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Zeldithin
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Good mmorpgs- free or beta- for Mac OS X
i have already tried the following so please don't post them
WOW
MOM
Everquest
everquest 2
vendetta
maplestory
second life
lineage
lineage2
wwII
eve online
Anarchy online
ALSO PLEASE DON'T TELL ME TO RUN PC ON MAC OR GET A PC I KNOW----I NEED A MAC FOR SCHOOL-I MAKE MOVIES SO LEAVE ME ALONE-
i just want some good free/shareware/beta mmorpgs or just download rpgs to play in my free time
don't turn this thread into a discusion about mac VS PC
i have already tried the following so please don't post them
WOW
MOM
Everquest
everquest 2
vendetta
maplestory
second life
lineage
lineage2
wwII
eve online
Anarchy online
ALSO PLEASE DON'T TELL ME TO RUN PC ON MAC OR GET A PC I KNOW----I NEED A MAC FOR SCHOOL-I MAKE MOVIES SO LEAVE ME ALONE-
i just want some good free/shareware/beta mmorpgs or just download rpgs to play in my free time
don't turn this thread into a discusion about mac VS PC
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You realize you can now boot Windows on Mac hardware - bootcamp. Since you can get OEM XP for as little as $90 I think your best bet for gaming on a Mac is clearly going to be getting a copy of XP and have at it.
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Googled this one out for ya. Though I can't guarantee the status of some of the titles on that list.
well said
PROTIP: You can't play games on a Mac, it's for people who want to keep nude pics and stuff in good electronic order.
Last i checked Windows was better for video editing, why do you use Mac?
I already answered that question... for porn OFC
When did that happen?
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners." - Thomas B. Macaulay
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
As a Mac user I'd help you... but I don't help freeloaders who want to play crappy Korean MFC application games.
I congratulate you for getting a real computer, but shun you for falling into the freeloader standpoint. I wish you luck on your endevour.
- CaesarsGhost
Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
"When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."
looks like we have the same problem, i refuse using ANYTHING made by microsoft
sure, it has some downsides, like games etc. but i could be wrong but i thought mac os x had something called virtual pc or something, which you should be able to use to run windows programs, but it probably wont support directX/3D, but actually, you can play any game, could take a while... i'm trying to get GW running on linux using wine ^^ too bad GW doesn't even recognize openGL with wine, BUT i think i found something for you, it costs some money, but it should have a 'fake' directX, http://www.transgaming.com/products/cider/ it's possible that they didn't release it yet, but the linux version (cedega) is known to emulate most games, i'd say good luck, the only reason why people still use windows is because microsoft is keeping their codes to themselves, so don't blame me when cider doesn't work that good 
You know it, the best way to realize your dreams is waking up and start moving, never lose hope and always keep up.
And Apple doesn't? Heck, if this is your reason to hate MS then how can you keep from going all out on Apple as they are by far more restrictive and more limiting with their PCs/OS. It is also worth pointing out the ridiculous hypocrasy of flaming MS for keeping thier code to themselves (something every smart company does with things their livelihood depends on) while the games you want to play do the same thing. Sure, every once in a while a 5 or 6 year old game releases thier source code but otherwise they hold it tight and sell rights to use it just like all software companies do.
If you want to game on a PC you got one choice - Windows, the emulators for Linux suck when they do work and most of the time they don't work. MS may not be a company worth celebrating but the reality is that $100 for XP when a game costs $60 is more than reasonable. And before you go off to flame away at MS again consider that if it where not for MS and Windows computers would not be the pervasive home essentials they are today which is the reason that we have had so much rapid advancement in hardware and software. MS has its issue for sure, but they made the PC a household item and broadened gaming on PCs and computing in general to a point that all sorts of things are possible - internet, 8800s, quad cores, and so on and so on.
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You called a Mac for a computer, you fail in life.
Futilez - Mature MMORPG Community
Correcting people since birth.
You called a Mac for a computer, you fail in life.
John Carmack likes Apple products, so does Will Wright... know who they are?I Develop for Mac. They Develop for Mac. NCSoft's engine they have in development is for all platforms, including Linux.
Do you develop only for Windows? Do you develop at all?
