[bookofjames]

Hi All,

I'm currently playing NWN now, and I've been tempted by my frens who have been addicted to UO. Tried looking for a Mac version, but it seems that EA games is boycotting the mac platform altogether. How sad is that?

Any way we can write in to EA and petition for a mac version of UO? I think if they see the demand, they may do something about it...

[fiesta cat]

I've played UO for just under 7 years. Every year or so I start a post wherever the EA/used-to-be OSI employes, congregate and "officially" respond to players.

The answer has always been no. They do not consider the Mac crowd, for UO specifically, to be large enough to sustain the costs.

Needless to say, the 2D client will still run fairly well under VPC, and under Linux, it runes well through WINE (and this is through all iterations of UO).

3D Client, no way in hell it will decently under anything.

If EA won't port most of their biggest selling games to the Mac, there is no way they will ever port UO.

[Ryan Becker]

Medal Of Honor is an EA game, and it's on the Mac...

And, those online Petitions.... show me one example of where one of those has ever changed a company's mind!

-Ryan

[Forte]

And, those online Petitions.... show me one example of where one of those has ever changed a company's mind!

If you mean any company at all, then this petition - http://www.petitiononline.com/MegaRock/petition.html - convinced Capcom to grant the license to Viz to translate and sell the Rockman.EXE manga series in English (as 'MegaMan NT Warrior'). ;P

If you mean convincing a game company to change it's mind about a game release rather than a manga spin-off, though, I can't bring any to mind at this moment.

[bookofjames]

Originally posted by fiesta cat:
I've played UO for just under 7 years. Every year or so I start a post wherever the EA/used-to-be OSI employes, congregate and "officially" respond to players.

The answer has always been no. They do not consider the Mac crowd, for UO specifically, to be large enough to sustain the costs.

Needless to say, the 2D client will still run fairly well under VPC, and under Linux, it runes well through WINE (and this is through all iterations of UO).

3D Client, no way in hell it will decently under anything.

If EA won't port most of their biggest selling games to the Mac, there is no way they will ever port UO.

that's really too bad.

2D is just not appealing to me after I've been spoilt by NWN.
oh well...

[Ryan Becker]

Originally posted by Forte:
If you mean any company at all, then this petition - http://www.petitiononline.com/MegaRock/petition.html - convinced Capcom to grant the license to Viz to translate and sell the Rockman.EXE manga series in English (as 'MegaMan NT Warrior'). ;P

If you mean convincing a game company to change it's mind about a game release rather than a manga spin-off, though, I can't bring any to mind at this moment.

Heh, that works for me! I honestly had never heard of any sort of positive impact those petitions have made on any company, period. I've always just looked at them as a way to be active in something in order to please your own needs.

Thanks though, it's good to know that at least one petition got results!

-Ryan