First of all, English is not my native Language so, please, be patient and point out any gross mistake in your comments ... thank you :)
Ok, let's start.
I'm not going to keep this blog up-to-date with every single novelty that happens in the Mac scene ... I'm too lazy for this and my goal - to be honest - is to simply keep al my Mac-related posts in one central place.
Fortunately (for my indolence), there aren't many games of this kind out there so most of my comments will probably regard a pretty short list of MMOs ... here are the main projects that I'm going to look through:
- A Tale in the Desert (nth Tale)
- Darkwind - War on Wheels
- Dofus
- Eternal Lands
- EVE Online
- Everquest Mac Edition
- GraalOnline
- Minions of Mirth
- Myst Online: URU Live
- Lineage - Episode V: Temple of Shadows
- Oberin
- Planeshift
- Pirates of the Caribbean Online
- Second Life
- Shadowbane
- Vendetta Online
- World of Warcraft
- Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
and a few other alpha, indie and shareware titles, both new and old (from Furcadia to First Star Online, from Adellion to Afterworld and Dawn of Daria). There are also a few Java-based MMOs that I would like to report here (Wurm Online and Arindal comes to mind).
Stay tuned (but do not hold your breath).
Pietro
well, even though it is an old game... Diablo II Lord of Destruction is qualifies as an MMO, right? If so, then add it to your list ;)
Fri Jan 18 2008 6:41AMNice plan of yours. I wish you best luck in playing/looking into these games, tho im not a Mac user.
Fri Jan 18 2008 8:42AMI don't think Diablo II qualifies, but it's a hell of a good game. This certainly brings the point that we need to have the gamelist show by platform.
Fri Jan 18 2008 8:56AMLineage 1 here in the US doesn't have a lot of action on it, but if you speak the language you could play on the Korean server which are still pretty active.
Fri Jan 18 2008 10:14AMThe Mac client of Lineage is a mess (the scrolling is terrible) but the game itself is really superb. Even though I tend to prefer the modern games rather than the classic ones, I love when a project focus on art direction and Lineage still looks great after all these years.
I've played it for a month a couple of years ago (I was working on a feature story for an Italian Mac magazine) and I've found it enjoyable. The community on the LoA server was very mature and friendlly, adventuring and questing was a lot of fun. The current fee it's a bit too expensive, maybe, for a game this old but, given its community, I don't think that a F2P option would suite well for Lineage ...
Unfortunately, I'm a casual gamer, married, old and lazy and my only source of joy - nowaday - are the trials ... I use to play MMOs for a month just to have a taste of their gameplay.
Lineage US community is a bit small, you're right, but this isn't necessarily a limit, at least for me. The best communities I've met have been the ones of Ryzom, EQMac and Vendetta Online, go figure ...
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Fri Jan 18 2008 10:59AMInstall Fusion and/or Parallels and if the game you want to play does not work in those, make a native Windows install through bootcamp on a seperate partition. This way your Mac can play all Windows games, MMO or not :)
Sat Jan 19 2008 7:40AMHi Pete. I applaud this list, as I'm a new mac user. I don't suppose that as you could make the list linked to their websites.
Sun Apr 27 2008 12:24PMThank you , gerthdynn.
I'm not sure these games have the necessary appeal to deserve a place of their own on mmorpg.com. The most popular among them (PoTCO, VO, Shadowbane, MoM ...) are available for multiple platforms and are already linked on the official Gamelist. The only absent that may deserve its own place here may be Everquest Mac Edition ... it has a small community of players but it's still alive and healthy.
Anyway ... I'm optimist. The indie scene is pretty lively these days and there are a few new interesting projects on the horizons ... too bad I'm so busy lately :(
Tue Apr 29 2008 1:10AMMMORPG.com writes:
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