Nah_NotReally Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 I have friends who make bad choices by buying macs over pc's and they want to play this awesome game but can't because of they refuse to think ahead. Please help these misguided people out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosstnt Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 tell them to install windows on their mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EChondo Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Hey, it's their choice. Either bootcamp or emulate, otherwise play the waiting game. Also, isn't it kind of funny that DE ported the game to PS4 and Xbone before Mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirukaChan Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Tell them to buy a big kid computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheErebus. Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Aside from what these guys are saying, yeah I think they should port it to mac. If my Mac can run Metro: Last Light with little to no lag, it can run warframe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shion963 Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Hey, it's their choice. Either bootcamp or emulate, otherwise play the waiting game. Also, isn't it kind of funny that DE ported the game to PS4 and Xbone before Mac? IIRC/AFAIK something about how modern consoles use the same thing like directx and mac ports requiring the whole game to be redone in opengl rather than a simple port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaru Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Two ways to game on a mac. Option one: 1) Save up enough for a Mac. 2) Buy an dedicated gaming PC and forget about getting a Mac. Option two: 1) Buy Mac. 2) Use Mac as mousepad for your gaming PC. Jokes aside, I think that DE has said they have no intention of porting to Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryokuzaki Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Tell them to get a REAL computer, not that hipster instagram S#&$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaru Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Tell them to get a REAL computer, not that hipster instagram S#&$. That is not a very productive response. For a number of things (mainly graphical design stuffs) Macs work better than PC's. Do I own or want a Mac? Nope, but that doesn't make it not a "real" computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taiiat Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 (mainly graphical design stuffs) Macs work better than PC's. nowadays, they're equal. years ago, that would certainly be true though. but now everyone has the same hardware and the software is either the same(usually this one) or actually better on Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheErebus. Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 That is not a very productive response. For a number of things (mainly graphical design stuffs) Macs work better than PC's. Do I own or want a Mac? Nope, but that doesn't make it not a "real" computer. Mac is a computer. PC is a computer Both preform in different ways Both have advantages and disadvantages. But they are still both Computers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Himmelberg Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 (edited) Tell them to get a virtual machine and install windows, if they can set up everything correctly, they'll be able to play as well. -Edit: as long as their macs have enough juice to run both operating systems without lag or crashes (Decent quad-core CPU, and at least 8 Gb of RAM) Edited October 19, 2014 by double0gamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EChondo Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 IIRC/AFAIK something about how modern consoles use the same thing like directx and mac ports requiring the whole game to be redone in opengl rather than a simple port. PS4 games are rendered in OpenGL. DirectX is a Windows proprietary renderer, Sony isn't going to pay Microsoft just to use their software when they can use an open standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MirageKnight Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 (edited) As I said in another thread on the topic of running Warframe under Mac OS: I'm certainly not opposed to the idea of DE making Warframe available to Mac gamers by porting it to run natively in Mac OS. If they had the resources and financial influx to support a port of WF for Mac OS, I'd say go for it. That being said, players that use Mac OS as their gaming platform are a rather small, niche market and all available evidence seems to point to the fact that porting to Mac OS would require additional staff and effort - meaning additional expense. DE doesn't feel like a large company that can really afford that kind of additional expense - I feel they're straining enough with Xbox One and PS4 porting as is. Therefore, pursuing a Mac OS version of Warframe - at present at least - would really not be in their best interests. A Mac OS port for Warframe is really not going to be an option anytime soon. So to the OP, tell your friends that installing Windows on an alternate partition or a VM on their Mac's is the only option aside from buying a PC that runs Windows to begin with. If they're too snobbish or unwilling to set up a partition or VM to run Windows...well, that's their problem. Edited October 19, 2014 by MirageKnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bWild Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 If your friends are able to pay the extra money for a mac they can get windows for like 30-40$ aswell. Installing with bootcamp is easy. Apple provides driver packages for Windows. Your friends can use it for any other game aswell. I use Windows and Mac OS every day. I've never had any problems. No offense but the extra effort has to be on their side and not on DE's side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeis Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 i'm in, i have a pc and i always stay with pc ( no console too), but if console got some love from de why not mac users? aren't they money spenders ? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MirageKnight Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 @Zeis: See my earlier post for a plausible reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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