They are still supporting the Mac, just not for all of their properties. Diablo IV will hit the Mac sometime after it drops for the PC, while the Overwatch franchise will continue to be PC/Console only. Hearthstone is still cross-platform as well.What's more to the point, neither Diablo II nor Diablo IV has a confirmed Mac release, in fact, they explicitly state "not available for Mac". Seems like Blizzard is giving up on Mac users.
Why would Mac owners need 2000's Diablo II? We played that for years even if its got updated graphics, its the same old ending.What's more to the point, neither Diablo II nor Diablo IV has a confirmed Mac release, in fact, they explicitly state "not available for Mac". Seems like Blizzard is giving up on Mac users.
a) Wow Classic is not native but supposedly it will be in the burning crusade classic expansion
Diablo IV will not be coming to the Mac. Blizzard already stated so. This has been stated over and over again.
Launcher is currently not native... will be eventually. While you don't need the launcher to play WoW (Classic or otherwise), you do need it for updating the game client. So, if they choose to never update the launcher, you will lose access to WoW. Which is why it will be, eventually...
Has it? I haven't seen any confirmation one way or the other. I don't disbelieve you, but I would like to see the statement myself. The "Not available on Mac" for the launcher is still fairly ambiguous, because they used that same language for the Warcraft 3 Reforged beta. Which did come on the Mac by launch date.
The reason that Overwatch and Diablo IV will never be available on the Mac is because it uses too many PC instruction sets that will not translate. The game would have to be entirely rewritten to support the Mac... INTEL or ARM... and its too late in the development process for that to happen.
Reforged is using the same old engine from 2002, so it's not surprising it's running on macOS.
Nothing definite has been said really about that. We know Diablo 4 is not this year, could be still a 2 to 3 years, it’s a game environment still being tested in a pre alpha state with one large area where they are testing the characters and what they encounter. This is a new gaming engine. The 3 listed below were mentioned during the earliest system requirements. The fact that it says medium requirements doesn’t say it couldn’t be run in some environment that a Mac could use, example VM, Wine, and so on.
Even if the game released in 2035 and Apple had a machine that made quantum computing look like a joke when it came to graphics processing... it still doesn't change the fact that some code is not portable... it literally has to be written for a specific platform from the onset. WoW was written for the Mac OS at the onset. It wasn't ported to the Mac after the fact.
Yes we know your view.
We understand your opinion not based on Blizzard staff comments, but given the game takes about 4 years to develop (based on 2008-2012 for D3) we just have to wait to 2023 to see.
No idea where you got the timeline. A former Blizzard employee who worked on it stated that development for D3 started in 2001, back at Blizzard North. Development started with Windows and Mac versions in mind and it went through several iterations before it was first shown to the public in 2008.
Only based on the first public showing to the eventual release to Microsoft Windows and OS X in May 2012, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September 2013, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in August 2014. Not at all behind the scenes work for years before that. I'm sure D4 has had a lot longer lead with development as you said unannounced.
Acti-Blizz (not the same Blizzard of the past, make that distinction) is not interested in anything but wringing the most profit with the least creativity or passion.
People always say this, but don't seem to realise exactly how long ago the merger happened. It was in 2008. They've been Activision-Blizzard almost as long as they were just Blizzard. Most of WoW, including the expansions regarded as the best were under this umbrella. Both SC2 and D3 came out after this.
Yes, but again... development for D3 started in 2001, development for SC2 started in 2004 if I remember correctly (could have been 2003). So the merger has very little influence on these games. If anything, after 2008 it had an impact on character/level design and optimization of code (removing bugs, etc.), but not introducing new features.
Yes, it seems Blizzard’s board of directors had a discussion on whether to support the Mac or the PC and they chose the CCP.
This nonsense again. It's plain and simple, they've voted with their wallet. Do the math, when it costs more money to release a game for macOS than what you actually make from the macOS players who buy it, then it's not worth to bother about it. I'd do exactly the same.
That is exactly what I mean. All their decisions are financially motivated. I'm not sure what you thought I meant.
Sorry, was reading the CCP comment as their connection to China and as some people always claim that China owns Activision/Blizzard and they do their bidding. It's all about money in the end.