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Oh, they're fiendish indeed. They're offering the game for free if you sign up for a year of WoW. That's just mean.

I managed to abstain from that, but I did pre-buy and pre-load the game. I was just so excited they had Mac support (which, last I'd heard, was sort of up in the air I thought).

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The Mac support has always been great for Blizzard games and D3 is no exception. I've been playing the beta in a 2009 MBP for a couple of weeks now and everything looks pretty smooth.

Unlike companies like EA, Blizzard spends real time making sure their Mac offerings are as good as the Windows ones and that is enough for myself to be a supporter.

FWIW the beta had a crash bug on mac where if you go to a certain place (the circle of summoner people that start the quest to get your templar sidekick), it crashes. 100% guaranteed crash. I had to play in bootcamp to get past it.

They fixed it in a later patch. But it wasn't exactly great support if a 100% mac crash bug, in a short beta playthrough, didn't get found/fixed before they pushed the version.

Also, FYI, there are a number of mac-only bugs in Warcraft 3, today. I have to play on bootcamp or wine for various custom maps. And Starcraft 2 has had mac-only mouse bugs (like your cursor disappears in the middle of the game. leave and re-enter fullscreen to fix). Based on patch notes they might have fixed that recently, i haven't checked. It happened pretty often and is obviously very frustrating.

They fixed it in a later patch. But it wasn't exactly great support if a 100% mac crash bug, in a short beta playthrough, didn't get found/fixed before they pushed the version.

I see where you're coming from but I've experienced stuff like this while testing games for all platforms, same thing happened for NWN on Windows. This is what betas are for! :)

I experienced that same SC2 bug for a long time and it's annoying, but when I compare its Mac support to other games (Dragon Age, anything by Valve) I can see how much time Blizzard spends making sure everything works alright.

I've been playing the beta in a 2009 MBP for a couple of weeks now and everything looks pretty smooth.

Question about heat: My wife's MBP (2011) runs what seems to be dangerously hot doing even basic web video and she's worried that D3 will melt it entirely.

It can't. All modern chips have thermal protection. It'll just throttle down if it gets too hot.

Are the fans working alright? I get both of them running at 6k RPM when playing any game (or watching full screen Flash/Silverlight videos) but there's nothing that makes me thing it's unsafe.

Interesting, but you're right now that I think about it. I've never stopped to think about the fact that ALL of their games have always supported both platforms.

Makes me appreciate them even more. :)

Unfortunately awhile back when I looked at that option it requires that they hold you CC info on file for the full year, you cannot prepay it nor use another method.

One of the little gotchas for those who do not like leaving the CC with vendors or choose one time pay options.

Every Blizzard game released in the last 17 years has been released on PC and Mac at the exact same time (as far as I can recall).

Wrong. Diablo 1 had a long wait for Mac.

http://www.diablowiki.net/Diablo_I

Interesting, thanks. I was a dirty Windows user back then.

That's been around since Blizzcon 2011.

Very tempted, but I resisted!

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