mac support didn't make financial sense in terms of return on investment. Funnily enough her complaints would have a higher chance of receiving a resolution via an official port if Blizzard was owned by Microsoft simply for the fact the company desperately wants to save face and avoid looking like its creating a monopoly on Windows because that could spell major problems for profitability.
Does the planned sale of Activision/Blizzard to Microsoft play a role in the decision not to support Mac in D4?From Microsoft's point of view Apple is a competitor, and so AB could have decided to stick on Windows at least until the sale is done.
You could just do what I do, play on Arch Linux and install addons manually. But that would require some intelligence and possibly take a lot of time to learn for people used to getting the hack from father Microsoft ~