Mac Version

[LQ!d]

First of all thank you for this great news. For years I was looking forward to a new Settlers game. The disappointment of the development of the new Settlers game was quite high, after Volker Wertich left the team. Now came fortunately the amazing news, that we just have to wait until the end of this year. Even a delay will be ok for me, as it is much better than having the thought that there won't be a new proper Settlers game anymore.

I just hope that there will be a Mac version, as many people use a Mac nowadays. From the M1 processors onwards there should be enough power for a strategy game. Thank you in advance for considering this. Even though it won't be for the Early Access version.

[gaugo]

Yes that would be great...an iPad Version would also be awesome

[jaxom]

+1

[Dirk (EE)]

As much as I hate to say it but as of now we have no plans for a Mac or even an iPad version.

[jaxom]

Originally posted by EE_Dirk:

As much as I hate to say it but as of now we have no plans for a Mac or even an iPad version.

Can you tell why? Too much effort for the possible gains from it?

[Envision Entertainment]

iPad would require a completely different user interface. Also the way people buy games on iPad is different than PC so overall it becomes very complicated very fast.

For Mac it is the effort versus gains as you said it. A native Mac version is a lot of work in itself and Metal works completely different than DirectX12 once you start using advanced features.

To be fair such answers are not for the eternity, but as far we can currently see in the future. Depending on the success of Pioneers of Pagonia and the demand of a Mac version we may revisit our options next year. But for now, we do not work on it.

[jaxom]

Thanks for explaining! So I now will keep my Windows PC only for being able to play this game!

[Glucksbar]

How about making this game playable via Geforce Now? For me, that would solve the problem of not having a Mac version.

[hunttis]

Originally posted by Envision Entertainment:

iPad would require a completely different user interface. Also the way people buy games on iPad is different than PC so overall it becomes very complicated very fast.

For Mac it is the effort versus gains as you said it. A native Mac version is a lot of work in itself and Metal works completely different than DirectX12 once you start using advanced features.

To be fair such answers are not for the eternity, but as far we can currently see in the future. Depending on the success of Pioneers of Pagonia and the demand of a Mac version we may revisit our options next year. But for now, we do not work on it.

Now that Apple released the game porting toolkit in macOS Sonoma and it should do the heavy lifting from DirectX 12 to Metal, any chance you'd reconsider? 😅

[kevinfryer]

Very disappointed to hear there is no Mac version planned as I believe there is a growing number of people using MacOS now. I think you are missing a trick here.

[gegyman]

It‘s so disappointing, that there is no Mac Version. My Mac Mini M2 has the Power to run this game. Im a settler fan starting from settler 1. Today i am a Mac user, and if more developers are doing a port to mac, the mac community is going to grow.
In meantime i habe my focus on mac native games…so no „pioneers“ for me.

[jaxom]

I already tried to run it using CrossOver on my MacBook Air M1 but with no success. Perhaps this will work at some point in the future...

[gegyman]

Have someone tried to run the game with Whisky?
https://getwhisky.app

[leckig]

Amiga 500 version as well please.

[Aron]

Originally posted by kevinfryer:

Very disappointed to hear there is no Mac version planned as I believe there is a growing number of people using MacOS now. I think you are missing a trick here.

very wrong as an developer its not worth it

[Maviba]

Originally posted by leckig:

Amiga 500 version as well please.

I prefer an AGA version.