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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 3710885" data-attributes="member: 2525">Continual comparisons to the largest online game company on the planet isn't useful.They have over 7 million users. They are a devoted software company.&nbsp; They always have been, and they have always had a LOT more users than D&amp;D, and a lot more focus on the issue than D&amp;D, and it makes sense for them to do things in a more costly way up front for payoffs that can come years later (even in other products).Y'all have got to quit the comparisons to Blizzard.&nbsp; This isn't that.&nbsp; This is a normal everyday piece of software intended for a rather limited number of people.&nbsp; It doesn't pay off to invest more up front for some possible benefits to cross-products down the road, or in some department you think has been created to last a long time.&nbsp; There IS no scale here that benefits from such investments.&nbsp; It's a relatively small piece of gaming software, and the economics dictate it's not practical to make it cross platform.Does it really make sense to compare the biggest online gaming company on the planet to an app that WOTC uses for one of it's products? Come on guys, you know it doesn't.&nbsp; Be a bit more realistic here.&nbsp; It's not that big a deal to switch to your Windows OS on your Mac.&nbsp; And if your Mac is so old it cannot do that, you're probably in the same boat as many PC users who cannot use the software because their computers are not new enough to handle the specs either.&nbsp; If you have a relatively new computer, either Mac or PC, you can use it.&nbsp; If you don't, you can't.&nbsp; Seems fair to me.&nbsp; Seems like how an awful lot of games run, to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 3710885, member: 2525"] Continual comparisons to the largest online game company on the planet isn't useful. They have over 7 million users. They are a devoted software company. They always have been, and they have always had a LOT more users than D&D, and a lot more focus on the issue than D&D, and it makes sense for them to do things in a more costly way up front for payoffs that can come years later (even in other products). Y'all have got to quit the comparisons to Blizzard. This isn't that. This is a normal everyday piece of software intended for a rather limited number of people. It doesn't pay off to invest more up front for some possible benefits to cross-products down the road, or in some department you think has been created to last a long time. There IS no scale here that benefits from such investments. It's a relatively small piece of gaming software, and the economics dictate it's not practical to make it cross platform. Does it really make sense to compare the biggest online gaming company on the planet to an app that WOTC uses for one of it's products? Come on guys, you know it doesn't. Be a bit more realistic here. It's not that big a deal to switch to your Windows OS on your Mac. And if your Mac is so old it cannot do that, you're probably in the same boat as many PC users who cannot use the software because their computers are not new enough to handle the specs either. If you have a relatively new computer, either Mac or PC, you can use it. If you don't, you can't. Seems fair to me. Seems like how an awful lot of games run, to me. [/QUOTE]

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