D3 was mostly about graphics, with a still very simple character leveling system. While D2 was mostly about "bigger", it brought some nice features. The Diablo games made some progress since the original release over 25 years ago. I need to say few things about Diablo IV. And as I said, if I'd start now for my use cases, it would costs a pretty penny to do it while using Linux/Nvidia is essentially free. The problem is, no one wants to be the first. In order to change this, we'd need everyone on board right now. More complicated switching from PPC to Intel, but still not as problematic as the current hardware switch or the preparation for it when they decided to go Metal. Sure, things were much "simpler" when the switch from 68k to PPC happened. This might change in a couple of years, who knows, but right now the whole Apple software eco system is in the worst share I've ever seen it in. it's cheaper than porting and maintaining. It doesn't even really matter what it costs to buy non-Apple hardware, 10k, 100k, 1M. Instead of bothering porting things over, it's much much cheaper to just buy Lenovo/Dell/whatever hardware with Linux and a Nvidia GPU and be done with it. The end users not just surfing the web, cutting videos or working on photos are screwed right now. Don't get me wrong, I do like what Apple is doing and I think it's the future. While x86/AMD GPU Macs were very limited for my use cases, AS changed this to make M1 Macs a major pain. While I'd like to see support, I can't blame anyone for not doing it. All other systems including consoles have one thing in common, they can run OpenGL/Vulkan, while Windows (with a much much larger user base) will probably use DirectX, but could use OpenGL/Vulkan. No other system, no console requires Metal. They didn't want to get locked out by Apple while establishing their own closed eco system. Nvidia shut the door and didn't play along. They got AMD to play along in the x86 world knowing they would dump them later on. Click to expand.Modern macOS requires Metal, on x86 or ARM.
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