As someone who uses a Mac solely at work...this is your own fault. The writing has been on the wall that Macs are not gaming machines for years now. Overwatch isn't even supported.
There is literally nothing a Mac can do that a PC can't these days. You made the choice, probably based on looks, to buy a Mac that costs twice what the equivalent PC costs. It's on you. Try Bootcamp or Parallels if that's even still a thing.
Blizzard isn't going to prioritize an issue that only affects 1% of it's player base, and can you really blame them?
Blizzard ain't gonna touch this shit unless they magically stumble upon it. Just like Epic games stopped support for MacOS and Linux in Rocket League, it's just not feasible in any shape or form
As someone who mostly uses PCs. Geez, community.. Stop the poor tone towards Mac users. Blizzard has advertised that it has a Mac client for WoW and is even mentioned as a major partner by Apple. To my understanding that client usually works fine and has for over a decade, but is now broken. That simply points to shitty QA as with all things 8.3 and Blizzard in general nowadays.
Be pissed alongside the Mac userbase instead. They're being treated badly by blizzard, they shouldn't be by you.
I remember thinking back in WoD that the Mac client was held together with scotch tape and prayers. It plays OK from a USB stick if you want to have a small boot camp partition and not have to take the ever growing WoW client size into account.
Blizzard treating their Mac player base like shit isn't new. They invited people to come be shitty to them after telling they they didn't care if they stayed or left back in Wrath.
Yeah but still...
Nothing against Linux, but after being for sooo long on the internet now, it has become quite annoying seeing all these off-topic linux fanboy comments.
I mean just look at this thread: OP has been running WoW on a Mac for probably a very long time, but now he has some major issues with the latest patch. 90% of all comments are just off-topic and discuss how Mac's aren't for gaming, how they suck etc, or in the case of the guy I replied to: He is bragging that he is running WoW on Linux (through an emulator) and how it is running so well (and even says that it would run better than on a mac even though he has no idea).... like 1.) who cares and 2.) what does this have to do with the OP
As software becomes more and more complex, its only fair for developers to focus there resources where it makes sense. Now a days you can slap together a good gaming desktop together for cheap...AMD 1600F, maybe a 1650 super, and some high speed ram...
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Fuck off you piece of shit blizzard shill. They ADVERTISE that this game works on all macs, SO IT SHOULD WORK.
Look, it’s fucking obvious that sometimes bugs happen, but this game has been UNPLAYABLE FOR 3 WEEKS NOW for a SIGNIFICANT portion of their player base. MANY people play WoW on macs, so fuck the right fuck off with your BULLSHIT
Same honestly. It’s been fine for me, so maybe it’s certain models/certain graphics cards that are having issues.
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Honestly, when a company says they support an OS then they should support an OS (despite how large or small the portion of players are).
From experience they do tend to take their time with Mac fixes, but they also do respond when people have issues though. They have such a smaller Mac team so issues to get pushed to the back and it can be frustrating - I’ve found fixes to stuff before they have in the past before, it is usually the players that respond with them before they find them themselves.
This issue is not Mac specific, lot of PC users bleeding from this and no cure for it yet there either.
Blizz has NO IDEA what is causing this, they just are posting the default message to lower setting, set to DX11 legacy, which only delay or less the Freezes, but not eliminate it.
Citation needed.
Incidentally, your original post is incorrect. There's nothing a PC can do that a Mac can't (assuming you want to contaminate it with Windows, that is).
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