Guild Wars 2

This was then reply when I questioned if they can make us a native client.. Confused face…

where does the link point? To this forum?

I would assume that the person that replied did not understand the “native” part.

You need to reply and tell them to look up what a native port is. That twitter handler is dead wrong.

Yea I saw this to. My first response was wtf. They must not know what native was.

Yeah, I don’t think he knew what you meant by native client. lol

Yeah I thought that too but didn’t actually want to believe that they wouldn’t know what one was. Really restores faith……….

As you can see I did reply but must have stumped their vast intelligence on the matter. What a feat!!

Firstly, it’s Twitter. You were expecting great things to come out of it?

Secondly, you’re missing their joke. You suggested that a “native” Mac client would make thousands of users happy. Arena Net answered, “They already are”, meaning that thousands of Mac people “already are” happy with the current software.

It’s not you who stumped their “vast intelligence.” It’s they who stumped you.

Tip: Get off of Twitter. It’s bad for your language skills.

It’s a joke, saying they ‘already are’ linking to a forum with hundreds if people complaining about the client? Makes sense. Never did I once say I expected great things, I understand twitter and its concept, and, my language skills are fine, considering I’m an English major.

TIP: Stop trying to be clever fanboy.

Todd.8162:

Firstly, it’s Twitter. You were expecting great things to come out of it?

Secondly, you’re missing their joke. You suggested that a “native” Mac client would make thousands of users happy. Arena Net answered, “They already are”, meaning that thousands of Mac people “already are” happy with the current software.

It’s not you who stumped their “vast intelligence.” It’s they who stumped you.

Tip: Get off of Twitter. It’s bad for your language skills.

Um, no. Just no. Next time you try to wind up a stinger like that, stop, and ask yourself if you’ve taken the original point too far out of context.

I’m not even sure if it’s worth explaining to you why you’re wrong after that post.

One could interpret a “native Mac application” as something that runs on OSX, rather than requiring bootcamp or a virtual machine running windows.

When i had my iMac I was playing on bootcamp all the time… there is virtually no game that will run better on MAC so why bother….

I know buy a mac to run Windows make no sense…that’s why i sold it!

PJivan.3492:

When i had my iMac I was playing on bootcamp all the time… there is virtually no game that will run better on MAC so why bother….

I know buy a mac to run Windows make no sense…that’s why i sold it!

Do you know what MMO runs way better than any other MMO on a mac?

WoW.

Why?

BECAUSE IT HAS A NATIVE CLIENT.

Todd.8162:

Firstly, it’s Twitter. You were expecting great things to come out of it?

Secondly, you’re missing their joke. You suggested that a “native” Mac client would make thousands of users happy. Arena Net answered, “They already are”, meaning that thousands of Mac people “already are” happy with the current software.

It’s not you who stumped their “vast intelligence.” It’s they who stumped you.

Tip: Get off of Twitter. It’s bad for your language skills.

well, here is why your argument is in valid. number one, we aren’t happy because obviously its not anywhere near native, SO IT RUNS LIKE kitten! two, i don’t think he stumped anybody but a twitter troll. Because it looks like he doesn’t know what Native actually means. and coming from a Dev, well that’s simply idiotic.

So basically, he either knows what the native client is, and is slapping us in the kittening face because they know its not working, so therefore, NOT ALREADY HAPPY users. OR, he indeed, has no idea what ‘native client’ actually is. so, in either cause, he’s either a kittening kitten, or a kittening idiot. in either case, its frustrating, disappointing, and many other words that it wouldn’t let me put here without them being turned into the word ‘kitten’

vince.5937:

PJivan.3492:

When i had my iMac I was playing on bootcamp all the time… there is virtually no game that will run better on MAC so why bother….

I know buy a mac to run Windows make no sense…that’s why i sold it!

Do you know what MMO runs way better than any other MMO on a mac?

WoW.

Why?

BECAUSE IT HAS A NATIVE CLIENT.

EXACLTY, so if the dumb kittening idiots at blizzard can do it and still manage to kitten over the entire gaming base for WoW. Then THE kitten can ANet do it for use and GW2? i call bullkitten.

Todd.8162:

Firstly, it’s Twitter. You were expecting great things to come out of it?

Secondly, you’re missing their joke. You suggested that a “native” Mac client would make thousands of users happy. Arena Net answered, “They already are”, meaning that thousands of Mac people “already are” happy with the current software.

It’s not you who stumped their “vast intelligence.” It’s they who stumped you.

Tip: Get off of Twitter. It’s bad for your language skills.

ProTip: Facebook is worse. And twitter only shows who you follow. Maybe you should try it… because facebook is the most idiotic thing on the internet

Hollow.9758:

EXACLTY, so if the dumb kittening idiots at blizzard can do it and still manage to kitten over the entire gaming base for WoW. Then THE kitten can ANet do it for use and GW2? i call bullkitten.

Funny enough, the native Mac client of WoW has pretty much the same performance penalty like GW2’s Cider client (well, it did when I last used it). And I recently tried Lotro’s native client and was rather underwhelmed by the significant performance problems it had.

well what ever worthless maintenance they did just made my game kitten unplayable. I don’t give a kitten what the problem is or isn’t at this point, I don’t even what to hear an excuse. I want it fixed and i want it FIXED NOW! I’m am so kitten sick of expecting people to do what they are paid for and then get NOTHING. I feel as if i’ve been slapped in the face, ‘you paid for the game, but IT DOESN’T MATTER! only the ones who bought it for PC MATTER you fool’ I feel like they are trolling me now.

Naqaj.6219:

Hollow.9758:

EXACLTY, so if the dumb kittening idiots at blizzard can do it and still manage to kitten over the entire gaming base for WoW. Then THE kitten can ANet do it for use and GW2? i call bullkitten.

Funny enough, the native Mac client of WoW has pretty much the same performance penalty like GW2’s Cider client (well, it did when I last used it). And I recently tried Lotro’s native client and was rather underwhelmed by the significant performance problems it had.

i believe wow had a opengl renderer.

In reality, the client does not have to be native to get near windows performance on the mac. It just need a native opengl boost which has a huge performance boost in comparison to using mac os library calls

By “I think they are” he is referring to people being extremely happy/truly grateful… =\

loseridoit.2756:

Naqaj.6219:

Hollow.9758:

EXACLTY, so if the dumb kittening idiots at blizzard can do it and still manage to kitten over the entire gaming base for WoW. Then THE kitten can ANet do it for use and GW2? i call bullkitten.

Funny enough, the native Mac client of WoW has pretty much the same performance penalty like GW2’s Cider client (well, it did when I last used it). And I recently tried Lotro’s native client and was rather underwhelmed by the significant performance problems it had.

i believe wow had a opengl renderer.

In reality, the client does not have to be native to get near windows performance on the mac. It just need a native opengl boost which has a huge performance boost in comparison to using mac os library calls

Yeah, Blizzard game engines have always had the option to use OpenGL. This made their mac ports much easier and what allows them to release every game simultaneously. WoW for Mac is pretty good. It even had some features first. Difference is that ANet isn’t as big as Blizzard and they didn’t make the same design decisions as Blizzard. This means they can’t just pump out a native mac client on a whim. WoW running on Mac was due to design decisions when they were making Warcraft III. I don’t blame ANet for not having the money to focus on Mac back when GW2 was starting development because frankly the Mac wasn’t a good market to be going after at the time (not nearly as popular with young people…remember everyone in universities used to be using Dells).