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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HatWearingFool" data-source="post: 3774847" data-attributes="member: 54658">A couple of things...I work as a programmer for a Post Secondary Education Institute in Canada. And I can tell you that around here Mac sales among students are literally sky-rocketing. Our institution and others that we keep in touch with are all in the same boat. Our services for students are now being re-written to work with multiple platforms due to increasing demand from our customers. Although many services have been moved to the web using standards in the last 5 years so this isn't that bad of a situation for us. So while many older people might not know someone one with a mac let me assure you many University or College goers sure seem to. Regardless as to the debate about whether or not cross-platform development costs more. I think most people with a software development background would agree that since WOTC has already committed to DirectX the costs involved in any future cross-platform porting will be considerable. It is very costly to attempt to make software targeted at one platform platform agnostic. So I don't think it's realistic to expect a Mac or Linux port. In fact I would expect that if they were to decide to support other OS's they would decide to simply rewrite everything form scratch to be platform agnostic. However, if you are still hopeful for a port of the DDI software I have this piece of advice. Every person who uses a hack (virtual machine, wine, bootcamp, etc) has voted for the status quo. Why should WOTC bother to make a native version for you if you are willing to pay for a sub-par experience? This is the problem with these solutions, there very existence removes the motivation for companies to make native ports of their software. I have chosen to use VMware Fusion and Bootcamp to allow me to run critical software on my mac. Since I do not consider DDI to be critical and I wish to get a native port of the software I will not be using either of these solutions to run DDI. Instead I will probably sign up for DDI for one month and then cancel my subscription with a email to WOTC explaining why (lack of support for my platform of choice). I believe that WOTC will be more inclined to listen to someone who has proved that they wish to be paying customer than some anonymous ranter on the the internet. Also if many alternate platform users did the same it WOTC could actually see how much money they are missing out on. It's hard for them to quantify how many people are waiting for a native port to sign-up.Hopefully I've made my arguments against using workarounds clear. I have no problem if you are the user of an alternate OS and are willing to live with some kind of workaround. I just don't want to hear these same people complaining about not getting a port after they vote (with their money) to support the status quo.</blockquote>

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