Bring Overworld Back to Mac — Don’t Leave Supporters Behind 🔥

[pliant sand]

Hey Illuvium team and community,

I’m a long-time Illuvium supporter and bought a more powerful Mac a while ago in part to play Overworld. I was beyond excited for the latest update — ready to explore, hunt, and finally use my fuel and blueprints from my plot in Illuvium Zero to craft skins. But I hit a wall: Mac support is gone.

Here’s the thing — macOS was supported from the beginning. A working version existed. Now as Mac users we’re left in the lurch, unable to play the game we backed and believed in.

I understand resources are tight, but Illuvium needs all the support it can get — and Mac users are an important part of this community ( @weak basin, @zenith tusk, @snow plank , @lucid sphinx , @worthy drift ...). Even @hard plaza can’t play Overworld due to the lack of Mac updates — and he has done so much for Illuvium.

Please consider bringing back Mac support. We’re asking for a path back into the world we support.

[weak basin]

Would love that ❤️

[clear osprey]

Agreed, this is yet another "promise made, promise easily broken" branding that Illuvium has become known for.

[neon gull]

i feel for eveyone owning just apple products.
But there is very good reasoning pausing the mac support.
The amount of dev time is insane to have access to the 1% playerbase owning mac's
And if we short on anything, it's devtime.

[clear osprey]

I understand from that perspective. A company spending $1.5M/month or $500K/mo could communicate such material matters much better IMO.

[neon gull]

what are you looking for?

[clear osprey]

I would say the Dev blog could serve as a practical means that exists but was practically abandoned after Aaron said he would regularly contribute to it in August. Then, Aaorn never made another post. A material change such as this in the product should be communicated by the chief executives as to why the strategy changed if you want to be perceived as professional and trustworthy in the future management of the company.

[neon gull]

so you would rather have a blog than an announcement?

[clear osprey]

My view is that OW pause should have been handled and communicated professionally by the admins. The "branding reputational cost" for the DAO is probably in the millions because of the way it was handled (no way to quantify it). In addressing the OW pivot, they should have addressed matters such as MacOS no longer being supported and why.

[neon gull]

there was an announcement that macOS support is paused and why.

[clear osprey]

in discord?

[neon gull]

#📣〕announcements message

[pliant sand]

Do we know it is 1%?

[neon gull]

Usually it is between 1-3% of the playerbase according to different studios and ai

[pliant sand]

Forgive me, but a 9 word why " to streamline development and reduce bugs for all players". It doesn't reduce bugs for "all" players, not Mac users 😦

[pliant sand]

I understand that may be an industry observation. But I am curious if we know what it is for Illuvium specifically - numbers of downloads from Epic Games Launcher for Mac vs PC before Dec 2024? Maybe it is in alignment with other studios like you mention. What is usual in other contexts doesn't always apply, that is why I was wondering if we had actual numbers for Illuvium.

[neon gull]

Numbers for illuvium haven't been Made public.
But i guess it also applied here.

The roughly 1-3% is over many different Genres and Studios. No reason to believe that for illuvium those numbers Look drastically different.
I also don't think they paused it if they would have Cut Off half the playerbase.

[pliant sand]

You're right, I'm just annoyed 😠

[neon gull]

Yea, i totally get the frustration

It's also not forever, i guess they will take it back in the dev cycle, but probably not anytime soon

[pliant sand]

Patience is a virtue as they say