Well, I'm a Mac guy. Preparatory statement: HTC has pulled off an amazing feat in pumping out a quality game in record time. If either of my PCs could handle it, I'd definitely be giving AH a try, and would probably enjoy it enough to keep my account. Unfortunately, I don't really have enough free time to justify getting a decent PC box just for games at this point. Maybe soon. Look back through anything I've ever posted. I've never slammed AH, the game.
That said, I'll reiterate what I said long ago. I do think it was a mistake to not make the game cross platform from the get-go, and despite HT and Pyro's comments, I doubt much effort really went into ensuring the code was as cross-platform as possible. No slam, just a guess. It's still going to be a "Mac port" or a "Linux port" ... "sometime down the road," not a Mac game or Linux game, like WB3 and WW2OL will. Those were designed from the ground up with the Mac platform in mind.
With a development staff as small as HTC's the investment of a Mac or Linux programmer would have been small compared to the probable gains. Sure it would have slowed the development down SOME, but it would speed things up in the long run, and increase revenue.
Better than 20% of the beta signups for WW2OL were Mac, and there were *thousands* of signups. I just don't see the business sense in ignoring 1/5 to 1/4 of a market, especially when that segment is experiencing growth, and your two main competitors have announced support for them. That's one less thing on your tally sheet in the "Compare these products" box, and with three competitors, you should be aiming for as many edges over the competition as you can.
It just wouldn't have taken that much effort to secure 20% more players, and a devoted following among the largely fanatically loyal Mac crowd. Cause that's one thing we are ... pretty loyal when someone makes an honest effort to support us right.
And one last thing. Pyro, Superfly, I think it's kind of unprofessional to make posts like you do against potential customers, even if they ARE trolling or asking for a virtual clubbing. You got players to take care of it, no need to do it yourselves. It's one thing to take issue with a person and their comments; it's another entirely to join in the ridicule of someone in a public forum as a representative of your company.
Feel free to disagree, that's just my opinion after seeing a couple of similar posts in other threads by you two.
Spitboy -SW-
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