Mac optimization, iPad Pro optimization, and some Mac bugs, and please, please, fix fullscreen on Mac.
Mac game really needs improvement. (I have a MacBook Pro M1 with MacOS Monterey)
Recent bugs:
The text in menu buttons will not show up.
The app won't launch from the dock shortcut, have to launch from inside epic client.
Two-finger swiping on the touchpad doesn't work, it pretty much only scrolls in one direction, it just goes wild.
Sometimes going in and out of the app it will stop playing sound, or some other problem.
It is just ridiculous that the fullscreen mode clips the sides of the screens. It only recently got full screen. Windowed doesn't seem to let you resize and now it's a tiny window, like Arena for ants. This should have been done correctly at launch, like every other app on my Mac.
The game should be optimized for Apple silicon. Like other apps optimized for M1, it should be available on the Mac App Store as a native Mac App. This would have countless improvements for Apple users like better battery life, not taxing the hardware needlessly, and an all around smoother, seamless experience. But Wizards has made a deal with Epic. So one can assume that this kind of sloppy and unfriendly design will be a staple of this game going forward, since Epic has needlessly declared themselves the enemy of Apple and it's user base. Using the Epic Games client does nothing for me, the consumer. I hate it. I don't want to use it. That's why I paid $1500 for a Mac, so I can use Mac Apps, from the Mac App Store.
iPad and iPhone games could also do a lot more, including 5G optimization.
The resolutions are pathetic. iPad Pro users are running the same high powered M1 chips as desktop Macs, but getting pixelated artwork, and android phone animations. Hearthstone looked and played better than this on an iPad in 2016. The app is only "optimized for iPad" because the the android app was resized.
I didn't use Magic Online because I own Apple products. I am not buying a PC.
If you want my money, you need to make apps that work well on Apple's platforms.
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Virtyou#54728
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Adding some images to help since this has almost been a year. I can't see the text on my menus sometimes, and recently I haven't been able to see card text, just keywords for certain card styles.
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bobby_z#33732
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your mac client is broken to the point of not running. it's been crashing every time i load it since the second innistrad set dropped. i'm losing half the games i launch to the client glitching out and freezing. i'm well within the hardware requirements. i'm not exaggerating, look at my profile record. it's every time i load the client, including just now. it's frustrating to an extreme degree, as i've invested a bunch of money into having a collection. that collection has been unuseable for 2 months now. i monitor arena through activity monitor, and it's obvious that you have a memory leak in your mac client. if you're not going to fix it, at least tell us, so i can completely stop giving you money for it, thanks.
