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Titanfall Creators in Talks With Aspyr, Mac Version May Be in the Works

critter13 said:
I bought the pc version and currently play it in bootcamp but obviously I would prefer a mac version. I wonder if I will be able to download the mac version for free since I purchased the pc version?

And yes this game is a blast to play, the movement is spectacular
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so i have a late 2013 13" Macbook Air i5 1.3ghz intel 5000 with shared 1gb ram and in boot camp i was able to run the beta what system are you running the game on in boot camp

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critter13 said:
I bought the pc version and currently play it in bootcamp but obviously I would prefer a mac version. I wonder if I will be able to download the mac version for free since I purchased the pc version?

And yes this game is a blast to play, the movement is spectacular
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so i have a Macbook Air 1.3ghz 15 with 1 gb intel 5000 running windows 7 64
i was able to run the beta and i wanted to see what system u are running
your copy of the game on before i go spend the money on game that will not work

let me know please thanks and anyone elso that may read this comment below
 
Seeing that Titanfall uses a modified version of the source engine surely it would be easier to just port it in-house and put it onto steamplay?

As for Titanfall, it's great, the speed of play reminds me of Quake III :D

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gotluck said:
I wish apple cared about Mac gaming more. And made a computer with a gaming desktop card.

On current gen models it's: integrated gpu, mobile gpu, or workstation gpu that wasn't made for games.

iOS is the leader in mobile gaming too

Come on Apple!
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Doesn't matter a toss with Titanfall, it runs on pretty much anything.
 
I played it on the XBone. I was unimpressed the graphics were meh, and the gameplay was just like Call Of Duty but with Mechs. I guess if I was a COD fan I would love it, but it wasn't for me.

I'd rather see Ultra Street Fighter IV on mac so I can delete my bootcamp partition.
 
Chaos123x said:
I'd rather see Ultra Street Fighter IV on mac so I can delete my bootcamp partition.
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Agreed! But it seems the Japanese gaming giants all but acknowledge that Macs even exist. Which is interesting because they have so far deeply embraced iOS.

Any capcom title would be nice. Street Fighter and Resident Evil titles would be awesome. Or even Devil May Cry.

Nothing from Konami either. Castlevania or Metal Gear Rising are only on Windows unfortunately.

And i was bummed out that Square didn't even have a Mac version of FFXIV, considering that the MMO community is quite supportive of the Mac platform.

I really wish these Japanese gaming companies would start paying a little more attention to the Mac :(.
 
cylack said:
What ever happened to Apple gaming? Growing up using an Apple iie and then a IIgs, gaming was great. Tons of new games came out. Then in the 90’s on it seemed gaming died on Apple pc's. I think Jobs felt gaming was silly. I hope Tim Cook realizes its a great market to serve and makes gaming a priority. I want to see..gasp..Mac exclusive games (remember Marathon?), not crappy Cider ports.
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Not that it has anything to do with it but...

Jobs left Apple in 1985 and came back in 1996. His influence wouldn't be part of the Mac lineup for at least a year or two after.

iOS gaming is booming, however.
 
cylack said:
What ever happened to Apple gaming? Growing up using an Apple iie and then a IIgs, gaming was great. Tons of new games came out. Then in the 90’s on it seemed gaming died on Apple pc's. I think Jobs felt gaming was silly. I hope Tim Cook realizes its a great market to serve and makes gaming a priority. I want to see..gasp..Mac exclusive games (remember Marathon?), not crappy Cider ports.
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Lots of fond memories of gaming on my Mac plus. Limitations bred creativity, and smart people made games.

Not so bad now, but gaming has pervaded all life and non-life so it's just static.
 
ActionableMango said:
They'd probably just release it on Origin for Mac. I don't know that this would be a new model or anything. EA publishes their own games and games developed by other companies. Titanfall by Aspyr would be a little of both.
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Just to clear some things up, Respawn is likely asking Aspyr just to publish the game, not necessarily port it. Respawn OWNS the titanfall IP, EA doesn't own anything. That was important to the guys at Respawn after what went down with COD and Activision. Respawn is an independent studio and EA published the game under their Partners program, which just funds development but doesn't give EA ownership of the studio or their work. Bungie did the same thing after splitting from Microsoft.

So EA probably got a deal from Microsoft to only publish the game on Xbox and not PS4, but Respawn can maybe find funding from another publisher to publish on the Mac separately from their contract with EA.

Idk what the details are behind this EA partners program, but the point I'm making is Respawn is independent and they own Titanfall, not EA.
 
I'm going to be the minority here but I don't want to really play the game (I know I'd be awful at it) but I'd love to texture a Titan in Mari or Substance Painter....
 
My understanding is that MS paid for console exclusivity of the first Titanfall. Hence it only appearing on Xbone and 360, but leaving open the option of bringing it to Mac (which isn't really a serious competitor (yet) to Windows and Xbox gaming).

