Hi!
I’ve been an active user of OS X the last years and I think it’s sad that gaming companies and developers doesn’t seem to care about the constantly growing OS X market. There are more and more users of Apple computers which I think game developers should start to take seriously.
Currently I’m running Windows 7 via Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro, but I would love to get rid of Windows once and for all. For a company as huge as ArenaNet I think they should try to be a flagship and show other developers how the future is (they have already changed the MMORPG genre, so why not open up a whole new world of platforms?) going to be.
I’m not putting Guild Wars 2 up against World of Warcraft, but Blizzard have understood how big the OS X market really is. They have even created an OS X client for Diablo 2! I played WoW a bit on OS X and I also tried it via Boot Camp on the same Mac, and the client for OS X was a lot smoother on my Mac as it’s optimized for Mac computers. After some quick use of Google I figured there’s about 10% of OS X users on WoW, which is a huge market if you ask me.
I haven’t found a post or anything wether ArenaNet is going to make a OS X client or not, but my guess will be that they won’t unless they get enough requests for it. I know the game is in an early state, so I’m not asking for a client anytime soon since they would have to program the whole game again to have it on a Mac.
So what do you think? Is it time for developers to see that OS X is becoming a huge market and they need to start focusing on that, or should t hey just do what they do today, tell the user to install Windows and don’t give a kitten.
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Should we get an OS X client for Guild Wars 2?
