Guild Wars 2

“We‘re always working on the performance of the game with every update, but we have a big batch of improvements coming in this feature pack. We’ve changed the way many of the underlying systems work, making them more cost-effective, which will reduce how often players will be seeing issues caused by performance. This is most notable in large combat situations like WvW and at the PvE world boss events. These improvements affect both the server and client performance, so in these situations, you should see increased frame rates as well!”

Will this also increase performance on Mac?

I’m curious about this too. We mac users feel pretty neglected here. Don’t get me wrong, I’m super grateful to even have a Mac client, but it seems like it’s not getting a lot of love from Arena Net.

Any ETA on when it’s going to move out of beta and be at least within 90% as good as the PC version?

According to https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/19#post4335997 we will hopefully hear an update soon.

Poundsmack.1506:

I’m curious about this too. We mac users feel pretty neglected here. Don’t get me wrong, I’m super grateful to even have a Mac client, but it seems like it’s not getting a lot of love from Arena Net.

Any ETA on when it’s going to move out of beta and be at least within 90% as good as the PC version?

The Mac beta will never move out of beta. They only keep the beta tag on there as a safety net. If issues arise or they want to drop support for it they can, it’s a “beta”.

Blind Jimmy.1634:

According to https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/19#post4335997 we will hopefully hear an update soon.

Very cool! Thanks for posting this

His answers sound very short, like, not overly positive/optimistic.
Obviously if they’re optimising the client then yes you’re going to see improvements on OSX – but how much of an improvement is anger question. It’s still a 32bit cider port. There are two voices in my head, one is pessimistic and thinks they’re just going to stop the mac client altogether, the other is optimistic and thinks they might announce a native client.

Best case scenario, a lot of our crashing issues in high pop areas are fixed. Worst case scenario, the game breaks severely and they cannot fix it. Likely scenario (historical precedent), they break the mac port and get around to fixing it in a few weeks.

Basically, I wouldn’t plan to play GW2 just after the patch hits just to avoid disappointment. If it isn’t broken, hey great news. Just feel that not expecting more than we’ve got in the past is a good course of action here.

Personally, if the patch hits and the mac client doesn’t explode I’ll go ahead and buy some gems and maybe get Belinda’s great sword or something.