Guild Wars 2

epborden.7492:

CrossOver works just fine. I got CrossOver and setup Guild Wars 2 through it using this page here: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=7951;tips=1

I’d say it runs similar to the Mac Beta, and the TP works, so there’s that. It’s good temporary solution. I’ve had it crash once and sometimes the performance isn’t as smooth as the beta client, but it works.

Could you please tell us how to do it, I’ve never used that before, and based on last’s Danicia respond, this is gonna take a long time. Please help us!!

Alex DeLarge.4957:

darksome.1697:

Xelim.3984:

It’s still April 11th. I’m sorry you live in the Europe, but this game runs on West Coast time. It’s annoying for me as well; honestly I wish they would run on GMT, because the resets are on GMT, but sadly they don’t. Of course the PC gets a fix quicker; there’s way more PC players and PC actually has a native client. I feel like none of you are thinking about the time zones before you post. It was one thing when no one was answering us earlier this week, but now they finally are and have said they are working on it.

It’s almost heartbreaking to see the length people go to defend a company, even now when it’s not “morning April 11th” anywhere on this planet. Wait.. they didn’t say earth time did they? Hmm.

IKR! What’s with the “teacher’s pet” angle?

Anet undercover maybe? I find it hard to stomach as well especially as a customer is always entitled to complain and in this case more than justified to. Furthermore I’m sure the company has a competent legal team to defend them anyway so avid defenders of them here need not waste cyberspace as it doesn’t benefit the community in any way. Venting out frustrations in a forum hasn’t fixed the issue either but again that’s within our rights particularly when there is a fault with the product. I do hope the patch comes out before this update, which I also am part dreading as no major update has been seamless (in most mmorpgs come to think of it) but at the very least at least we have been told they have a new build, did they forget to upload it I wonder… Silly commercial choice as the weekends are prime time for sales.

Will check back later of course, in the meantime nice to get to know more of the mac community, albeit not under the happiest circumstances.

Thanks for the update, I’m afraid this makes me even more cross, as this issue has persisted over half a week now it’s fair to give us some compensation. I won’t quit if the people in charge choose not to however for sure it will tarnish this game’s reputation. Been meaning to ditch mmorpgs for a while now at least for a long time, I did for most of 2012, for sure is a plus with offline content that won’t ever let you down the way online stuff may.

So I can easily decide to quit gw2 now. thank you for nice service.

I just bought this game one and a half weeks ago, already unable to use one of the core features. for what most likely will be more then a week. If the “Mac Developer Team” (Which I pressume are one or two guys maintaining the cider port parttime) is even able to fix it in time. Just great.

While I understand that this is most likely a difficult issue to resolve I’m kind of stuck now where I can’t really play. My main’s bags are full of stuff I won’t salvage or sell at vendor cost because I’ll take a loss. I’m in the middle of crafting some items I need mats for and can’t buy. I’m stuck playing alts I guess but even then their bags will fill as well. The seriousness of this bug is bigger than I think some people think because of the limitations it puts on what we can do as far as inventory management and being able to profit from loot.

I just hope that it gets fixed soon. I’ll take this time to catch up on some books I’ve been meaning to read.

Guess you can just make extra guilds though many items are account bound so it’s a temporary solution as well…. Good idea Trogdor, take this time to catch up with non computer related stuff, better to make use of this downtime than having more disappointments, what a week….

They need a better tp system for sure, the Black Lion trading company or in this case Evon Gnashblade as his company is wrecked right now should operate as a fixed post that doesn’t require whatever nonsense the tp needs (which has severe stability issues as long as I played it, best case was how on GW2’s 1st birthday it went down for maintenance!) That way it will cut down on the volume of trading down all over Tyria and I assume there’s benefits to a fixed tp location as other mmorpgs I played only allow network trading from towns and their stability was 100% in my time there.

I love being able to use a tp on the fly for sure but man we’ve been suffering with a weak tp for a while now is frustrating even before this recent problem, as China’s set to join this game very soon and multiply the game’s community size Anet you have a lot of improvements to make if you want to win over the world’s largest country in populace, pretty sure a lot of them are mac users as well.

I can’t help but wonder how many people here are in guilds, and have friends. Friends with PCs who you can bicker with in Whisper while they buy/sell things for you.

