Bad Company 2 may head to Mac

By Robert Purchese Published 10 March, 2010

DICE "investigating" adaptation now.

DICE may adapt Battlefield: Bad Company 2 to the Mac.

"We're currently investigating the possibility of making BFBC2 available on Mac," Tweeted Karl Magnus Troedsson, executive producer.

"Mighty hangover after a legendary release party for BFBC2 last night," he later added.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was released last Friday, taking home 9/10 from Eurogamer and a spot atop the UK All Formats Chart this week.

Magnus' update follows Valve's announcement that Steam will be available to Mac users next month.

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  • Krusty #1 2 years ago

    Would be good if they could, and take advantage of Steam Play ofc.

    The more games that get ported the more likely it is that Apple will think harder about increasing the speed of good GPU adoption, and maybe some 5.1 supporting sound cards whilst they're at it :D

    Then rather than build my next PC I'd consider a Mac Pro...

  • themorganator #2 2 years ago

    Great news! The steam announcement is covered in win, too!

  • the_mtfr #3 2 years ago

    I hope they don't just ignorantly sign with fucking Transgaming to make the port, like EA did before. If they want emulation they should open up their eyes and go with Codeweavers, but a native port would be much better. Would be much easier then to port to Linux.

  • tesco #4 2 years ago

    I would suggest they focus on fixing the current PC release first. Server browsers, random disconnects, missing animations, strange textures, lag issues, PB issues, friends lists, veteran status, play now button....

  • flaming.carrot #5 2 years ago

    @Krusty - The Mac Pro has has digital optical audio right from launch, so it can do 5:1 surround right out of the box (if your surround system has toslink input of course), or you can add in any USB audio card as long as it supports core audio to achieve the same via USB.

    You're right about the GPUs, though there are some decent build to order graphics card upgrades available from Apple when you initially buy the computer.

  • ignatiusjreilly #6 2 years ago

    The Mac Pro has has digital optical audio right from launch, so it can do 5:1 surround right out of the box

    For games, 5.1 through optical requires that the soundcard supports Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect, and I don't think any Macs support that by default. A new soundcard could fix that I'm sure.
    Edited by 1 at 10/03/10 @ 09:46

  • Krusty #7 2 years ago

    Yea, the optical out cannot be used for games, even in Bootcamp from what I've been reading.
    Of course you can use an external soundcard, but that's not very Macish is it? :)

    And whilst the GPU situation is better you still can't match my (now quite old) 4870x2 let alone the 5870's etc.

  • Les #8 2 years ago

    All games for Mac OS X are welcomed as far as I'm concerned. Hope the Creative Assembly takes notice... ;)

  • sneetch #9 2 years ago

    Good to see. It'd be good if Windows had some competition on the "PC" front; it might force Microsoft to support PC better (Alan Wake, I'm looking at you).

  • makeamazing #10 2 years ago

    The only issue with Macs is that they are considerably more expensive than a PC. Though hopefully with more game support, more people will use them, thereby making it cheaper.

    Ive just moved to a Mac for my main machine, and though i was going to use the PS3 for most of my gaming needs, its great that i will still be able to play some games on it (though the graphics card is only 256mb ram, unlike my PC 1GB monster).

  • BobsUncle #11 2 years ago

    PC gaming 'Rigs' are expensive enough, can you imagine the price of a Mac one?

  • tesco #12 2 years ago

    makeamazing, do you really think they are expensive due to a lack of economies of scale?! Believe me, they produce enough to make them cheaper if they so wished.

  • Zomoniac #13 2 years ago

    Given every Mac capable of running it can run Windows, and given that, if all other Mac game prices are anything to go by, you could buy a copy of Windows and the PC version for less than the price of the Mac version, I can't really see the point.

  • Les #14 2 years ago

    "makeamazing, do you really think they are expensive due to a lack of economies of scale?! Believe me, they produce enough to make them cheaper if they so wished."

    Both positions are true in a sense. As volume goes up, individual component prices go down. Apple will put as much of it as possible in its own pockets, like any company would. And as they don't have a true competitor (yet?) in their (expanding) niche, they're able to keep more of that to themselves than a generic PC builder like Dell or HP could. But while Apple will never become a price fighter, a part of such economies of scale will be transferred to the consumers as well. Most likely in the form of increased spec of their models rather than outright lower prices. Apple doesn't want its PCs to become commodities.