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Riot Games shutting down League of Legends for Mac

by Mike Schramm Sep 4th 2011 at 7:30PM

Bad news for League of Legends gamers on the Mac -- after years of teasing about a Mac client for the popular free-to-play title (I even saw it running way back when), Riot has decided to pull the plug on plans to make the game Mac compatible. There has been a beta client floating around for quite a while now, and there were even servers to run with it. But those servers are going down, and Riot has made the decision to put the Mac client on hold indefinitely. Because of this, and even if you have the software, you won't be able to connect to the game from the Mac version.

Bummer. Riot says it can't "guarantee the quality and frequent updates we deliver today on the PC and are expected by our player community" on OS X, and while there is a long-term plan to make the game available on the Mac, it's not going to be ready any time soon. If you do want to play the game on the Mac, you can load up Boot Camp and install the Windows version. But a native client is a no-no for now.

Fortunately, Mac users are going to get reimbursed somewhat: Everyone who has "a majority of your logins come from the Mac client," and is able to log on between September 2 and 6, can click a reward button will get a Champions Pack for free.



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burtthaman

HoN sucks a lot. Bad programming. Super buggy. Dota2 will rape HoN regardless of platform. Also LoL > all of them. Sucks they don't support Mac but it's still a better game regardless.

September 07 2011 at 10:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brent

This is a major bummer to me. I just started playing 3 weeks ago and put in $75-100 buying champion packs and riot points to get to level 13. I never use Boot Camp for anything.

September 06 2011 at 2:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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genomagic

You should be able to get a refund on your RP purchases. Well, Riot claims you will be able to. Hard to say if they will follow through or not.

September 07 2011 at 12:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Asbjørn Ulsberg

I think this is great news. Anyone who thinks League of Legends should be available on OS X needs to try Heroes of Newerth, which is of much higher quality (a portable codebase, available on OS X, Windows and Linux(!) is clear witness to this) and by a company that deeply cares about its customers. Lack of OS X (and Linux) support in League of Legends can only mean more people will continue to play Heroes of Newerth, which is great, since it's the best DotA clone out there, plus it's the only one that will (ever) be available on Linux.

September 05 2011 at 3:08 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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genomagic

Having played both, I infinitely prefer League of Legends, as a game. Not to mention that while the community on both games is generally terrible (a quality of the genre) the mac community in LoL was amazing, even if we were consistently ignored by Riot. I can`t see myself playing HoN even with OSX availability, and I refuse to continue to support Riot after they told us that we aren`t good enough to give them money. I`d have said I preferred Riot as a company to S2 as well, but after their latest stunt of basically screwing part of their customer base, I can`t say that.

This mostly means I`ll either be boot camping other MOBA games, or waiting til dota 2 (which I previously had zero interest in, but Riot managed to fix that).

September 07 2011 at 12:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rygaard

SAD.. how SAD :(

September 05 2011 at 9:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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September 05 2011 at 8:47 AM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply
jonwil2002

What I want to know is why the server backend has to be any different between the Mac and Windows versions of the game.

September 05 2011 at 3:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Simon Falentin

This is good news for HON!

September 05 2011 at 3:39 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
bpenticuff

This is really disappointing to me as someone who has put a lot of money into his "free" game. I know the client or the Mac was unofficial but it ran so much better than the PC client on my iMac...Ug.

Guess I'll have to check out HoN and then Dota 2 when it comes out.

September 05 2011 at 3:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Asbjørn Ulsberg

Heroes of Newerth is definitely worth checking out. It was available for Windows, OS X and Linux on day one and is the best DotA clone out there to date, at least until DotA 2 comes out. The developer, S2 Games, is also the best guys around and their customer service is awesome. They really understand their customers and what they want and keep adding new heroes and features to the game, most of which are community driven (through polls, etc).

September 05 2011 at 4:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Amanvreck

why these are allowd? do they have the user participating in mass riots with police and throwing molotov cocktails at buses, stores etc too? why people buy this and play them and why parents let them?

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September 05 2011 at 1:43 AM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply
JokeyRhyme

Given that Riot uses the cross-platform Adobe Air kit for its development, this is extremely disappointing. It seemed like they wisely picked a cross-platform kit in a world where Windows means less and less, and then forgot the whole point. If your only target is Windows, then surely Microsoft's own XNA with DirectX is superior to anything Adobe produces.

This is a big part of my enjoyment of Heroes of Newerth. I mostly play on a PC, but I appreciate being able to play on my MacBook when necessary. Being able to experience exactly the same graphics effect and game-play in Linux is also encouraging.

Blizzard DotA will no doubt support both Windows and Mac OS X (as StarCraft2 already does), and I expect Valve to support both with DotA 2.

September 04 2011 at 9:09 PM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply
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Asbjørn Ulsberg

Heroes of Newerth is great and will have a (very tiny) edge on DotA 2 when it comes too, since it also works on Linux. :-)

September 05 2011 at 4:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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