Guild Wars 2

I’d just like to point out that the ONLY reason I still play Guild Wars 2 is because it runs on OS X. I simply cannot be bothered to reboot to a windows installation for gaming any more.
You may want to get some more cross platform expertise in your team for your future developments… i know South Korea is entrenched with Windows, but you can do better than a Wine wrapper.

Some companies change their windows code slightly to make it run better with Wine (Rift comes to mind as an example, there is a dedicated forum thread there).

However, Windows is too entrenched in ANet’s DNA. I ran across a blog from an ex ANet-er (this one: http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/, he also worked on some Blizzard games) and from his posts it looks like even their servers run Windows. There’s not even a hint of cross platform considerations in his code examples.

Also note that ANet is owned by NCSoft, a South Korean company. I’d say Windows penetration even in tech circles there is the worst in the world. So there will be no help from management wrt to cross platform.

Sigh… rant over.

For the record, it also runs on a macbook white unibody with a 9400M with no dedicated video memory. Choppy and sometimes under 15 fps even on the lowest details, but it’s good enough for a heart or two or for checking the trading post. I do have 8 G of RAM in it instead of the original 2.

OpenGL: yes please.
iPad/iPhone version: you want the game to be completely dumbed down with maybe one button to press? Or let me guess, you are actually able to play mortal kombat (or whatever fighting game they ported to iOS) on an iOS device?

Hmm i think the people who complain about the price of precursors on the TP should take a look at how much a set of obsidian armor cost in GW1