Xbox & Mac
An official Mac release is planned for later this month – more details to follow.
With all due respect, could you please improve the communication on the mac version of the game a little bit?
The game is currently being sold on Steam at full price for mac and windows without clearly stating that the mac version is still in early access and that the early access saves are not going to be compatible with the full release. I personally learned that the hard way when I heard that the game released and saw it was one of the few games that got a mac version at all and bought it based on the information I saw on the store page on steam.
When trying to figure out when the actual full release on mac might happen, we currently have to dig through every communication channel to find a single line in your discord FAQ that reads "Mac version is targeted for September 6th… mabye… no promises."
After not hearing anything on the subject for over a month, we get an update literally on the day of supposed release that says "We don't know, sometime later this month." and again, only if you know where to even find this information.
I am aware that macs are neither a big nor popular platform when it comes to gaming, but we still paid the full price for the game just like everybody else. All I am asking for in return is clear communication and maybe a status update every one or two weeks. Larian is a decently sized studio with hundreds of employees. You must have a target release date for every platform you are working on, especially this close to release. Why is it so hard to just ask one of the developers working on the mac version what a realistic release date would be and then communicate that to us with a note that there might still be delays depending on how things go until then? Instead we went from simultaneous release for all platforms to rumors about a same day release with the PS5 version to no actual date at all. Communication literally got worse with every update.
It is fine if the mac version still needs more work and will release later.
It is fine if apple is being difficult with the certification process.
It is fine if things change down the line.
About the only thing that isn't fine is hardly communicating at all and keeping us guessing all the time.
If possible, could you please improve on that at least a little in the future even though we are a minority compared to other platforms?