Not optimal, but it works. And we get to bicker about prices and stuff.

you know, if the merchants paid better i wouldn’t care so much…

I could get friends to be my trader but is a nuisance on both sides, I’d want to know the prices of the items etc wouldn’t just be buy and sell this…. A temporary solution would be if Anet gave mac users an unlimited storage box at least till the fix is done, that will self delete a while after login, the grace period should be reasonable, not 5mins!

Perhaps I’m too untrusting I don’t even mail things to friends when I am short of bag space. Just to add one alternative to keep playing GW2 without worrying about the tp is PVP, you get very few items there and most of which can’t be traded! PVP does get boring after a few games though I only do them for achievements as their dailies are quick and easy.

Tarnus.8917:

MageIanBorthwick.3054:

Alex DeLarge.4957:

They should make a real Mac version or this sort of thing will happen again.

Quoted for Truth.

I doubt this is ever going to happen. Pretty sure the only reason we got a Mac Client in the first place was that the only additional cost would be the cider licensing and the occasional developer time if something breaks (as in this situation). Unless they believe that a real Mac Port would get them a whole lot of new customers, I just don’t see it.

Edit: This is all OT though.

Seeing it or not, it’s something we’re allowed to ask for, we should expect, and would find foolish not to clamor for. The way it was presented was that the game was native for mac in all the ways they tried to attract us to the game. It was a lie of omission and one they alone can put right. It’s a matter of supply and demand. We DEMAND they SUPPLY us with a Native Mac Client.

MageIanBorthwick.3054:

Tarnus.8917:

MageIanBorthwick.3054:

Alex DeLarge.4957:

They should make a real Mac version or this sort of thing will happen again.

Quoted for Truth.

I doubt this is ever going to happen. Pretty sure the only reason we got a Mac Client in the first place was that the only additional cost would be the cider licensing and the occasional developer time if something breaks (as in this situation). Unless they believe that a real Mac Port would get them a whole lot of new customers, I just don’t see it.

Edit: This is all OT though.

Seeing it or not, it’s something we’re allowed to ask for, we should expect, and would find foolish not to clamor for. The way it was presented was that the game was native for mac in all the ways they tried to attract us to the game. It was a lie of omission and one they alone can put right. It’s a matter of supply and demand. We DEMAND they SUPPLY us with a Native Mac Client.

At no extra cost seeing as we already paid to access the game!

MageIanBorthwick.3054:

The way it was presented was that the game was native for mac in all the ways they tried to attract us to the game.

I’m not the biggest fan of how ANet has handled the Mac client but to be fair they don’t advert it as a native client. Google Guild Wars 2 for Mac (this was the first page I found when I was looking at buying GW2) and you get this page:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-2-for-mac-beta/

To bring Guild Wars 2 to the Mac, ArenaNet worked with our partners at TransGaming, whose Cider technology allows us to mirror the game experience as closely as possible between the PC and Mac. This means that future updates to Guild Wars 2 will be available for both platforms simultaneously.

Certainly there are other statements on that page I find misleading as far as Anet’s enthusiasm for the Mac client but it is clearly stated it is run through Cider.

CC Danicia.1394:

Got a note back from the team. The fix hasn’t resolved the issue, so we’re still working on getting it working. As soon as we know more, we’ll update.

Ah, typical Anet. Prehaps running GW2 via crossover is the right way to go…

CC Danicia.1394:

MageIanBorthwick.3054:

CC Danicia.1394:

Hello all,

I talked to the Mac team this morning. A fix for the most recent TP issue is going in today. Regarding the on-going issues in this thread, they tell me that it it actually spans across more than the Mac client. And they’ll have more information on those fixes later.

This sounds an awful lot like:

“This is only being addressed because it affects the NON-Mac community”

The one issue is very specific to you. The ongoing ones are not. Hope that helps clarify.

What this means is that their fix to their CDN for the heartbleed vulnerability – new certificates etc took out the Mac client which needs to be recompiled to support such (the Windows client presumably managed to cope on the fly). That’s our ‘specific issue’. The ‘ongoing ones’ are that heartbleed has potentially exposed all our usernames and passwords (regardless of client) to hackers and hence the recent frantic account security posts here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Account-Security-What-you-need-to-know/first#post3884150

God Of Mustard.6354:

CC Danicia.1394:

Got a note back from the team. The fix hasn’t resolved the issue, so we’re still working on getting it working. As soon as we know more, we’ll update.

