After a short test-period has publisher Electronic Arts, a mac OS X client for its gaming platform, Origin released. The Origin for Mac client is in addition to the existing iOS client, which would be responsible for 40 percent of the Origin-starters..
The arrival of Origin for the Mac makes it for example possible that users of an Apple laptop or desktop games that they earlier for Windows, now also for their OS X system, can download, free of charge. Also the in-game purchases and progress in games will remain unchanged. Among others, The Sims 3, Dragon Age 2, Batman: Arkham City and Lego Harry Potter are available for OS X systems.
According to the vice president of the productietak of Origin, Mike Blank, EA for a client for Mac because the market share of the operating system of Apple is rising and there is a group of avid gamers for the platform. “On the whole, you can see that developers on the pc platform have been addressed, but I think a change is gonna come”, says Blank against AppleInsider, hint that EA still more games simultaneously for pc and Mac will release, while iOS is becoming more and more important for the publisher.
“About 40 percent, maybe 17 million users, have for the first time, Origin accessed on iOS”, he revealed. In total, the online gamedistributieplatform EA 40 million active accounts. The alpha-test of Origin for Mac started in January.