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carbongrip
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This was talked about a while back and was mention by a dev. that it was being looked into... whats the news? Is it coming so I can dump microsoft? Anyways would anyone else like to see this? If so then please post and help show your support!
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Cool thanks for posting link, every help show your support! No more bootcamping!
-Edmund Blackadder-
lol you should not even beable to play using Parallels to run STO,does not work I tried it. Only good for quickly setting up duty officer missions. You need bootcamp for now:D
Thank god.
EHh, .. I use wine and it cashes constantly. Other than that wine is OK.
While I agree that Wine is a good solution at the moment (I play on my Mac using CrossOver), to say that it's not really necessary for them to Mac a Mac client is going too far, I believe.
Most people don't have the technical know-how to get a Wine wrapper working or just can't be bothered. Having an official Mac client that installs easily and runs will (the Wine wrappers are buggy, no denying that) will open the game to Mac fans who otherwise would not be able to or want to play the game.
Considering that Macs are the number 1 notebooks in the US for several years running now, for example, I think that there are enough Mac users these days to warrant the effort for an official client.
Lifetime Subscriber since Open Beta
im sure it will be more buggy and in the end it will make the game more buggy.
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Yeah really. Not all of us like typing 140 character sentences. -_-
Also, Ubuntu and OSX aren't really that much different, they are basically cousins, Wine sucks in general, even for other programs, and the graphics quality is terrible. Other than the eye candy Ubuntu is pretty much mac under the hood aside from being fine tuned. Unix vs Linux. Congrats to those who are Ubuntu users for getting away from Windows and choosing a superior OS.
STO needs to be across all platforms, it may be using resources now but in the end it will allow them to make more money, more players, more money, turns into more content because they will want to sustain their active player count. That's how WoW did it.
And, with a Mac version I wouldn't have to turn off my media server while playing STO.
Anyway, good job cryptic, thanks for this, it's been along time waiting.
PS I agree, they should be posting more info on this on their main site and keeping everyone up to date. Not only with this but other projects everyone is wondering about and they aren't talking about.
I signed up for this game and these forums. I would expect to be able to communicate with the developers through their own services instead of a third part website that I don't even wish to sign up for.
Where have you been? Have you not seen windows is not as popular in the personal world as it used to be? Even company's have been pulling away from windows or using old versions of windows like windows 7 or xp. Pixar movies is a big mac using company, its not 1978!
You may not want it but there are many users that want unix support for mac and ubuntu. I really don't think it will cause many bugs, just needs some updating.
Yeah don't get it, not everyone does that kind of chirping, cheeping, or what every you want to call it. These forums is where things belong.
And yes, windows is on its way out, it's starting to loose its foothold because it's just in all actuality a crappy OS. And no I'm not a fanboy, I switched to Mac because I got tired of having to fx my computer as well as other peoples windows machines. Viruses, malware, and spyware are windows major weak points, and now this horrible metro UI. Unix and Linux, that's what you want.
It would also make a blazing trail if they released it on Xbox and Playstation. Making a port would be painful but boy would the subscriptions fly through the roof since the game is really solid now.
Mac gaming is always behind the PC platform. It's the same hardware now so I don't get all this ridiculous fuss about Mac and PC. They use the same freaking hardware base now.
Porting them for one to another should be alot easier now. But who knows.....
lol, instead you just get to buy a new one every 6 months?
new mac os comes out.. no problem.. what cant upgrade.. a new one costs how much??
yet my 7 year old pc is running windows 7 with no problems.. its actually faster then the os that came on it..
try doing that on a mac.
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as it is now i cant go a couple hours without the game crashing to the desktop or going non responsive and timing out..
im sure they will fix that problem first right?? *rolls eyes*
[12:44] Vessel One of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 1019527 (1157678) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Energy Bolt Explosion.
OS X Mavericks, coming out later this year, supports Macs from 2007... Nice try.
The misinformation that Windows fanboys spread around is just mind-numbing.
Lifetime Subscriber since Open Beta
Um do you not realize that mac os x mavericks can support computers that are 7 years old? Supports 2007 macs or newer! Oh and I can run windows 7 no problem to as thats how I currently play STO...
Yayyyy I can dump the god awful PC and just use my sex-godess-of-a-mac!
Again Lol replace it every 6 months? This isn't Android we're talking about.