Re: Dragon Age: Inquisition for Mac OS X

Thank you, I think.  I have never owned a Windows platform and I do not understand your statement about licensing Windows 7.  Please expand on what you said.  Keep in mind I have only owned Macs since 1989 and I have learned to always keep it simple.  Thank you again for responding.

Apple sells the same hardware as the rest of us use, just charging more for it, is all.  With a small app named "Bootcamp" (free from Apple), and a copy of the Windows Operating system, you can switch between OSX and Windows when you wish to play games.  You should be aware that the average Apple hardware is below this game's requirements, and the expense of upgrading keeps most of your peers from using their machines for these high intensity games.

Minimum PC Specs

    OS: Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, 64-bit
    CPU: AMD quad-core CUP @2.5 GHz / Intel quad-core CPU @2.0 GHz
    System RAM: 4 GB
    Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 4870 / NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
    Graphics Card Memory: 512 MB
    Hard Drive Space: 26 GB
    DirectX 10

I can't find an app called "bootcamp".

You can find it in "applications" -> "Utilities" -> "Boot Camp Assistant".

So after releasing all of the other DA games on PC and Mac, they choose an engine that doesn't support Mac this time around?  That's so disappointing.

Battlefield is on Frostbite, and Fifa 15 on a relative of it.  When Apple supports games better, themselves, perhaps things will be different.  Right now, neither Aplle nor Intel will do so, making developers choose consoles over laptops of almost any kind, for instance.

They really have been pushing the console versions, anyway. Just look at the horrible mouse and keyboard controls (granted, BioWare said on Reddit that they'd fix this in a patch). I buy a Mac to stay away from Windows, personally, so I just ended up playing this on PS4 instead. I prefer playing in the living room, anyway.

This also reminds me of the EA Origin Black Fridays sale. I would have picked up the first two games (I didn't give them a real shot, back in the day) if they had BOTH been on offer for Mac, rather than just the PC versions. Not only do we get fewer releases on Mac, but we also end up having to pay more for the games too.

The best thing we can do as consumers who are dissatisfied with an organization that provides a service is just not to patron the service. Just don't buy them. If they are going to be condescending to mac users simply because we prefer and OS that isn't Windows, simply don't their their games. If the Mac community grows then they will have no choice but to find a work around. All we can do is not provide them with our money and hope that there is a paradigm shift.