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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 3752139" data-attributes="member: 1003">Woo-hoo! All I have to do is buy two operating systems, plus emulation software!  You realize that to emulate Windows I have to buy (1) emulation software, and (2) Windows itself?  Neither Mac nor Linux can emulate DirectX well natively.  And I have to pay more for it than the OEM's (Dell, HP, etc.) do when building a PC.  It would cost over $200 to implement on my Mac, and that's before the DDI subscription.Yes, but that's the point: Pay to "redevelop".  My question is: why was it developed on a Windows-only platform in the first place?  The moment someone said "Let's use DirectX" they knew that there would be re-development costs for porting the system to non-Windows systems.This is especially troublesome in a game that depends on group play.  An established D&D group with say, 5-7 members (4-6 players, plus DM) which has one non-Windows user will have to choose between (1) the entire group not using DDI, and (2) excluding their non-conforming player from online play.  Isn't that lovely.So what WotC has done here is create a system that either (1) denies WotC the DDI subscriber fees for entire groups (bad for shareholders), or (2) encourage groups to purge their non-Windows players (bad for everyone).So pardon me if I take a moment to point out the less than smart choices WotC has chosen to make here.</blockquote>