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Psycha Novice Member Joined: 12/20/06 Posts: 11	1/30/07 8:23:49 AM#1 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) What is this deal that SOE has about not allowing MAC users to play? Do they have a personal vendetta out for them? It is the reason I think that WoW has a lot of people about half of them are MAC users!!! I give my person experiances as my reasons. I have ten friends, 7 of them are Mac users.. and all 7 of them said that they would have tried EQ2 if it allowed them to play it but since they cant.. they all went to Wow. I am annoyed because I really love EQ2 and would love for my friends to share the experiance but they simply CANT! And then SOE makes the statement that no MAc version will ever be released for EQ2. I see SOE as shooting themselves in the foot for this. I mean seriously... if Neverwinter nights can make Mac and Pc play together and if WoW can do it.. then why cant EQ2???????
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fawdown Novice Member Joined: 3/05/06 Posts: 182 Elim Darvar of Hodstock Permafrost-Everquest 2	2/01/07 12:37:52 PM#2 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) I doubt half of the WoW users are MAC owners. 5.6 million WoW players out of 8 million are in China, where there are damn few macs. I think the problem comes from EQlive for MAC, where the user base was a disappointment for SOE. I don't think they wanted to put money into such an uncertain thing. There are a lot of limits MAC users have to get use to if they are gamers.
Tyrranosaur Apprentice Member Joined: 12/18/06 Posts: 269	3/14/07 6:46:24 PM#3 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Speaking as a Mec defector, I reluctantly admit that I abandoned my iMac in 2005 specifically so I could enjoy all the games available to the PC. While I have no regrets, I do miss the old Mac days.....sort of...... I don't really know why the Mac has such lousy game support, but I have to admit that the average Mac user is probably not much of a game player. At least, all the Mac users I know wouldn't touch EQ 2 or WoW with a ten-foot pole. Current MMOs: Rift, Tera, SWTOR, DDO Blog: http://www.realmsofchirak.blogspot.com
w175jab Novice Member Joined: 1/23/06 Posts: 241	3/14/07 6:55:20 PM#4 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Apple = Developer's Tool (Graphics, Sound, Some Students, ECT) PC = Public Consumable (Offices, Gamers, Students, ECT) *shrugs
Ciderax Novice Member Joined: 7/05/04 Posts: 19	4/11/07 1:53:20 PM#5 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) I agree but that's what they get for buying a mac :)
Othesus Novice Member Joined: 1/20/06 Posts: 3	6/27/07 7:49:48 PM#6 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) If your friends have a new Mac with an Intel processor and a decent graphics card they can boot up into Windows with boot camp and run any Windows games. It's not really "running on a Mac" since it's just running Windows like any PC but they would be able to play EQ2 that way.
Psycha Novice Member Joined: 12/20/06 Posts: 11	6/28/07 5:39:58 AM#7 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Ok well funny thing happened.. My pc died. So I decided to take the plunge. I went and bought a intel mac installed BootCamp and reinstalled EQ2 onto it. Ok before this I admit I was saying that I wished that eq2 was cross platform.. Well, Sony wouldnt go to mac so mac went to sony (and yah I know they didnt do it just for this game.. no need to grind that topic). The game runs better than I have EVER seen it on my older PC. The graphics are stunning and I can run it at maxed lvls with very little problems (excepting raid groups of 24 where the spell effects can cause the bogging of the most powerful comps). Gave me a whole new respect for macs and all I can say to this is.. sorry Sony you missed out on a potential sale.. I would have rebought the program to have it run but since I could use the pc version.. no sale here. Not that it makes me unhappy.. thats $$ back into my pocket