Ah, typical Anet. Prehaps running GW2 via crossover is the right way to go…

Let’s give CC Danicia a break. At least CC has taken some time to post here. I don’t think CC has ultimate control over what happens with the Mac client and is just trying to be here as a voice for Mac customers. It is better than what we used to have which was close to nothing heard ever from Anet. So I’m glad CC is here even if we still don’t have a fix.

AHHH love these forums……..1 comment of actual hope, 30 comments of blaspheme about Anet……. i’m just happy they didn’t ignore us

JustTrogdor.7892:

God Of Mustard.6354:

CC Danicia.1394:

Got a note back from the team. The fix hasn’t resolved the issue, so we’re still working on getting it working. As soon as we know more, we’ll update.

Ah, typical Anet. Prehaps running GW2 via crossover is the right way to go…

Let’s give CC Danicia a break. At least CC has taken some time to post here. I don’t think CC has ultimate control over what happens with the Mac client and is just trying to be here as a voice for Mac customers. It is better than what we used to have which was close to nothing heard ever from Anet. So I’m glad CC is here even if we still don’t have a fix.

No never once did I take it out on them, sure is a hard job bringing bad news but someone’s got to do it sadly. What would be nice if we can directly talk to support in game, at least we’d get some feedback quicker.

Don’t know what you’re talking about recent user there’s been plenty of constructive messages here, if this issue had affected most windows users I very much doubt their posts would be very professional

POW.3158:

AHHH love these forums……..1 comment of actual hope, 30 comments of blaspheme about Anet……. i’m just happy they didn’t ignore us

Danicia sitting at the desk like +1 hour for every negative comment they say

Yifang.8260:

JustTrogdor.7892:

God Of Mustard.6354:

CC Danicia.1394:

Got a note back from the team. The fix hasn’t resolved the issue, so we’re still working on getting it working. As soon as we know more, we’ll update.

Ah, typical Anet. Prehaps running GW2 via crossover is the right way to go…

Let’s give CC Danicia a break. At least CC has taken some time to post here. I don’t think CC has ultimate control over what happens with the Mac client and is just trying to be here as a voice for Mac customers. It is better than what we used to have which was close to nothing heard ever from Anet. So I’m glad CC is here even if we still don’t have a fix.

No never once did I take it out on them, sure is a hard job bringing bad news but someone’s got to do it sadly. What would be nice if we can directly talk to support in game, at least we’d get some feedback quicker.

Don’t know what you’re talking about recent user there’s been plenty of constructive messages here, if this issue had affected most windows users I very much doubt their posts would be very professional

What I wasn’t even quoting you? As far as, “sure is a hard job bringing bad news but someone’s got to do it sadly.” I don’t know if you have been around this forum as long as I have but having any news, good or bad, is fairly new over the last few months. We spent a long time completely in the dark. Here is an example:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/mac/WARNING-Mac-forums-no-longer-supported-byAnet/first

JustTrogdor.7892:

Yifang.8260:

JustTrogdor.7892:

God Of Mustard.6354:

CC Danicia.1394:

Got a note back from the team. The fix hasn’t resolved the issue, so we’re still working on getting it working. As soon as we know more, we’ll update.

Ah, typical Anet. Prehaps running GW2 via crossover is the right way to go…

Let’s give CC Danicia a break. At least CC has taken some time to post here. I don’t think CC has ultimate control over what happens with the Mac client and is just trying to be here as a voice for Mac customers. It is better than what we used to have which was close to nothing heard ever from Anet. So I’m glad CC is here even if we still don’t have a fix.

No never once did I take it out on them, sure is a hard job bringing bad news but someone’s got to do it sadly. What would be nice if we can directly talk to support in game, at least we’d get some feedback quicker.

