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Vincent Athena
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Posted - 2012.06.07 23:04:00 -
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The situation is even worse for me. My MBP is provided free by work, and they want all laptop users to always be using their company computer. As a result they allow game playing on it. But its also automatically backed up by the company backup system. That system cannot backup a bootcamp partition. So, unless required for work and there is no other option: no bootcamp. The result: Either there is some form of Eve on a Mac, or I would have to buy a computer for the singular purpose of eve, or I'd just stop playing (the likely outcome).
Also eve is quite playable for me. I hit one of the annoying bugs (freeze, sticky mouse) once or twice a week. I sure do not want it to go away.
But I also sure would like a native version of it. The graphics would be so much faster!
Edit: its not native now because it would be a huge development effort, and an ongoing effort to maintain it as expansions are rolled out. I'm not convinced CCP has done the economic trade study properly on if its worth it. A native version would attract and retain many more Mac users and could well pay for its development. Even the inde game "Aquaria" has both a PC and a Mac version, and it was written by a grand total of 2 people. It cannot be that hard.
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Vincent Athena
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Posted - 2012.06.12 20:08:00 -
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Dersen Lowery wrote:..............
The ultimate solution would be for CCP to write their own OpenGL layer and ship a DirectX build to Windows and OpenGL to Mac (and Linux), but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
The real, ultimate solution to this is more Mac users playing EVE.
Or one client with both DirectX and OpenGL calls, and the client just uses whichever one is appropriate for the OS.
Will OpenGL work on a PC? At all? Could CCP drop DirectX, do everything in OpenGL and have it work for everyone?
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Posted - 2012.07.03 14:18:00 -
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"3) What I am questioning here is the practice of implying a product is made for a certain operating system when it is quite obviously the opposite. This is just wrong. There's no getting away from this fact. It is a fact."
"Imply" is in the eye of the beholder. CCP is not responsible for what you think they implied. Why do we not stick to facts? Has CCP said, anywhere, that Eve was written for the Mac? Ive only seen " available for the Mac", "now on the Mac", "runs on a Mac" and such. Ive never seen "made for the Mac".
Any yes, I do agree that you believe they implied it was written for the Mac. Your belief is a fact. I do not share it.
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