Hi all, i write this topic since i want to show there are many Mac users who wants a native client? What does it mean?
Simple: now Guild Wars 2 runs on Mac thanks a Cider portability engine, it is a wrapper which incapsulate the Windows program inside a Mac app. The program itself will be “converted” (api, calls, gfx drivers…) on the fly. This takes a lot of resources and slow down the entire process, even if Cider is quite good nowadays there are still problems… as you can see from a lot of thread here.
Native clients means:
-Much more better integration with Mac OS X
-Improved stability
-Much more improved performance (better effect with more frames per second)
-Mac specific features could be easily implemented (like Quicktime game recording)
-NCSoft could see this on Mac App Store, it would open the game to an incredible number of Mac users, sadly they didn’t imagine how many. I would even buy it again
Sure this takes time and money to our beloved NCSoft/ArenaNet so we need to speak out load all to convince them we are a lot.
PS: Cider has a lot of problems like this
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/support/mac/Mac-Beta-Client-Config-Tweaks-Files/first#post1211110
it uses only 256MB of Vram!! HORROR :-O
I love this game and i want it native, i’m playing with 5 friends who i convinced to buy the game, we all have Mac, we are all happy of the game but not satisfied of this client!
Most modern MMO are all Mac OS X native: WOW, TLotRO, Elder Scrolls Online and many others.
PS: Guild Wars Support suggested to me to create a thread about this, it means they are at least listening.
