Awakening For Macintosh
Jan 22
The Entertainment Software Rating Board, short ESRB, now lists the Mac version of Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening as well.
Only recently Mac users had the chance to put their hands on Dragon Age: Origins, and the official press release by BioWare early this year did not mention any love for the Mac, but had an Apple icon on the product’s webpage; The confusion was there, wether or not Macintosh users would get the expansion. Although an official statement by BioWare/EA is still missing, consider the recent ESRB listing as official.
Awakening will be released in March 2010.
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11 comments
Comment by Omegakain on January 22, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Finally. although most of us mac users probably had the windows version running on boot camp or at least i did. still, its nice to see the mac get some love.
Comment by TheDukester on January 22, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Exactly my thoughts. The game is still plenty of fun running on Boot Camp, but I wouldn't mind being able to play it right out of the box without having to switch over.
Comment by Illiani on January 22, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Nice KotDT avatar. :)
Comment by @txa1265 on January 23, 2010 at 3:09 am
I am still waiting for the 1.02 patch and any confirmation that we will even get the Return to Ostagar.
NWN2 was an abysmal example of awful performance coupled with terrible support … I just hope this is somewhat better … but at least the performance on my MBP is really good.
Comment by Illiani on January 23, 2010 at 4:03 am
PC Patch 1.02 has been out for a little while now and NWN2 was obsidian, not BioWare, so fingers crossed.
As for Return to Dramagar, we are all waiting on news.
Comment by @txa1265 on January 23, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Mac patch 1.02 is NOT available, that was my point. Not blaming Bioware for NWN2, but so far we have Bioware and EA and Transgaming all giving Mac gamers the run-around when it comes to dealing with issues and answering questions.
Comment by LJW on January 26, 2010 at 4:49 pm
I do not see a mac patch until the next PC patch. I am running this game under snow leopard – so I am glad the expansion is coming for it. I agree a patch for mac is needed but for the most part it runs really well on my mbp as well. As for RTO it will be coming out for mac – though likely not at the same time – although even for PC this thing is looking like vapourware – PC owners cannot even get a date of when this is actually coming out.
Comment by @txa1265 on January 27, 2010 at 12:05 am
Do you have solid confirmation that RTO is coming? Nothing official *I* have seen … heck, there is no confirmation we'll *ever* see 1.02! As for Awakening, what we have is an ESRB listing – and those have been wrong billions of times before.
So no confirmation of Patch, no confirmation of RTO, no confirmation of Awakening.
I am hopeful, but without confirmation I am not making any assumptions.
Comment by CaK on January 27, 2010 at 12:32 am
BioWare officially announced Return to Ostagar on Nov. 19th. Read here:
Comment by @txa1265 on January 29, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Sadly your links are all broken, and come up like this:
http://greywardens.com/2009/11/new-dlc-return-to-…
But I dug through and found them.
OK, so the announcement doesn't mention Mac, which is not surprising since it didn't arrive until late December.
The latest Return to Ostagar news item announced the X360 version, and mentions the PC and PS3 versions as pending. No mention of the Mac, which to me indicates it is no longer pending or even in a state that they consider it worth an update as related to the other platforms.
DLC situation is still completely unresolved. As of last update post-release DLC is incompatible with Mac, and barring any new details that still includes RtO.
Awakenings has a Mac icon because the bottom portion of the page is shared with the generic Dragon Age graphic.
And most troubling is that there has been *NO* Bioware presence on the Mac forum since the creation. While there have been loads of updates on the PC and consoles by official folks, NOTHING from EA/Bioware/Transgaming has been said on the Mac forum.
Based on all of that – and a history of too many games simply lazily ported with a Cider wrapper and then ignored – leads me to say, please Bioware, PROVE you are different in this case, because all evidence points to yet another case of Mac RPG abandonware.
Comment by LJW on January 30, 2010 at 6:54 am
I share your concern – all the info I have is what the above person pointed at – I spoke with a rep a transgaming and they said they are working on a way to give RTO / further DLC and Awakening to mac users and are committed to doing so – signs show that the RTO will not be out at the same time (obviously)- until they work out how to provide DLC to mac users and then everything should be released the same day. That is all info I have. I am also still skeptical and I hope they do prove that they are different and not forget about people actually using the mac version. This is a great game and I want to be able to use it on OSX!