Complaint, Dropping Mac Users
Maxis you give a three day notice MAC users (Lion10.7) should not update their games on Oct. 3rd or they will no longer be able to play their owned packs. To never update their games again. I'm disap...
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@Felicity One of the gurus already confirmed that gallery access for these users will continue so they won't be forced to play offline.
Autoupdate doesn't turn on without the users content (I'm on Mac and have automatic updates off and it hasn't changed in the client though I dare say it updates more often than TS4 does). Afaik there was already a rolled back patch that broke the game for Lion users so they'd have already been warned about leaving Auto-updates off. Honestly, I don't know if they even have the regular Origin client. (there's a legacy one for unsupported systems.
I understand the concern. The problem is that the current version of the game contains an element that breaks the game for the upcoming MacOS. To make it work on the new system, because of how MacOS works, the patch I mentioned (that broke it for Lion users before) has to come back.
Since they did the rollback before, I would guess that they will make a compatible version of the game available to anyone who hasn't turned off automatic updates yet. Though with multiple warnings about incompatibility and the issue with the previous patch, I would hope that the vast majority of Lion users have turned off the auto-updates.
Autoupdate doesn't turn on without the users content (I'm on Mac and have automatic updates off and it hasn't changed in the client though I dare say it updates more often than TS4 does). Afaik there was already a rolled back patch that broke the game for Lion users so they'd have already been warned about leaving Auto-updates off. Honestly, I don't know if they even have the regular Origin client. (there's a legacy one for unsupported systems.
I understand the concern. The problem is that the current version of the game contains an element that breaks the game for the upcoming MacOS. To make it work on the new system, because of how MacOS works, the patch I mentioned (that broke it for Lion users before) has to come back.
Since they did the rollback before, I would guess that they will make a compatible version of the game available to anyone who hasn't turned off automatic updates yet. Though with multiple warnings about incompatibility and the issue with the previous patch, I would hope that the vast majority of Lion users have turned off the auto-updates.
