Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Jun 2007 19:36 UTC, submitted by atezun
Despite what many (including myself) thought when EA announced they would support the Mac platform, the games EA will release are actually not native ports - instead, they will use Transgaming's Cider engine, a Wine-like wrapper for running Windows games on Intel Macs. This news was found in a Transgaming press release. Apart from the fact that this might negatively affect performance, it also means PowerPC Macs will not be able to play these games.
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Member since:2005-07-07
I stopped buying EA games a long time ago; I'll start again if/when they start putting out anything that isn't just a rehash of last year's (which is a rehash of the year before's, etc.)
While I fully agree with you, I think you're expecting too much from EA. Football was Football in 2006. Football is Football in 2007. There's not much they can do to make things different apart from updating the player roster and such.
I personally think sports games are boring anyway. The whole reason I play video games is to do things I can't do IRL. I wanna blow things up, drive at 200 mph, beat shit up, dodge bullets, command an army, etc. If I wanted to play football, I'll phone up some friends and we'll go kick about in the field for a bit.
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2005-07-14
I stopped buying EA games a long time ago; I'll start again if/when they start putting out anything that isn't just a rehash of last year's (which is a rehash of the year before's, etc.).
I plan on using Parallels 3 and BootCamp for my "hardcore" gaming, while bugging the developers for native OS X versions. Also, buying native OS X games from folks like Aspyr and Ambrosia, etc. Eventually, I hope, developers will see the value of producing OS X versions of their games, or at least allowing porting houses to do it. (Hint: Making your code portable also magically makes it less buggy, since other compilers/platforms will turn up different bugs.)
- chrish