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[Cougar]

This was inevitable as it is a Unity game and Wizards had said that they want the game on as many platforms as possible. But, MTG Arena has a formal Mac announcement now. https://magic.wizard...nter-2019-08-19

Been playing since the Alpha and it’s quite good. Super polished interface, full control. Mostly fair FTP mechanics though drafts could be cheaper.

Hope iOS is next...

[Camper-Hunter]

Sadly it's yet another EGS exlusive. Though you can still download directly from the developer's site, so that's not the worse.

[Janichsan]

The Mac news is a less surprising than it sounds: there was a statement by an official very early on, even before the public beta launched, that a Mac version was definitely planned, but wouldn't be coming before the game is out of Early Access. Which seems to be the case now. Mobile versions are also on their roadmap.

As for the EGS "exclusity": Meh. There's still the standalone version, so who cares?

[Camper-Hunter]

Janichsan, on 20 August 2019 - 01:31 PM, said:

There's still the standalone version, so who cares?

People who prefer their games on Steam, for whatever reason (community and friends, achievements, preferred launcher, more interesting sales overall, etc.).

[Janichsan]

Camper-Hunter, on 20 August 2019 - 03:25 PM, said:

People who prefer their games on Steam, for whatever reason (community and friends, achievements, preferred launcher, more interesting sales overall, etc.).

I meant in this specific case. MTG Arena uses it's own matchmaking. It has its own friends list. It's F2P and the only purchaseable thing connected to it is in-game currency (which never really go on sale on Steam for comparable games). And if you really want Steam to launch it and use the Steam community features in-game, you can easily add the stand-alone version to it.

[macdude22]

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