18 Aug 2008 - Jade Empire SE for Mac Now Available
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Johnn Four
Web Monkey
Joined: 12 Jan 2004 |
 Posted: Monday, 18 August 2008 04:50PM | |
We are proud to announce that Jade Empire: Special Edition is now available for the Mac platform. This release will retain all the additional features released on the PC version and is now available for download.
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DigitalOrigami
Game Owner
 SW: KotOR Xbox
Jade Empire
Jade Empire:SE
NWN 2
Mass Effect
Joined: 28 Jul 2006
From: Great White North (Beauty, eh?) |
Posted: Monday, 18 August 2008 11:38PM |
Great guys! Thanks for thinking of us mac users. 
Is this download only, or will there be a retail version in stores?
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Rheannan
Game Owner
 NWN
SW: KotOR Xbox
Jade Empire
Joined: 27 Oct 2005
From: Off With the Fairies |
Posted: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 07:12AM |
Quote: Posted 08/18/08 23:38 (GMT) by DigitalOrigami Great guys! Thanks for thinking of us mac users.
Seconded, even though I'm not a Mac user. It's good to see things not sticking to just PC.
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Randall Bishop
Brand Manager
Joined: 06 Nov 2007 |
Posted: Monday, 25 August 2008 07:52PM | |
At this time it is only available to download online. | |
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Diomhdes
Game Owner
 NWN
NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Jade Empire:SE
Joined: 30 Sep 2003 |
Posted: Thursday, 28 August 2008 04:12PM |
I've bought the game last week and played through it twice on a iMac Aluminium (3GHz and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS).
The game performs beautifully. The only option one has to turn off is the antialiasing: it produces a huge lag. But since one can play at the monitor's native resolution (1920*1200), the game looks very good even without that option turned on.
I was a bit wary of "Cider-powered" games before, but obviously for (relatively) older games the graphics of which are not so demanding by today's standards, it works very well.
I have two gripes though.
First, there is no manual included, no PDF, no "read me", nothing: getting a .pdf version of the original game instructions on the disk image would have made my first run through the game much easier. Maybe you could send registered users a link to download such a manual?
Then, there is absolutely no way to register the Mac version in my Bioware account and so to gain access to the "game-owner" content on the JE web site. I need to enter a UPC code supposedly contained in a "read me" file, except that there is no such file included with the Mac version of the game. So instructions on how to proceed to register the Mac version of the game would be welcome.
Thanks again for bringing that game to the Mac.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you. | |
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