
Yet another MMO on the Mac --
EVE Online and
World of Warcraft are already there, of course, and now NCSoft has announced that
City of Heroes is coming to the Mac. Unfortunately, they're using Transgaming's Cider software to port the game, and as we've said before, the software
isn't only unreliable, but
it's got the dreaded SecuROM DRM attached*, as well. Not to mention that even the MacBook can basically
run any game through BootCamp now, making a separate Mac version unnecessary in many cases.
But there is one thing we really like about this release, and that's that NCSoft is actually releasing the game on the Mac as a "special edition": players who buy the Mac expansion (which apparently will be a digital-only release) will pick up a free ingame teleporter item, as well as a special "Valkyrie" costume set usable on their superhero character. So if you do go for Transgaming's software, at least you can pick up some free ingame stuff for it. We're not so much for the
DRM-laden emulation, but the free stuff we do like.
There's no set release date yet (they say it'll launch with
the game's upcoming "Issue 13" update), but they're
taking applications right now for an open beta, so if you're interested, sign on up.
[via
Massively]
Update: NCSoft has contacted us to say that the Mac Special Edition of
City of Heroes will not contain the SecuROM DRM. It was our understanding that all Transgaming releases would use the technology, but NCSoft says that theirs won't, so there you go.