At PAX last year I had a great interview with Chris Priestly, community coordinator for Bioware, about Dragon Age: Origins. I had just seen a trailer for it, and was excited and enthused about the idea of the game coming to the Mac, as many of Bioware’s games have done. So was Chris.
Apparently, not any more.
I found this snippet on the Bioware DA:O forums today, which doesn’t sound so excited or positive towards the idea of a Mac version of the game at all. In fact, the first response to the poster is typical of the responses received by anyone who asks about a Mac release now on these forums.
I did a review of the requests for a Mac version, or more information about whether a Mac version would be forthcoming, on these forums. Starting around PAX time last year, the responses from Chris and other forum moderators were relatively positive. They love the Mac community, the possibility of a Mac version existed, but there was nothing firm, and first and foremost DA:O was a PC game (read: Windows). Basically what you heard in my podcast with Chris.
Over time, as more requests came in, the responses from both moderators and other forum members became more negative. Worse, discussions were being shut down with the explanation that they were no longer about DA:O (yet, I found other discussions that had nothing to do with DA:O that weren’t shut down).
This is very disappointing. You’d think that, with more interest in a Mac version, Bioware would see more benefit in bringing DA:O to the Mac. Certainly I don’t expect them to commit at this time. But if they still love their Mac community, and are still interested in a Mac version, these forum responses are not the way to support that.
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