The state of the FFXIV Mac version, and our plans for the future. As a result, some customers were able to download and play a pre-release build which suffered from performance problems. We apologize for this oversight. Regarding the temporary suspension of Mac version sales.
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I asked this question a bit ago, but did not buy it. I heard that it had improved quite a bit and is playable, but I honestly cannot justify myself paying $60 for a subpar client of something that I already own.Buying a win 10 license is about $120, so for double the price you can get much better performance with boot camp, as well as play any other game that you want.
I run boot camp on my mac and can play ffxiv quite well on it. Not sure if it would be good enough for raiding, but maybe. It does run quite smoothly for me at least on a 15 in retina macbook pro (with graphics card option) with win 10 boot camp. The mac client is still just a third party wrapper.
While they might have it somewhat ok for now, with major patches or expansion I can see it having many, many more issues than the PC version will have for quite some time. I really wanted the mac client to work, and I really wanted to support it, but for me personally, I just cannot justify the same price gouge for SE essentially reusing the same code for a halfassed port. It is just a really low move to me, especially when blizzard and other companies offer good mac ports for free if you own the base version. I'm running a late 2013 27' iMac with the Nvidia GTX 780M 4gb vram.I was originally running the game in boot camp with good results, but I've been using the mac client exclusively since early December of last year. There is a slight drop in graphics quality (generally details on items is somewhat more pixelated than on the native windows side), but it's not noticeable unless I'm actively looking for it.The slight drop-off in graphics quality is negligible when I factor in being able to multitask and do actual work on the Mac OS while waiting for queues/nodes to pop, and the client itself has been rock solid since I started using it. Hell, even my system fans don't kick in as often as they did when I was boot camping, and yes the machine does seem to run cooler on the Mac side than it did on the Windows side. Whatever Nvidia started doing once they absorbed Transgaming, they need to keep it up - they're on the right track.
Plus I got to reclaim all that storage space on my SSD when I popped my boot camp partition so that's a bonus win too.All that being said, we're comparing my iMac to your MBP and honestly even a normal windows laptop would struggle with just 1gb of Vram which I think is the most limiting factor here. I'm guessing your configuration would probably be acceptable for gathering or crafting in a low-traffic area, but running a dungeon or a decent sized fate would be pushing it. I'd say if you can snag the Mac client on the cheap somewhere if it goes on sale, then go for it since it's for occasional use on the road - but for what you're looking to do and for the machine you're looking to do it with I wouldn't pay full price for it.
I've actually been playing on the Mac client on my late 2012 iMac primarily after boot camping for some time. I tried it when it was first released and was really disappointed.
I gave it another shot last month and have stuck with it since. There are some noticeable quality differences in some places, but for the most part performance has been comparable.For me, it was most worth it to me because I work from OS X and I can be much more productive if I'm not restarting in to boot camp just to play xiv.
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