Blizzard hopes to release Macintosh beta client sometiem in April.

There is the link from the battle.net forums.

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23767157319&sid=3000

And here is the quote from it.

I'm not sure if this quote or the entire twitter chat has already been posted in the forums yet. But feel free to say here if ti has.

 

Mac?
No way man.

 

lolmac

 

I tend to laugh at people who bash the Apple without thinking. They just don't get it.

 

I don't really care about the feud, PC's are just better for me cause I play video games. But in my experience Macs crash way more than pc's..... My mom got a brand new Mac Book Pro and it gets the "Umbrella of Death" all the time....

 

How could someone even have the audacity to ask Blizz if there will be a Mac beta? Just be happy Blizz bothers to make games for your pretentious market.

I do however pull out my ipod touch every time I see a pretty girl.
"ohhh is thatz az iponez?"
"yes"

 

haha I find it amusing whenever someone thinks an itouch is an iphone.

 

And I say the same for the PC market. What if Blizzard one day said hey we will have a Mac beta first for our new game and the PC beta will have to wait 2 months. I'm sure all the PC people would be so mad. People have the right to ask for a Mac beta whether you like it or not. And Blizzard know it because it's a large number of sales to them.

And in Blizzard's defence they have more OS X support for their games then most other game developers. So all credit to them. Seems you need to take a leaf from Blizzard's book and care about all of your potential customers and not just some of them.

You hate Apple so much but you use an ipod touch. .

 

Here Here! Finally, somebody gets it! And also finally, I have found the one other mac gamer on the planet!

 

I've thought about it very much

 

People have no right to ask for anything from Blizzard. Blizzard decides what they make, not you. Yet, people will have an influence on what kind of profits blizz wants, therefore the mac beta and release for mac as well.

 

Wrong. We have the right to ask for anything we want from Blizzard,
But Blizzard as you can and does only say yes to what they want to say yes to. And in this respect Windows users are no different to Mac users. Both are sorces of revenue for Blizzard.
So you are correct in what you say apart from your first sentence which is total bollocks.

 

This is capitalism. You should always assert your rights as a consumer. When you lose this assertiveness, you get problems such as Activision. People should complain/comment/demand/senddeaththreats all they want.

 

If you ask for Starcraft Ghost will you get it? Probably not. You have no right unless you own blizzard to tell them what to do honestly.

 

I can send death threats to company employees? You sure that isn't illegal in some fashion?

btw, I'm sure SC:Ghost will be created via SC2's third person shooter layout. If not by Blizzard, a group of good map makers will end up making it their life mission to create it. I'm pretty sure they added the third person perspective specifically because many were upset about Ghost's cancellation.

 

People like you are responsible for the sad state of the consumer. You are the customer. You are always right, that's the saying. When something does not meet your expectiations, you demand it be improved. Simple. That's how capitalism works.

 

of course, Blizzard also has the right to refuse a public mac beta, whether you like it or not.

 

But Blizzard did not. Cause they care about their Mac using customers unlike you who do not care about them.

 

Warcarft 3 ran better on my non-intel mac (stopped being manufactured 5 years ago) than it did on my previous pc, so the difference in performance is the specs not the OS.

 

Well with Blizzard software I would agree. Cause they optimise their games individually for WIndows and OS X. So they run just as well on both systems.

But on the whole (ie the non blizzard world) I disagree. Cross/multi platform applications on the whole tend to work better on whatever was the main OS used to create them. And porting to other OS's is most times just a poorly done after thought. And with almost all PC (Apple's are PC's too) using the same classes of hardware, optimising applications for individual OS's is more important than ever.

Blizzard know this. And I think other software devs should wake up and realise this too.

And as an example. I have played WC3 on 333mhz computers before on Macs and windows boxes. I'm sure that's below what is on the WC3 box. And the game worked alright. Not ultra quality but it was very playable. And move on to today and WC3 works just as well on the computer I own now.

And I attribute all of this to Blizzard understanding that optimising their games for both systems is the way to go. And poorly ported things do nothing bar anger potential customers.