{"id":343,"date":"2012-01-03T09:33:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T16:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=343"},"modified":"2012-01-03T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T16:33:46","slug":"tor-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"TOR For Mac?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BioWare&#8217;s answer to the &#8216;will TOR be Mac compatible&#8217; has always been a &#8216;not at this time&#8217; or\u00c2\u00a0 &#8216;currently only windows&#8217; type of response.. never totally ruling out a Mac version.\u00c2\u00a0 While technically, the game is playable on my Mac &#8211; I have to reboot into windows to do so, and constantly rebooting is a pain, even for playing TOR.<\/p>\n<p>There appears to be some good news on the Mac version front&#8230; Massively has <a href=\"http:\/\/massively.joystiq.com\/2012\/01\/02\/bioware-mac-version-of-star-wars-the-old-republic-is-something\/\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed<\/a> the BioWare Drs.\u00c2\u00a0 They were specifically asked (again, since I know this question comes up a lot) about a Mac version&#8230;and had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;d say &#8216;not yet,'&#8221; Zeschuk assured me when I told him that, as a BioWare fan, I&#8217;m unable to play <em>The Old Republic<\/em> on my less than two-year-old MacBook. Though Muzyka was quick to remind me that I can <em>technically<\/em> play the game on a Windows partition, he also admitted that it wasn&#8217;t an ideal situation. &#8220;We&#8217;ve done a lot of Mac ports before of our games. We haven&#8217;t announced any details yet for <em>The Old Republic<\/em>, but we know that&#8217;s an important and large audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neither would offer a strict timetable on the Mac version, but Zeschuk did note, &#8220;That&#8217;s definitely one of the things we&#8217;re looking at next. We want to get this launch under our belt and everything stabilized and happy, and then we&#8217;ll look at other platforms, and that&#8217;s obviously one of the first ones.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, hopefully we&#8217;ll hear more about a Mac version this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Ideally, it&#8217;ll be a true native client, NOT a Cider wrapped &#8216;port&#8217;..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BioWare&#8217;s answer to the &#8216;will TOR be Mac compatible&#8217; has always been a &#8216;not at this time&#8217; or\u00c2\u00a0 &#8216;currently only windows&#8217; type of response.. never totally ruling out a Mac <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=343\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BPLE-5x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}