Dragon Age: Origins coming to Mac as a digital download December 21st

Have purchased this game on Mac and could not been happier - lower 13 inch unibody MBP runs this game wonderful. Comparing it to a BootCamp Windows version I ran before - seems faster, plus I have the ability to easily switch to Mac and back whenever I want.

So whomever had bad track record with this kind of ports, I'd scratch it as outdated. Rock solid game.

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It will be a very long time before I even consider buying another EA port for Mac.
Last game I bought was The Sims 3. It ran like a piece of shit on my mid '09 unibody MBP. So i tried it in bootcamp and, oh wonder, it ran just fine. max gfx settings and everything was smooth.

Stay away from crappy EA ports is really everything i can say

I already pre-ordered the deluxe edition from direct2drive and they allow me to redownload apps forever it seems, I still have hitman 2 on there available to download.

I downloaded a "demo" of DA and I love the game immensely and I have yet to try out any of the Transgaming apps, So I wanted to see just how big of a performance hit it takes vs running it in windows natively.

My unibody mbp run DA awesomely in windows with graphics all on high. So i'm thinking it should run decently with the Transgaming stuff, because Steam apps run well in crossover games too.

Notworksafe, you will be able to get the game from Direct2drive, which pretty much has the same DRM as Steam. Unlimited downloads.

I'm really disappointed with EA and their so called "return to the Mac" as stated by one of their higherups at Macworld 2007. All we have gotten is somewhat poor running Cider ports, and poor support. More then 2 years later, this continues with Dragon Age. Instead of announcing the Mac version alongside the PC, PS3, and 360 versions, Mac users were left in the cold during the main marketing blitz. So odds are, those who really wanted the game either bought a console version, or run bootcamp and bought the PC version.

Why is this bad? Well, EA will look at the numbers, and go "well, the Mac version of Dragon Age didn't sell well" and possibly not port future games. And sadly they probably won't realize that it didn't sell well on the Mac because noone knew it was coming. There were even posts on the official Dragon Age forums denying a Mac version.

*sigh*

If companies really want to invest in the platform, they should do it properly. Blizzard does native ports, day 1 Mac releases, and hybrid disks. Beyond that, NCSoft also used Cider to bring City of Heroes to the Mac. When they did, they also shipped new hybrid discs to stores as well. Somehow I doubt EA will go back and make hybrid Dragon Age discs.

Blizzard has pretty much guaranteed themselves my future gaming revenue. EA on the other hand just keeps finding ways to push me away.

"don't exactly have the best track record" and the link is from two years ago?

Are you saying that this technology did not evolve over the last two years?

Do you follow the tech industry at all?

Can't we just make a cider port of the game ourselves ?

I'll probably stick to the Steam version. Their DRM is much less of a pain then the EA downloader's.

Also...digital download? Is there a type of download that isn't digital?

This is one violent game! Still fun to play.