Will Mac be supported? I know that I am going to be probably be roasted for this, but I would dearly love to see this ported to a MAC as I use it for work and not a Windows Machine, It is pretty decent the Mac that I have, and was hoping if this could possibly arrive to the Mac. I'm not here to say Mac is number one, or anything, just asking if it will be someday supported for us Mac users.
Thank You so much for an actual decent posting 🙂 I cannot dual boot, as apparently that was a 32bit feature, but i have the 64bit m1 feature on my macbook, but am running parallels windows on my machine, but i don't know if it can handle it as it can barely handle call of duty when using a vmware even though my macbook is pretty much the highest for gaming performance, so I don't understand why it has some issues, but i'm looking more into it, for BF2042 I guess that I will just have to wait till the Xbox Series X gets it and hopefully one day they'll also include in their performance Mouse and Keyboard. What a pity that Mac isn't yet supported, but many thanks again for a peaceable look into it.
@KnightRa1der it's just been mentioned to be released for Xbox One, Xbox Series, PS4, PS5 and PC. Noth specifically mentioned for MAC.
And as those are the minimum PC requirements for the Beta of the Game, you may be barely able to run it on a MAC anyways.
What can or will come later we don't know yet. 🤞
Greets,
Travis
I'm just being super curious, why exactly don't most games like BFV and the like come to Mac? I know we have the origin launcher and the like but i am just super curious why it's not always supported? Or other games like C&C? If I am being off topic and rude I do apologise.
Hi @KnightRa1der,
It's unfortunate for the BF game loving MAC users, but reality is that the total market potential by making such FPS games as BF2042 simply do not sell enough licenses to make it a financial viable business for EA to spend the money on it to do so.
The EA Dev team also need very different and additional skillsets then to do the dev for MAC, while actually the consoles and the PCs are having many components/aspects in common, which makes it easier also for the EA tech team to do a decent job on it.
Apple insists on some very constrained dev aspects and using their dedicated dev platform as well, plus the licensing rules are also very deliberate...
Example is you see sophisticated art designer tools for the MACs which you dont find easily as good still these days for the PC world, but you also pay some serious money of literally thousands of $ for those great and astonishing apps.
As MAC aficionado you might also find it OK to pay like $20 per month for your MAC game license (which is common for many MAC programs) while you have noticed in this forum many players here have even complained finding the $60 one time only license payment outrageous expensive.
So bit sad of course that we don't get a BF2042 MAC version so also the MAC players could join us, but the risk is probably too high for EA daring to bet on it paying back...
Thank You so much for replying both so kind and non aggressive towards mac, as I often run into people who tell me buy a PC or stuff like that. It has been very enlightening, i understand it completely as an ex windows owner, so thank you again, out of context, will support for mouse and keyboard for BF2042 also be implemented for the Xbox? I know I have asked one question, just thought to save making two topics, well anyway, any thoughts that could happen. Also reading that link you left, it's very interesting stuff.
@KnightRa1derRegarding the M/KB thing, as of now it's a "nope" on consoles in general i believe, as for the rest, no problem.
(there's a fairly comprehensive thread on the M/KB bit on consoles a bit further down on the front page if you want more details, no point reposting it all here)
edit: since there's a bunch of them now, this is probably the most comprehensive for now;