Don’t know what you’re talking about recent user there’s been plenty of constructive messages here, if this issue had affected most windows users I very much doubt their posts would be very professional

What I wasn’t even quoting you? As far as, “sure is a hard job bringing bad news but someone’s got to do it sadly.” I don’t know if you have been around this forum as long as I have but having any news, good or bad, is fairly new over the last few months. We spent a long time completely in the dark. Here is an example:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/mac/WARNING-Mac-forums-no-longer-supported-byAnet/first

Didn’t say you were singling me out, was just saying I never raged at the CC and yeah I have some idea. I did read that thread actually, I luckily had little reason ever to come on the forums before Scarlet Briar, when she came a pile of bugs came with it though not mac exclusive ones. Methinks someone’s frustrated with the downtime on tp and is lurking on the forums to pass time hehe. Gone are the days when my beta client was running more smoothly than my friends on windows, perhaps cos they use inferior Operating Systems ^^

Yifang.8260:

Methinks someone’s frustrated with the downtime on tp and is lurking on the forums to pass time hehe.

You and me both I guess. Maybe I should post my recommended reading list for the weekend. May I suggest , “A Year in Provence” by Peter Mayle. It is a great read about a Brit that moves to Lubéron, France to live life in southern France. It is witty, fun and entertaining. When I was stationed in Germany my girlfriend and I took a trip to southern France and went to some of the places he described in his book. It was great fun. Or if you want something a little more gritty read “Less Than Zero” by Brett Easton Ellis. An interesting look into 1980’s lost generation casual nihilism. Or watch the movie but it isn’t as good. Happy reading.

Anyone tried GW2 with PlayOnMac or WineBottler? Would be nice to know if this issue is only unique to cider.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Yifang.8260:

Methinks someone’s frustrated with the downtime on tp and is lurking on the forums to pass time hehe.

You and me both I guess. Maybe I should post my recommended reading list for the weekend. May I suggest , “A Year in Provence” by Peter Mayle. It is a great read about a Brit that moves to Lubéron, France to live life in southern France. It is witty, fun and entertaining. When I was stationed in Germany my girlfriend and I took a trip to southern France and went to some of the places he described in his book. It was great fun. Or if you want something a little more gritty read “Less Than Zero” by Brett Easton Ellis. An interesting look into 1980’s lost generation casual nihilism. Or watch the movie but it isn’t as good. Happy reading.

I been france many times never more than for a week, I happen to be a Brit myself, France isn’t a place I plan to live… I have various books ranging from dinosaur books to fiction, I met my favourite author Raymond. E. Feist in 2006! Pity his stories haven’t had the mmorpg treatment (or tv and movies, it would dismantle Game of Thrones and Tolkien) sure I’d tag along! Off to play another game that never gets out of beta, this one’s a 3yr beta! We had various 0.9s and was logical to assume version 1 was coming but nope they made versions 0.10s grrr

Honestly if you guys want to leave the game it affects no one. Me personally, it was my birthday April 11th and was quite excited about a fix for the trading company bug on said day. However, I am also a Computer Science major, and I understand the difficulties in bug tracking. You can’t expect them to just fix problems. It’s called support because they are trying to help, they aren’t called fixers. Give them time and a fix will come. I understand the mac side has “received little help,” but it’s understandable, the PC side of this game came first, naturally there will be more support for that client. I love this game, and I am not going to leave it just because of a small bug that will soon be fixed. Just my take.

HuggableHedgehog.5431:

Honestly if you guys want to leave the game it affects no one. Me personally, it was my birthday April 11th and was quite excited about a fix for the trading company bug on said day. However, I am also a Computer Science major, and I understand the difficulties in bug tracking. You can’t expect them to just fix problems. It’s called support because they are trying to help, they aren’t called fixers. Give them time and a fix will come. I understand the mac side has “received little help,” but it’s understandable, the PC side of this game came first, naturally there will be more support for that client. I love this game, and I am not going to leave it just because of a small bug that will soon be fixed. Just my take.

agreed

TEMPORARY SOLUTION:

Just for the heads up, I made some diggings the whole night figuring out how to use the “crossover” and I finally made it.

TP is WORKING over CROSSOVER, but unfortunately the game is NON-playable for me. The client is so glitchy and slow, but selling and purchasing is possible as you can see in the attachment.

So what I did is gathering all what I wanted to sell in my bank, and I made one login thru crossover made the selling and purchased what I wanted and then came back to my mac client version and kept playing.

I KNOW it’s not the best solution but it worked for me and I will accept it temporary better than waiting all this time.

