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Posted November 01, 2024
https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/10/cyberpunk-2077-and-the-phantom-liberty-expansion-are-coming-to-mac-early-next-year/

This feels like it's going to completely whiff the landing. Is Apple sponsoring the development, or is CDPR doing this out of pocket? If it's the latter, wild.

I just can't imagine Apple users as a whole to be the type of person who would either be (classical) punks, or be into this whole Cyberpunk thing.


Why would purchasers of a bespoke 1000$+ bourgeoisie machine be into a genre about [checks notes] overthrowing oppressive megacorps and being nonconformist?
Posted November 01, 2024
I'm surprised that the new Mac port will be widely available. Apple tends to make the ports they fund App Store-only (Death Stranding Director's Cut, Resident Evil Village, Beyond a Steel Sky), which also makes me think that Apple probably had nothing to do with this port.
Posted November 01, 2024
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dnovraD: Why would purchasers of a bespoke 1000$+ bourgeoisie machine be into a genre about [checks notes] overthrowing oppressive megacorps and being nonconformist?
Beware of the cyberpunk evil twin: neon-capitalism!
Posted November 01, 2024
The Eye of Sauron....ahem....I mean, Apple decision makers must have a sense of humo....no.....a lapse of sanity? Yeah, more accurate.

Selling a story about dystopian computer companies as bad actors. In a world made wrong by their bad deeds.

Irony.
Posted November 01, 2024
So this supports the new ARM-based Apples, and will be available for free as an extra version to those who own the Windows version already (also on GOG)?

That would be kinda sweet, even though I don't have a Mac. I'd still be interested in seeing how it runs on it, a bit similarly like I'd like to play the Nintendo Switch version of The Witcher 3. Nintendo Switcher 3.
Posted November 02, 2024
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vv221: Beware of the cyberpunk evil twin: neon-capitalism!
Indeed, and it's other evil twin, the Idiocracy.
Posted November 02, 2024
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timppu: So this supports the new ARM-based Apples, and will be available for free as an extra version to those who own the Windows version already (also on GOG)?

That would be kinda sweet, even though I don't have a Mac. I'd still be interested in seeing how it runs on it, a bit similarly like I'd like to play the Nintendo Switch version of The Witcher 3. Nintendo Switcher 3.
If they make an ARM version they should port it to Windows as well. I'd like to say Linux but that probably won't happen. I wonder if it would be possible to play an ARM Windows version on ARM Linux using Wine.
Posted November 02, 2024
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Silver_Dawn: If they make an ARM version
Now I was starting to think, are they going to make a x86-64 Mac version of the game, and people are supposed to run it on the ARM-based "Apple Silicon" with the Rosetta 2 translation layer or whatever it is? Or will it be a proper ARM/Apple Silicon version of the game?

I hope it is the latter, I'd like to see how M Apples (especially the laptops) can run it when there are no translation layers slowing it down.

I first assumed it will directly support the new Apple silicon because that's where Apple is now, but I guess it is a possibility they will still release it as an Apple x86-64 game so the userbase is bigger. Maybe Mac users can tell which is the norm nowadays with new third-party Mac games, are they made straight to Apple silicon.
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Posted November 02, 2024
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timppu: Now I was starting to think, are they going to make an x86-64 Mac version of the game, and people are supposed to run it on the ARM-based "Apple Silicon" with the Rosetta 2 translation layer or whatever it is? Or will it be a proper ARM/Apple Silicon version of the game?

I hope it is the latter, I'd like to see how M Apples (especially the laptops) can run it when there are no translation layers slowing it down.

I first assumed it will directly support the new Apple silicon because that's where Apple is now, but I guess it is a possibility they will still release it as an Apple x86-64 game so the userbase is bigger. Maybe Mac users can tell which is the norm nowadays with new third-party Mac games, are they made straight to Apple silicon.
I'll bet a wooden nickle that by the time the port is ready, Apple will announce they got bored of ARM and will now be switching to yet another processor architecture.
Posted November 02, 2024
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dnovraD: Why would purchasers of a bespoke 1000$+ bourgeoisie machine be into a genre about [checks notes] overthrowing oppressive megacorps and being nonconformist?
Isn't the whole point of games to play a character unlike ourselves, to explore unfamiliar settings and scenarios ?

Also, as much as may sometimes enjoy making fun of people buying Apple's overpriced, overhyped products for the sake impressing other like-minded drones, I doubt your average PC or console gamer is all that much more "punk" these days. No one bought Cyberpunk as an act of nonconformist rebellion.
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