A well designed and built game will run on all platforms. Blizzard understands that, so do all the companies with titles coming out the future. To ignore upcoming trends you'd be completely stupid. Macs are selling more and more each day, if you're ignoring that upcoming trend you're going to cut yourself out of a market where you could potentially make alot of money.
So, what would you call a Mac?
- CaesarsGhost
Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
"When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."
You can bet your bottom dollar that while ID and others may develop for Linux and Mac in addition to Windows that unless they are stupid they know damn well that their chance for commercial viability comes from Windows, period. I applaud them for adding support for alternative operating systems and I am not saying it does add icing to the sales cake - but it is just outright foolishness to not acknowledge the place Windows has earned as the platform for gaming.
Personally, I would love for OpenGL 2.0 and engines like ID Tech 5 to get some traction but historically it just hasn't worked out that way. Linux in particular would be my first choice as an OS if it weren't for the lack of standards and convention that exists in that open source environment. Apple on the other hand, is so closed, so proprietary, so confining that I would just assume never use a computer rather than have to use a MAC unless it was essential to the task (I.E. the still slight edge in some high end multimedia creation/editing applications Macs have). What do I mean by this? Well, consider that until recently (earlier this year) not only could you not build your own Mac (still cannot do) or even upgrade your own Mac (still cannot do) you couldn't even install another operating system on it while Windows has allways left hardware to users or OEMs and has no technologies to prevent installing other operating systems.
Windows gets allot of heat being so successful but the reality is that all things considered it is pretty good for consumers that Windows won out way back when over Apple lest all computers today would be pretty white pieces of well designed deskart with acrylic trim and a $5000 price tag - not to mention that had Apple won thier restrictive and proprietary control tenancies over hardware and software would have NEVER allowed the massive explosion of PCs into nearly every household and desk in the world.
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macs are better for anything having to do with media- movies, editing, photo work, sound, digital media.
movies like Lord of the rings, Narnia, Rush Hour 3, the bourn ultimatium, spiderman 3, and pirates of the carribian 3 were edited on final cut pro using a mac.
the pc is now mainly used for-word proccessing, corperations, gaming, and taxes
you can't beat a pc for gaming but the mac is number one in graphics and they now take up 37% of all the computors in the USA
and the reason pc's are cheap is because theyre made of shity plastic and aluminum parts-macs are made from polifibers,steal, titanium, and carbon fibers
Like many have said, get Xp.
And why do people continue to argue about MACs vs. PCs. They're pretty much the same thing, they just run off of different OS. it should be "Mac OS vs. Windows."
PCs are still used in film. BOXX Tech. Run all their machines on Microsoft Software. And if your not in film, BOXX Tech. is a pretty large company.
Does anyone know why MACs are supposed to be so much better then PCs in graphics? Honestly PCs have come a long way and most graphics software you can get for MACs you can get for PCs now. I don't really see the point in MACs anymore other then if you really hate Microsoft for some reason. Personally I think they make the best OS at the moment. The difference is that more people hate Microsoft so they are alway trying to find exploits in their OS.
I'll take a stab at answering that.
Although I use primarily Windows-driven PCs, my experience with the Apple OSX is that its design is much cleaner and more streamlined than Windows. What I mean by that is, because the Apple OSX is designed for known hardware, the OS is designed to work specifically with that hardware. When you purchase a Mac, you are getting the hardware and the OS designed to support that hardware.
Because Windows supports a much more diverse arena of hardware (or tries to), they have a tendency to include just about every driver and DLL necessary to support the vast majority of the most popular hardware. This, combined with many other largely useless gee-gaws they incorporate leads to a lot of OS bloat. There are services in Windows that simply do not need to be started or run for any reason on many systems, but they are on in case of the off chance that you may need them.
So for many applications that are very CPU and RAM intensive, the Mac/Apple OSX is actually the better choice because it isn't running a billion background applications and services that may be completely unnecessary.
At this point, Windows has actually taken an even worse step with Vista. The OS is seriously bloated and for non-superusers, they can't understand why applications and games that used to run well on XP encounter memory and driver errors with Vista, so they can't even begin to be able to correct the issues.
So while I'm not in the "Mac love" camp, I can certainly appreciate how much cleaner operating systems like Apple's OSX, Linux or Ubuntu is very appealing. I mean, you can run Ubuntu from a CD! The whole operating system!