If you are interested how I did it:

- Download Crossover & install it.
- Downloaded GW2 “WINDOWS” Version
- Run Crossover and choose “install a windows application”
- Choose the installer which is located in “Guild Wars 2” folder in your desktop.
- You need to choose a “bottle” which is somehow a folder inside crossover to run the game. Simply choose a name and the supported windows you like. For me it worked automatically at winxp/winVista. Then hit INSTALL.
- Crossover will run the launcher you will see a quick downloading follows by an update then the real downloading which will show you somehow around 127,000 files. At that time STOP the downloading and close it. Then close crossover.
- Go to your Mac Version GW2 in you applications folder, right click then choose “show package contents”.
- Go to > Contents > Resources > transgaming > c_drive > GW2. then COPY all it’s contents into the folder > /$USER/Library/Application Support/Crossover/Bottles/GW2Setup.exe/drive_c/Program Files/ ( create a folder in here and call it “Guild Wars 2”. ) This is like 19GB I KNOW :/

- For me what I randomly did, is right click on GW2.exe and OPEN WITH > CROSSOVER

Crossover ran the launcher without downloading anything and the game started. Again it’s not playable for me, but I managed to make the TP & GEM Store works …. Temporary

Hope that I helped somehow

Will we miss the opportunity to buy the minstrel finisher?

JustTrogdor.7892:

MageIanBorthwick.3054:

The way it was presented was that the game was native for mac in all the ways they tried to attract us to the game.

I’m not the biggest fan of how ANet has handled the Mac client but to be fair they don’t advert it as a native client. Google Guild Wars 2 for Mac (this was the first page I found when I was looking at buying GW2) and you get this page:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-2-for-mac-beta/

To bring Guild Wars 2 to the Mac, ArenaNet worked with our partners at TransGaming, whose Cider technology allows us to mirror the game experience as closely as possible between the PC and Mac. This means that future updates to Guild Wars 2 will be available for both platforms simultaneously.

Certainly there are other statements on that page I find misleading as far as Anet’s enthusiasm for the Mac client but it is clearly stated it is run through Cider.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you’re not being disingenuous or a paid mole by Anet, that info you dug up is far more recent than the ads, presentation and article from Anet about the games release for Mac. Most of the posts here leading to that sort of nonsense are either lost in the mists of forum time or removed. It’s been an ongoing sore spot for many of us for quite some time. As I said..a lie of omission that was later capped with the truth, silently, later..when few were looking. A classic in the Wizard of Oz vein, but still misdirection and omission.

And it is still our right to clamor for native support. I do sympathize for those scrambling to correct the issue the Hack created but throwing it out as a shield is, more or less, obfuscation. When is the right time to be ask for the means to end 99% of Mac players issues? Is there a correct time? Posts in the forum when nothing is actively falling apart, but still uncomfortably glitchy though not catastrophically so, usually get the following:

1) no response
2) unsympathetic and rude denouncements
3) cries to shut up and enjoy what we have(trickle down economics anyone)
4) “GET A PC!!!” posts

None of the above are proper customer service, appropriate or merited. So while the iron is hot we will strike, get our digs, and we will complain. If you have an honestly better plan that doesn’t involve buying the company, I’d be willing to entertain whatever you think will get us to the eventual goal of a Native Client.

I’m not sure what time zone Anet is in…but I’m sure it’s way past the morning of (4/11). So…an ETA on when it will be fixed? Tomorrow? Patch? Never? I was in the middle of crafting my ascended leggings too

I think a lot of these issues could be resolved (or even better prevented ahead of time) if one (or more) Anet developers were required by management to play using OSX / anet Mac client as their default and forbidden to play under Windows.

ANet is in the Seattle bay area (WA, GMT-8)

Building a VM is looking mighty worth it solely for the Mac downtimes with functionality like this.

Feydiir.2609:

I think a lot of these issues could be resolved (or even better prevented ahead of time) if one (or more) Anet developers were required by management to play using OSX / anet Mac client as their default and forbidden to play under Windows.

Agreed. I am sure they can spare ONE person to do a run through of all the critical operations (TP, combat/dodges, chat, ACTUALLY PLAYING THE GAME) of the Mac “client” cough cider cough.

Weird. Have tried all of the suggestions to no avail. I wasn’t having any issues at all until two days ago. Did something happen at A-Net?

Dementicus.1482:

Weird. Have tried all of the suggestions to no avail. I wasn’t having any issues at all until two days ago. Did something happen at A-Net?

