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STO Official Beta Mac Version! Coming 11/12/13!

darkelipse04darkelipse04 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited November 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I wanted to say thank, thank, THANK YOU!

This was completely unexpected and so satisfying to hear!

Now the masses of Mac users no longer need to emulate with sub-standard performance (http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=381881) or install Bootcamp/Windows for the sole purpose of running STO.

A million times thank you to PWE/Cryptic for this!
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited November 2013
    It's all our pleasure, and we're so excited too!

    For those who missed it on my Livestream -- Official STO Mac Beta starts on Season 8 launch day, 11/12!

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • jeffel82jeffel82 Member Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Great news for the Mac users out there!
    You're right. The work here is very important.
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  • hyugh2hyugh2 Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    And I *just* spent two nights ago rebuilding the wine wrapper and engine for STO to run on a new laptop.

    Well, glad to see it's official.
  • djconcentusdjconcentus Member Posts: 177 Media Corps
    edited November 2013
    I hope this news means that an Official Linux Client is coming as well.
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  • superherofansuperherofan Member Posts: 342 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Woo hoo! Awesome! Although I do appreciate the people who supported the Wine version for so long!
  • elessymelessym Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Does this mean Arc for Mac as well? If PC users are going to be required to use it...
    "Participation in PVP-related activities is so low on an hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly basis that we could in fact just completely take it out of STO and it would not impact the overall number of people [who] log in to the game and play in any significant way." -Gozer, Cryptic PvP Dev
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited November 2013
    elessym wrote: »
    Does this mean Arc for Mac as well? If PC users are going to be required to use it...

    Our current Arc development plan is focused on the Windows platform.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99
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    edited November 2013
    elessym wrote: »
    Does this mean Arc for Mac as well? If PC users are going to be required to use it...

    I keep seeing this said but it's not a requirement here or in NW. They just make it the default way of downloading a new client, which isn't the ONLY way to get a client. Just the most obvious one.

    And Cryptic was doing that under Atari too, working with partner companies who bundled their software with the game client.

    If you install off a disc or the right third party site, I don't think there's anything that's indicating that you'll NEED ARC.

    And even then if it were required, why panic about ARC? It's a small extra bit of hard disk space. Is PWE less trustworthy than Steam? Why would you think that? If you don't trust PWE with your credit card and analytics data, I'd think you'd be best off not playing STO even without ARC.
  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99
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    edited November 2013
    Also... I'll give you one reason why I'd doubt they'd go ARC mandatory. They JUST worked out a deal with Steam in the last year or so and I can't see launching ARC from Steam.

    I could absolutely see them requiring ARC for new installations of the game downloaded from PWE but that's not the same as it being mandatory for all users since you could always get a disc or use another frontend like Amazon or Steam.
  • mikeward1701mikeward1701 Member Posts: 277 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    This is great news! :)

    Will be interesting to compare performance between the Mac OS X and Windows clients on my 2009 MacBook Pro 13" (MB991*/A).

    How can I collect performance benchmarks for STO and submit them to Cryptic/PWE?
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  • darramouss1darramouss1 Member Posts: 1,811 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    This is awesome news. I hate having to boot my Mac up as a PC as it means I can't use any of my Mac programs.

    Branflakes, do you know whether the game will be able to utilise the full capabilities of the higher end Macs such as the twin quad core or the twin hex core Mac Pros, of will it use a set amount, like 2 or 4?
  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    This is awesome news since I'm a Mac user. Once its tested and stable, I will be looking forward to logging on with the Mac. No more hitting restart, then click the PC Windows option. Then wait like 5 minutes to get it on. Now I can just click and go.

    This is the best news yet. Specially for use Mac users. Since there is many out there.
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  • elessymelessym Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    stoleviathan99 wrote: »
    I keep seeing this said but it's not a requirement here or in NW.

    You haven't been paying attention. They have said that the current launchers will be phased out leaving ARC the only way to run PWE games.
    If you install off a disc or the right third party site, I don't think there's anything that's indicating that you'll NEED ARC.

    Not today. In the future there will be.
    And even then if it were required, why panic about ARC?

    Who's panicked?
    Is PWE less trustworthy than Steam?
    Yes. But that's not the point. For one thing, using Arc loses functionality that we have today.
    If you don't trust PWE with your credit card and analytics data, I'd think you'd be best off not playing STO even without ARC.
    Perhaps we would all be better off not playing STO. Course that'll suck for people who actually want to play the game though. Also for Cryptic people who like being employed.
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  • tobar26thtobar26th Member Posts: 799 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Where's this referenced from? Can't wait!
  • altechachanaltechachan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    tobar26th wrote: »
    Where's this referenced from? Can't wait!

    It was announced at the end of the Season 8 Live Preview Stream.
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  • elessymelessym Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Our current Arc development plan is focused on the Windows platform.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    Not a surprise, but very disappointing. So in other words, Arc will only be mandatory for the people you feel it's worth forcing it upon.
    "Participation in PVP-related activities is so low on an hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly basis that we could in fact just completely take it out of STO and it would not impact the overall number of people [who] log in to the game and play in any significant way." -Gozer, Cryptic PvP Dev
  • neos472neos472 Member Posts: 580 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    elessym wrote: »
    Not a surprise, but very disappointing. So in other words, Arc will only be mandatory for the people you feel it's worth forcing it upon.

    right now the tech for MAC is new until they can actually integrate ARC onto MAC clients they won't have ARC it is an OS thing
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  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Who plays games on a Mac? :P



    This is a good thing, obviously.
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  • darramouss1darramouss1 Member Posts: 1,811 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    I understand that not many people are happy about ARC, but can that be discussed on the numerous ARC threads that are already out there? I'd love to hear what others are thinking about the new Mac client.
  • ufpterrellufpterrell Member Posts: 736 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    This is great news :). Glad I'll be able to play on my Macbook Pro :) (even if the settings will be really low!).
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  • hmallow42hmallow42 Member Posts: 30 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    This is super exciting! Congrats to the team!
  • aridaranaridaran Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    I cant wait to get the Mac Client working, it will beat runing windows on mac.
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  • kalvorax#3775 kalvorax
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    edited November 2013
    unikon wrote: »
    I guess this explains why DX11 mode is still broken.

    whats broken about it?

    And gratz to Mac users...though i myself only use a mac for my DSLR photo Class.
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  • darkelipse04darkelipse04 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Not sure what DX11 has to do with this announcement....the 12th can't come soon enough!
  • puttenhamputtenham Member Posts: 1,052 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    nice, I have a friend who found it too frustrating to try to run pc programs on his comp.. he will be pleased as I always tell him of the updates and he has been itching to play..

    all I have to say is 4 years late, I guess better than never.. lol...
  • daan2006daan2006 Member Posts: 5,346 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    you mac ppl will one day see mandatory ARC dont think PWE going to forget you............
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  • stotomroseukstotomroseuk Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Mac client! My work flow just got reduced. At last.

    Been using a the codeweavers build to good effect or boot camp for series sessions but a mac client at last is awesome news.

    Got there eventually cryptic!
  • abrookfield82abrookfield82 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Wooooooooo! Thanks Cryptic! I'll download the beta Mac client and give it a whirl as soon as it's released. I'm looking forward to the day when I can delete my Windows bootcamp partition.

    Also, just wanted to say thanks to therealdoh123 for providing the Unofficial Mac version - wouldn't have given STO a go without it.
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