• World of Warcraft Nixes PowerPC Mac Support

    World of Warcraft Nixes PowerPC Mac Support

    Techtree News Staff, Sep 01, 2010 1734 hrs IST

    An upcoming patch will remove PPC Mac support irrespective of WoW game version

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Blizzard has announced that it will stop support for PowerPC based Apple Mac systems for its heavily popular MMORPG game - World of Warcraft. The announcement was made a few hours ago in the Mac Technical Support Section of World of Warcraft forums. A patch would be released to nix the same before the third expansion pack - Cataclysm arrives. This might dishearten PowerPC based Mac owners.

Blizzard is apparently dropping support for older Macs stating that Apple itself has been focusing on Intel Macs since 2005. As per Blizzard Forum Staff S4d1k, "So since 5 years, PPC systems has received very few bug fixes. It is now too hard to deal with all the bugs and the lack of features to support the few PPC users that we have left."

Of course here, the staff is pointing out important updates related to graphics, key system extensions and framework of the PowerPC Mac systems. At this moment, Apple releases only security updates for old PowerPC based Mac Systems and even the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard won't run on PowerPC based Macs.

World of Warcraft is one of the heavily played MMORPG games that gets a major expansion packs every year. To cope with new technologies, game developers have to drop support for old and extinct hardware. We're sure that number of users who're addicted and true followers of the game would upgrade their machines. The patch, in the near future would be automatically applied for any user on PowerPC Mac running Burning Crusade or Wrath or Lich King.






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Baltimore Media
,Baltimore, on Apr 23, 2011 05:34 PM
Ok, so PowerPC users paid full price for a game at like $50 that is now disabled by the manufacturer? Isn't that like Ford selling you a car and then disabling the engine 5 years later? I'm trying to figure out how they can get away with this legally without a class action lawsuit. Intel & PPC buyers of World of Warcraft BOTH paid the SAME amount of money for the game. If the game was given away for free and with a subscription and TOS, they would be on solid legal grounds. But selling an item that you then deliberately disable sounds like outright fraud to me. I'd like to see what the legal precedent for this is. I don't own any other PPC game that has done this.
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Deltonis Holly
,Phoenix, on Oct 30, 2010 04:43 PM
Yes, Bunch of Bullshit. Hey, it time to go back to playing all those PPC games we (powerpc users) drop to the waist side for WOW. The reason we played was we didnt have that many games on PowerPC Macs. If Blizzard want me to buy a intel mac, to play their game. Well we can play all the pc games on intel mac no need to play WOW
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Pissed off ppc
,somewhere, on Oct 18, 2010 04:41 AM
This is bullshit.
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