You need to read the previous pages of this post to know what really happened. In short:

- Something called: Heartbleed happened.
- And some people suggested temporary alternatives till ANET fix this issue. Some nice guys suggested using “Crossover” and I did and YES it worked but with some bugs. Read my previous post to read in details.

so they still have not fix it ! !

EnDLesS.7982:

so they still have not fix it ! !

I’m afraid NOT, based on dozens of emails I received from companies that provides online services notifying me that they have the same problem. That means this problem is kinda international and is quite big.

I believe this is going to a long time, but hopefully it will be fixed before or with the new patch.

noor.7960:

EnDLesS.7982:

so they still have not fix it ! !

I’m afraid NOT, based on dozens of emails I received from companies that provides online services notifying me that they have the same problem. That means this problem is kinda international and is quite big.

I believe this is going to a long time, but hopefully it will be fixed before or with the new patch.

I’m not going to dispute the fact that the bug is international, but PC users can use TP fine. Correct me if i’m wrong, but all cider does is translate the windows version of GW2 into a language/series of commands that the Mac can understand. So, if PC users can use TP, shouldn’t the Mac version too? Unless cider is messed up…

Lets say that what I said above is complete nonsense (i’m just guessing). If they fixed the PC version, surely the Mac version could be fixed as well. After all, it IS the same bug…just on different platforms.

God Of Mustard.6354:

noor.7960:

EnDLesS.7982:

so they still have not fix it ! !

I’m afraid NOT, based on dozens of emails I received from companies that provides online services notifying me that they have the same problem. That means this problem is kinda international and is quite big.

I believe this is going to a long time, but hopefully it will be fixed before or with the new patch.

I’m not going to dispute the fact that the bug is international, but PC users can use TP fine. Correct me if i’m wrong, but all cider does is translate the windows version of GW2 into a language/series of commands that the Mac can understand. So, if PC users can use TP, shouldn’t the Mac version too? Unless cider is messed up…

Lets say that what I said above is complete nonsense (i’m just guessing). If they fixed the PC version, surely the Mac version could be fixed as well. After all, it IS the same bug…just on different platforms.

A comment on page 5 of what a dev said on reddit explains it pretty well for why it is a mac issue and not Windows.

Hope this gets fixed tomorrow i can’t stand not being able to use the BLTC.
i kind of want something to make up for all the waiting not to big but not too small i know its a bug and not Anet’s fault but still we are loosing some of the sales and even perhaps some items were low and now they are rising due to the upcoming update.
just expressing my opinion. But please fix it already X . x just want it to work again more than anything.

StinVec.3621:

God Of Mustard.6354:

noor.7960:

EnDLesS.7982:

so they still have not fix it ! !

I’m afraid NOT, based on dozens of emails I received from companies that provides online services notifying me that they have the same problem. That means this problem is kinda international and is quite big.

I believe this is going to a long time, but hopefully it will be fixed before or with the new patch.

I’m not going to dispute the fact that the bug is international, but PC users can use TP fine. Correct me if i’m wrong, but all cider does is translate the windows version of GW2 into a language/series of commands that the Mac can understand. So, if PC users can use TP, shouldn’t the Mac version too? Unless cider is messed up…

Lets say that what I said above is complete nonsense (i’m just guessing). If they fixed the PC version, surely the Mac version could be fixed as well. After all, it IS the same bug…just on different platforms.

A comment on page 5 of what a dev said on reddit explains it pretty well for why it is a mac issue and not Windows.

Ah, that explains it. TYVM

A key point seems to be being missed here. This does not appear to be a universal problem for Apple implementations, in fact the opposite. Apple has discouraged the use of OpenSSL for some time. Quotes from Apple in 2012:

“OpenSSL does not provide a stable API from version to version. Use of the OS X OpenSSL libraries by apps is strongly discouraged.”

Seems they were right, but Anet chose to ignore them. And before someone says it, no I am not suggesting they foresaw the Heartbleed security exposure, but rather the capacity to adapt when something like this happens.

The key points being that (a) the whole software industry is not struggling with providing a Mac friendly solution, seemingly just Anet, and (b) their implementation ignored advice from Apple in the first place.

