I own an iMac and a PC - I do most of my gaming on my PC, adequate for blizzard stuff with a Ryzen 5 3600, Radeon 5700, and thanks to needing for work stuff, way more RAM than anything in blizzard’s library could ever hope to fully utilize. Moreover, Apple’s marketshare skews more heavily towards developed countries and among individuals with (admittedly too much) disposable income. “Apple just isn’t what they used to be! They’re a dying company going nowhere!”Īpple’s PC space market share is bigger now than it was when blizzard first made Diablo 2, and thanks to Apple’s terrible performance selling to schools and government institutions compared to Google and Microsoft throughout the pandemic, you can reasonably ascertain that their recent growth is almost entirely from the general consumers who, presumably unlike your local elementary school, might actally purchase Diablo games. That to say nothing of the current M1 lineup which grossly outperforms the bog standard 4core i5, GTX 1060 that’s been the median rig for Windows gaming for aeons untold. The longtime most popular consumer Mac is the Macbook Pro, of which every model of the last half-decade has no problem running every game Blizzard has made available to MacOS thus far. “Macs just aren’t powerful enough to play the incredibly demanding games Blizzard is known for!” If it’s profitable for companies 1/100th Blizzard’s size that only ever sell 1/1000th as many copies of their games as Blizzard, then it should be profitable for Blizzard (who already has their own in-house mac team) as well. In the middle market, Mac support is abundant even among smaller studios that make their own game engines, and even among those who cant afford to employ Mac devs full time and so have to reach out to other companies to handle the porting. There’s a meme “To be fair, Blizzard is just a small indie company.” My favorite part about the “not worth it” argument is that it boils down to that meme, but unironically. “Bringing games to Mac just isn’t worth it. Before I begin my little rant here, I’d like to address a few of the main talking points when anything mac-gaming-related is brought up.
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