It is always sad to see a game stop receiving support, and the developers of Elite Dangerous just announced that after the Q4 update, you won’t be able to play the game on a MacOS. This is disappointing, but it is easier to let go than to hold on to something that just isn’t working, and the developers of Elite Dangerous saw that they were having too many technical difficulties with the Mac version of the game. Once the Q4 update comes, you won’t be able to log into the game on your Mac operating system.
This obviously sucks, but at least the developers won’t have to struggle with making the new features work on the MacOS, which gives them more time to just focus on more content for the other platforms. You can’t overcome certain difficulties that you encounter, and you can’t win all battles, but they did their best to provide the Mac users with as much content as they could make on that platform, and it seems like the Q4 update is bringing something that they just couldn’t implement into the Mac version. They said in their official post:
As many of you will know, despite our best efforts, we have been unable to bring Elite Dangerous Horizons to Mac since launch due to technical barriers. With the planned improvements coming in our Chapter Four update of the Beyond season we have felt it necessary to make this difficult decision in order to allow us to bring in content and features in the way that we felt was best for the overall Elite Dangerous experience.
This is a shame for Mac players, as they will have to switch to another platform if they want to keep playing Elite Dangerous.
