No love for the Mac on the battlefield says my contact at EA:
At the moment there are no immediate plans for a Mac SKU for either Heroes or BF1943.
It certainly is a bit of a bafflefield (ho ho) out there right now. Mind you, my question of Battlefield 3 for Mac wasn’t answered – mistake or indication of a release? We’ll see next year.
Currently the only Battlefield game on the Mac is BF2142 which runs like a dog sans legs on all of the Macs I’ve owned. Interestingly I tried BF2142 on a last gen MacBook Pro and it ran well at 800×600, with non of the ‘orrible lag that I get on my Mac Pro.
Transgaming have been unable to find my issue with BF2142 so I’m still booting into Vista to get dog tags. The Mac version of BF2142 is good for something though: I use the Mac disc to run my Windows install after the disc cracked.
I have no doubt that not long after they are released there will be unofficial Cider ports of these appearing on the torrents. Don’t want to make a Mac version? We’ll roll our own.
You can’t with Heroes as it’s browser based. I think it uses ActiveX, making a port near impossible.
As for rolling your own 1943, if you’re going to, buy the game and use Crossover for Mac or try Wine?
Better than piracy if you ask me.
Anyone know of a petition or anything to help motivate EA to make more MAC games like the promised?
I don’t know of any. Start one? I’ll sign for what it’s worth.
I’d guess that Heroes would need a substantial re-write considering it uses ActiveX, but I can’t see any reason why 1943 couldn’t be Ciderised.
I’d put more faith in BF3.
I need all of BF series games… EA, give me BF2, 1943 & Heroes pleeeaaasseeee!!!
want to play Battlefield :[
If you really want to play Battlefield then buy a console its on. Or a copy of windows.
get bf heroes on mac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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