Guild Wars 2

Actually it also seems to run better for me. I am still unable to select the best settings (high res textures for example) but it works better. I’d say about 5-10 FPS more on 1920×1080 reaching about 30fps average now.

I think it’s just not worth it anymore. They don’t fraking care about mac users. My pm to the community manager got no response. But my thread about the message got deleted, so at least it seems they look into the topics from time to time.

For me – gw2 is just dead. As dead as their support for the mac community.

I don’t know how anybody can’t see that this is arena net’s fault and only theirs.
This is their forum, with their customers. Not responding in this thread has nothing to do with transgaming. And the choice not to port the client but use transgaming instead was also arena net’s fault.
Also, there’s a contract between Arena Net and Transgaming. So one of the points in this contract will be the SLA, the service level agreements, for supporting the client. This would also be Arena Net’s fault if those SLA are weak or if they are unable to make transgaming response more quickly and releasing more updates.

I am the customer of Arena Net. And this kind of support is without any respect for their customers.

Yeah, really really bad public relations management. Sad but true.

THe game is “ported” poorly for the mac. That’s it. No need discuss any errors/glitches until the mods resurrect this forum. Just look at the last updates. October. Thats 3 month back.

I know, this is not a technical issue itself, but the Mac version has LOTS of technical issues and no mod seems to be active in the forum.

The last update on the locked topics is from october 2012! There were only 3 updates released, while there are many many listed and confirmed open issues.

You can delete this post after posting an update/progress report in the mac sub forums.

kthxby

So, you created a Mac Beta client, released 3 (THREE!!) Updates since the release and the performance is still incredibly bad. What is going on? No updates, no news postings, nothing. Are you still working on this client at all? I don’t think so. If you would be, you would care for better PR management by responding to forum posts and posting about the progress. Instead – nothing, silence.

You knew from the start, that a client using Wine/Cider would never deliver the performance, that your customers expect. So the question would be: Was this an intermediate solution? Are you working on a Mac/Linux native client?

With valve releasing more and more games with Steam for Mac and Linux, you should consider a native OpenGL based Client, which would deliver the best performance on every system. Perhaps you could not use some of the latest DircetX11.Trash shaders or features, but seriously – who cares for those?

With the current release, we cannot run the game as it’s meant to be played on our systems, even with very powerful cpu’s, graphics cards and a kittenload of ram.

If I see this correct, the cider version even runs in 32 bit mode, what would mean that the emulated system would also be a 32 bit system and most of our ram would not be accessible for the game. I think this is the true reason, why we can’t enable high detail textures – the game runs in 32 bit.

So please:
- Post update notes
- Post about your progress
- Consider a native port instead of a Cider “wannabe” port.