Respawn already said that sequels will come to other console platforms as well, as they own the IP. With PS4 performing better than Xbone in the market so far, they may slightly regret the decision, but perhaps their game can boost Xbone, we'll see.

As this isn't a story-driven game, there's not really a need to bring the first game to PS4 at a later stage.
 
Hmm

I wonder if Microsoft can prevent this? I mean right now this is a Microsoft exclusive (XBone, Xbox 360, and Windows). Or is it likely that Microsoft only cares about the console exclusivity?

I would like this game. I actually have just tried to clear out my bootcamp partition. I have a 100 GB partition, but even after deleting all of my steam games and pretty much everything I could find, after the Windows install and other junk that I can't find, I only have 40 GB free space. That doesn't seem like it can be right, but I haven't found anything else I can delete. And the Titanfall download is supposed to be 48 GB. :mad:

I'd have to re-do my bootcamp partition and set it at something like 150GB or 200GB. I should have done that before. But it will take about a day to go through the process of setting this up again. Ugh.
 
lordofthereef said:
Sort of baffles by this. Surely this would have done better on PS4 than it will on Mac.
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Thats exactly why this is possible.. MS paid EA for console exclusivity (quite late in Titanfall's development).. Apple aren't a major player in gaming so nobody really cares about OSX in negotiations like that.

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TallManNY said:
I'd have to re-do my bootcamp partition and set it at something like 150GB or 200GB. I should have done that before. But it will take about a day to go through the process of setting this up again. Ugh.
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I keep a big chunk of my origin and steam libraries on external drives.. If you use thunderbolt it's no slower.. Games are too big to fit many on most laptop/imacs. :(
 
TallManNY said:
I actually have just tried to clear out my bootcamp partition. I have a 100 GB partition, but even after deleting all of my steam games and pretty much everything I could find, after the Windows install and other junk that I can't find, I only have 40 GB free space. That doesn't seem like it can be right, but I haven't found anything else I can delete.
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If you have a lot of RAM, the hibernate file may be the issue. When I did a clean install of Win 8.1 on my Mac, I was shocked to see it filled around 60GB of my 120GB boot camp partition. Turned out close to 30GB was taken by the hibernate file. Switching off that functionality freed up that 30GB again.
 
I'm running this game through bootcamp and it plays alright. Would a native mac version have better performance?
 
Coolpher said:
so i have a late 2013 13" Macbook Air i5 1.3ghz intel 5000 with shared 1gb ram and in boot camp i was able to run the beta what system are you running the game on in boot camp

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so i have a Macbook Air 1.3ghz 15 with 1 gb intel 5000 running windows 7 64
i was able to run the beta and i wanted to see what system u are running
your copy of the game on before i go spend the money on game that will not work

let me know please thanks and anyone elso that may read this comment below
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How did it run on the MBA? I have the same one as you. 2013 model.
 
lesferdinand said:
If you have a lot of RAM, the hibernate file may be the issue. When I did a clean install of Win 8.1 on my Mac, I was shocked to see it filled around 60GB of my 120GB boot camp partition. Turned out close to 30GB was taken by the hibernate file. Switching off that functionality freed up that 30GB again.
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I've got 16GB of RAM. Shoot. I bet that is it. What a crappy waste of space. This is a desktop that gets used at least every day, in the morning and at night, so it never needs to hibernate.

Ugh Windows! You always do something weird.
 
mixel said:
Thats exactly why this is possible.. MS paid EA for console exclusivity (quite late in Titanfall's development).. Apple aren't a major player in gaming so nobody really cares about OSX in negotiations like that.
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I realize there is exclusivity... it just makes me wonder how smart it was to accept these exclusivity deals in the first place. Seems to me they would move way more units of they scrapped the exclusivity offers from the getgo.
 
lesferdinand said:
If you have a lot of RAM, the hibernate file may be the issue. When I did a clean install of Win 8.1 on my Mac, I was shocked to see it filled around 60GB of my 120GB boot camp partition. Turned out close to 30GB was taken by the hibernate file. Switching off that functionality freed up that 30GB again.
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Thanks again.
After fighting my way through this, I made progress. First, I set hibernation to off. That did nothing. Then I ran the powercfg off the command line. I couldn't do that as it didn't give me admin right. Then I ran command line as admin. Ran powercfg off again, and it got me another 10 GB of free space. I actually have 12 GB of RAM, not the 16 GB that I thought I had. (I think I must have had 4 GB to start and added 8 GB to my two empty slots in my iMac.

Well that got me to 47.6 GB of free space. As I understand it, I need 48 GB to download Titanfall! Well, maybe Titanfall won't actually take up that much space on my computer when I install it. If I make it to a store this weekend, I will give it a try and see. I figure worst case I will find something else to delete to get the extra few hundred Megs I need.

Thanks again for your help.

And Windows is ridiculous. I can't believe in 2014 I need to do this craaap to use my computer.

No wonder more tablets were bought last quarter than PCs will be sold all year.
 
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