Just woke up, I actually expected the update to be implemented by now in all honesty…

markswiftgem.2489:

Just woke up, I actually expected the update to be implemented by now in all honesty…

I too came online this morning with a bit of hope, but alas, A set-back is a set-back. It’s no ones fault, i just hope we’ll get it fixed on monday or at long last with the patch on tuesday. (It has to, with al the changes, it’s gonna be hell on the TP)

Guess I’ll be at my Xone for the weekend… wished there was TESO at it right now Anet =P

So, what would be the next estimation for fix release to solve the BLTC and ssl cert revocation problems (if this was the main reason) on MAC client or do we need to wait until the April Feature Pack release or beyond…please, it would be nice to know

StinVec.3621:

God Of Mustard.6354:

noor.7960:

EnDLesS.7982:

so they still have not fix it ! !

I’m afraid NOT, based on dozens of emails I received from companies that provides online services notifying me that they have the same problem. That means this problem is kinda international and is quite big.

I believe this is going to a long time, but hopefully it will be fixed before or with the new patch.

I’m not going to dispute the fact that the bug is international, but PC users can use TP fine. Correct me if i’m wrong, but all cider does is translate the windows version of GW2 into a language/series of commands that the Mac can understand. So, if PC users can use TP, shouldn’t the Mac version too? Unless cider is messed up…

Lets say that what I said above is complete nonsense (i’m just guessing). If they fixed the PC version, surely the Mac version could be fixed as well. After all, it IS the same bug…just on different platforms.

A comment on page 5 of what a dev said on reddit explains it pretty well for why it is a mac issue and not Windows.

It really isn’t an explanation to why it’s taken this long to fix though. Every day I work with things such kitten certs and the like, ANet shouldn’t be so stupid to let something like this slide. And no one should be so naive to think that the main issue is that Macs can’t handle it properly. If anything, Mac should be able to handle it better than PC.

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so they still have not fix it ! !

I’m afraid NOT, based on dozens of emails I received from companies that provides online services notifying me that they have the same problem. That means this problem is kinda international and is quite big.

I believe this is going to a long time, but hopefully it will be fixed before or with the new patch.

I’m not going to dispute the fact that the bug is international, but PC users can use TP fine. Correct me if i’m wrong, but all cider does is translate the windows version of GW2 into a language/series of commands that the Mac can understand. So, if PC users can use TP, shouldn’t the Mac version too? Unless cider is messed up…

Lets say that what I said above is complete nonsense (i’m just guessing). If they fixed the PC version, surely the Mac version could be fixed as well. After all, it IS the same bug…just on different platforms.

A comment on page 5 of what a dev said on reddit explains it pretty well for why it is a mac issue and not Windows.

It really isn’t an explanation to why it’s taken this long to fix though. Every day I work with things such kitten certs and the like, ANet shouldn’t be so stupid to let something like this slide. And no one should be so naive to think that the main issue is that Macs can’t handle it properly. If anything, Mac should be able to handle it better than PC.

The person my response was a reply to did not ask for why it has taken as much time as it has and I never claimed my response was an explanation as to why it has taken as much time as it has. Why did you quote me stating that the linked post “really isn’t an explanation to why it’s taken this long to fix” when that was not even being discussed?

Also, the issue isn’t with Macs, it’s with the Mac Client. The linked comment cited the ANet dev as saying “the Mac client doesn’t deal well with HTTPs certificates changing”, not of Macs not liking it. I know my comment said “for why it is a mac issue and not Windows” and I should not have shortened it to those respective elements and instead specified the word “Client” (Mac Client and Windows Client), instead of just Mac and Windows. This is not a Mac vs PC debate unless people here are turning it into one. If it is becoming a debate of Macs Vs PCs, then that does not belong on these forums and those members should have their posts reported and deleted.

So listen to this… I have been having the serious issue of black screen on gem purchases and currency exchange and the issue of misshaped text boxes on buy and sell tabs… Very annoying. I was out of commission for about a week. After trying to reset the system, delete local dat file and reinstall, as well as deleting the specific activity monitor things… to no avail… I finally tried to install the guild wars 2 game on a program called CrossOver. Worked like a charm. Everything works fine now. I’m basically running a windows version of the game on my mac computer and TP works perfectly fine. Hope this helps.

I may as well just run it on bootcamp, which I can’t be bothered to do. I have windows 7 ready and all.

arghh they still haven’t fix it!!