As with anything, it comes down to market share. MAC simply does not have the market share that makes development/publishing worth while. I think someplace recently, they only have 14% of the PC Market Share. It just isn't economically feasible to create (not port) for Macintosh. What stops games from running on MAC native? It's Apple. Not the developers of PC, because the guts to a MAC are that of a PC, with older hardware. Upset that stuff isn't written for MAC? Complain to the mighty Apple. They're the ones that stifle you. Not the PC industry. It's actually economically more feasible to write for Linux proper, than writing for MAC's.

Each Race has an impact on network flow and load times as well as lag. Read a discussion where developers figured out, that if you just changed the eyes, would increase load times by 2% per race. So add 10% more races, expect 20% increased load times, just for an additional mouth.

Velociraptor Drive with SSD for pagefile. Load times are 20-30 seconds. Get a computer.

lol yeah me too. I'm not on what I consider a high end machine, but 1920x1080, AA set to 8x with driver, all graphics setting set too "High" I too pull 60fps (monitor bottleneck) in fleet. OP does not have a "modern machine" in 2012...... not close.

I'm overclocked 30% hotter on my CPU, and nearly 40% overclock on my 560ti. I never shut down, never lock up, never crash, and my fans are sitting at 50% speed. People that say software kills hardware, don't understand hardware. OR computers, or overclocking. Go get a console.

Last I checked, you only need 4 for a group. 80-100-5000 people on server.... you still only need 3 others. You can't find 3 other people to play with? And I click PVP button count to 30 and we fill up.

Look, putting the game on the SSD helps. But if you want to improve performance overall, for this, and your OS. Install an SSD and set it for your page file. I get no load lag, no micro stutter. Just putting the game on the SSD, and not moving your pagefile, you are still bottlenecking when it pages stuff out to disk. derp

you know you have to pay for that engine. For the ability to transfer to it for $100 .... and I can assure you, it's in the 10's of thousands of dollars. What say you?

And as an "Indie Developer" you should understand the financial repercussions regarding development cycles, licensing, testing, distribution, server coding, and Return on Investment. Technical reasons and financial reasons are two different things. Why would a company just re-do a whole complete/complex client / server platform just because someone said another engine is "better". I'm sure the bean counters and investors would just love to double their development costs with no additional ROI just because another engine is "better". Tell you what? Whatever car you drive, buy an Engine from BMW and put it in your car, at your own expense. Why? Because it's better.

all you have to do is heal someone that is PvP flagged. and ta-da. You're flagged too. Been that way forever and ever.

Contrary to what the Wal-Mart / Kmart thought process. There is NO law on the books stating that any retailer MUST offer a refund. Walmart and that ilk makes people think that they have the right to return a product for a refund. They do it for customer service reasons only. No company is required to give you any money back for any reason. With the exception of the Lemon Law that some states have for NEW cars. Other than that, buyer beware.

This is EXACTLY True 100%.... well said.

Can't be done. Remember, the OP said The Game broke the card. Not the drivers. The discussion has morphed to drivers. So in this case (if possible) was that specific code was included with the game, to by pass, or remove, and install itself at the driver/hardware level, that burns out the card. Lets say it was done..... for giggles. The card would just heat up, to the point of thermal shutdown, it would lock, and memory dump your pc. After reboot, your card would simply come back. If thermal doesn't happen, then it's been turned off in BIOS somehow. But, the driver would have to have elevated privledges, and the OS (even without UAC) would stop you for confirmation to replace drivers. Modern OS's are designed to halt such an operation. The card is in constant communication with the OS, there are checks and balances built in. I'm saying this simply cannot happen without the users knowledge while playing a game. No way.

What drivers you using? If you haven't updated your drivers, this statement is meaningless. If your drivers are dated prior to Mon Oct 24, 2011, then the game isn't the problem.

So somehow, Bioware, created a special module, written to inject itself into the driver levels of the card, bypassing the Operating System, to kill a customers computer, so they can't play a game they make a profit. Sounds logical.