Guild Wars 2

First off, it is a very pleasant surprise to find Mac players getting some love from the Developers, and off the bat, instant benefit has been gleaned from initial testing. Graphics settings changes (disfunction thereof) not withstanding, in game features that depend on pop up windows and overlays like the trade post and clicking through consumables in inventory are now a lot smoother.

Unfortunately, a couple of weeks in now, and I still find myself unwilling to use the 64 bit client due to its instability. A crash will occur within 30 minutes for any seemingly random reason, and without there being a processor-intensive circumstance. Having to send crash reports is about all the feedback I’ve managed to contribute, when I should be sending bug reports that affect playability rather than stop it dead in its tracks.

I am hardly playing on the strongest Mac available. That being said, the stock Mac Mini (late 2014) is listed as an acceptable game station for this client, and the only altered aspect of this machine is that it is running the newest MacOS Sierra…no hardware alterations have been made. Furthermore, I have not had any stability issues before with the older client, even though you would expect a wrapped game to be more memory intensive and/or leaky.

I look forward to providing more constructive feedback. As it stands, I open the client up once a day to see if any updates are taking hold and, if so, I give the game a chance until it crashes on me again… before returning to the wrapped client.