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Any hope for me to carry on playing WoW - Diablo 3 - Warcraft 3 Reforged - Diablo 4 with my many close friends?

Apple this is a 2 part question.


1) I've just sent this to Microsoft Blizzard...


"I'm 49 years old now and a disabled gamer and a Mac user. I've been playing Warcraft 3 since I was 15 then WoW then Diablo 3 and Warcraft 3 Reforged all on Mac for over 30 years I've so many close friends in Warcraft and Diablo... I even play Diablo 4 on my Mac via Crossover and I've literally spent thousands upon thousands future-proving my Mac Pros over the years. Warcraft and Diablo are my life really. I dont care about WoW Classic but is it true that from 2027 onwards you are stopping me from playing Warcraft 3: Reforged - World of Wracraft Retail - Diablo 3 with my friends via my Mac after 30+ Years? And if so than is there any Mac workaround because Window drives me nuts I cant use it. Please dont end my gaming life and dont make me loose my friends.... Even if I cant play after World of Warcraft: The Last Titan could you preserver every Mac thing thats come before? Please Microsoft Blizzard dont say its true and please dont be this heartless there must be a way?"


Apple is this true?


2) At first I wasn't worried as I thought I could use Crossover 26 but Crossover uses Rosetta which I hear Apple is dropping support for in 2027. Is there any way at all or a workaround for me to use Crossover or anything so I can carry on playing Warcraft and Diablo with my friends? I just need a bit of hope.


Thanks

Kain

Mac Pro, macOS 27.0

Posted on Sep 17, 2026 1:58 PM

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Posted on Sep 18, 2026 8:36 PM

KainsTorment wrote:
2) At first I wasn't worried as I thought I could use Crossover 26 but Crossover uses Rosetta which I hear Apple is dropping support for in 2027. Is there any way at all or a workaround for me to use Crossover or anything so I can carry on playing Warcraft and Diablo with my friends? I just need a bit of hope.

As long as you don't use macOS 28+, then you can continue using your games until those games no longer support the older operating systems. Keep in mind that many third party developers will only support the three most recent versions of macOS (occasionally the fourth recent OS will still be supported as well for part of the year).


Your beef is actually with Blizzard and any other third party game developers because it is up to them to support their products on macOS. Unfortunately most game developers focus on Windows and various dedicated game consoles. I've never considered macOS to be a gaming platform. Yes, from time to time over the years third party game developers may release their games for macOS (or contracted a third party to develop a macOS port ....many times the online component was not fully compatible with the Windows version)....with real actual macOS native support.


CrossOver, WINE, Proton, and others are all third party community efforts (aka hacks) to take a Windows app and allow it to run on another non-Windows OS. This is and always has been a hack job with varying degrees of success & reliability. It is great when it works, but it tends to break from time to time. Much more so with Apple hardware & macOS where Apple has no interest in maintaining such compatibility hacks. Consider all such hacks as "use at your own risk" especially if you are buying software on an unsupported system & you don't have a compatible Windows system to fall back to.


FYI, I've dealt with these issues for Linux systems since 2000 (I already owned the software and wanted to migrate completely to Linux so I didn't have to dual boot.....dual booting was the only reliable way to play those Windows only games). I later got a games console to get away from the constant hardware upgrades and DRM hacks & root kits the game publishers & developers were putting onto my computer so I could ditch Windows completely.



You need to provide your feedback to Blizzard and Microsoft who currently owns Blizzard.

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Sep 18, 2026 8:36 PM in response to KainsTorment

KainsTorment wrote:
2) At first I wasn't worried as I thought I could use Crossover 26 but Crossover uses Rosetta which I hear Apple is dropping support for in 2027. Is there any way at all or a workaround for me to use Crossover or anything so I can carry on playing Warcraft and Diablo with my friends? I just need a bit of hope.

As long as you don't use macOS 28+, then you can continue using your games until those games no longer support the older operating systems. Keep in mind that many third party developers will only support the three most recent versions of macOS (occasionally the fourth recent OS will still be supported as well for part of the year).


Your beef is actually with Blizzard and any other third party game developers because it is up to them to support their products on macOS. Unfortunately most game developers focus on Windows and various dedicated game consoles. I've never considered macOS to be a gaming platform. Yes, from time to time over the years third party game developers may release their games for macOS (or contracted a third party to develop a macOS port ....many times the online component was not fully compatible with the Windows version)....with real actual macOS native support.


CrossOver, WINE, Proton, and others are all third party community efforts (aka hacks) to take a Windows app and allow it to run on another non-Windows OS. This is and always has been a hack job with varying degrees of success & reliability. It is great when it works, but it tends to break from time to time. Much more so with Apple hardware & macOS where Apple has no interest in maintaining such compatibility hacks. Consider all such hacks as "use at your own risk" especially if you are buying software on an unsupported system & you don't have a compatible Windows system to fall back to.


FYI, I've dealt with these issues for Linux systems since 2000 (I already owned the software and wanted to migrate completely to Linux so I didn't have to dual boot.....dual booting was the only reliable way to play those Windows only games). I later got a games console to get away from the constant hardware upgrades and DRM hacks & root kits the game publishers & developers were putting onto my computer so I could ditch Windows completely.



You need to provide your feedback to Blizzard and Microsoft who currently owns Blizzard.

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User profile for user: Rudegar
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Sep 17, 2026 3:14 PM in response to KainsTorment

we are not apple


these forums are user helping other users like yourself, it's sort of going to a physical apple store and asking other customers their advice


This is a user helping users with tech questions forum, we are not apple and apple do not read your posts here


noone here can have any insight as to if blizzard are planning to make their games avaible for the apple m(x) arm cpu based platform when apple stop supporting the older intel stuff


You can provide them with feedback using

Product Feedback - Apple

Or reach out to their official support channels

Get Support (apple.com)

And or

Contact - Official Apple Support

And or

Contact - How to Contact Us - Apple

Or

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple


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