If anything, Microsoft needs to take a step back and scale down Windows to provide the user with the basic operating system and OS-specific enhancements and create a web portal for downloading and installing drivers that support a user's hardware during installation. That way, the user gets the OS and only the drivers and services they need, rather than all of it at once.
It would also allow them to concentrate on the visual areas where they are constantly taking a backseat to Apple and applications like Beryl.
Abbatoir / Abbatoir Cinq
Adnihilo
Beorn Judge's Edge
Somnulus
Perfect Black
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Asheron's Call / Asheron's Call 2
Everquest / Everquest 2
Anarchy Online
Shadowbane
Dark Age of Camelot
Star Wars Galaxies
Matrix Online
World of Warcraft
Guild Wars
City of Heroes
I'll take a stab at answering that.
Although I use primarily Windows-driven PCs, my experience with the Apple OSX is that its design is much cleaner and more streamlined than Windows. What I mean by that is, because the Apple OSX is designed for known hardware, the OS is designed to work specifically with that hardware. When you purchase a Mac, you are getting the hardware and the OS designed to support that hardware.
Because Windows supports a much more diverse arena of hardware (or tries to), they have a tendency to include just about every driver and DLL necessary to support the vast majority of the most popular hardware. This, combined with many other largely useless gee-gaws they incorporate leads to a lot of OS bloat. There are services in Windows that simply do not need to be started or run for any reason on many systems, but they are on in case of the off chance that you may need them.
So for many applications that are very CPU and RAM intensive, the Mac/Apple OSX is actually the better choice because it isn't running a billion background applications and services that may be completely unnecessary.
At this point, Windows has actually taken an even worse step with Vista. The OS is seriously bloated and for non-superusers, they can't understand why applications and games that used to run well on XP encounter memory and driver errors with Vista, so they can't even begin to be able to correct the issues.
So while I'm not in the "Mac love" camp, I can certainly appreciate how much cleaner operating systems like Apple's OSX, Linux or Ubuntu is very appealing. I mean, you can run Ubuntu from a CD! The whole operating system!
If anything, Microsoft needs to take a step back and scale down Windows to provide the user with the basic operating system and OS-specific enhancements and create a web portal for downloading and installing drivers that support a user's hardware during installation. That way, the user gets the OS and only the drivers and services they need, rather than all of it at once.
It would also allow them to concentrate on the visual areas where they are constantly taking a backseat to Apple and applications like Beryl.
Thanks for the reply. Thats good to know though I haven't had many problems with Vista so far. Having processes running in the backround should only be a problem if you don't have a lot of memory and memory is pretty cheap now. I haven't encountered any driver errors so far, but perhaps thats because I don't use any apple software. We have some MACs at work and no one in our IT department knows much about or likes to work with them. From what my boss says though it's a pain to install and upgrade software. When you upgrade previous versions of the software are still installed on the computer and it causes problems apparently. They seem to just be a nuisance to me.
You could using Parallels if you don't want the hassle of rebooting very time you want run Windows. I think it supports 3D acceleration now.
oberin,eternal lands,runescape.....nice attitude by the way
You called a Mac for a computer, you fail in life.
John Carmack likes Apple products, so does Will Wright... know who they are?
I Develop for Mac. They Develop for Mac. NCSoft's engine they have in development is for all platforms, including Linux.
Do you develop only for Windows? Do you develop at all?
A well designed and built game will run on all platforms. Blizzard understands that, so do all the companies with titles coming out the future. To ignore upcoming trends you'd be completely stupid. Macs are selling more and more each day, if you're ignoring that upcoming trend you're going to cut yourself out of a market where you could potentially make alot of money.
So, what would you call a Mac?
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
Nuff said
Futilez - Mature MMORPG Community
Correcting people since birth.
We all want something. Make do with what you have. If you don't want to install a copy of windows, then that is up to you, and you'll have to suffer. At least until developers start paying attention to Mac users.
Mac is a computer since they COMPUTE things you input.
All canceled. Waiting on Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning.
Get CrossOver, mess a bit around with it, get most things to work, and dont yell if you wont find any f2ps for mac yet,
those arent aimimg for mac Users
Macs aren't better, they just have the rep, and just like most BS that flows through forums like these people love to cling on to it and treat it like it's true.
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