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Riot probably has enough resources to pay its developers to target Metal on macOS by the time OpenGL is removed (some number of years from now). It’s the small
by shurcooL 8y ago
Riot probably has enough resources to pay its developers to target Metal on macOS by the time OpenGL is removed (some number of years from now).
It’s the smaller scale developers and projects that might not have have such ability.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoThe smaller scale ones are generally using an existing engine like Unity or Unreal, which handles Metal support.
- TillE 8y agoGenerally, yes. Certainly not all. The likes of SFML and SDL2 and libgdx have zero support for Metal, although SDL2 did recently add support for Vulkan.
- jamesgeck0 8y agoHow far back did Unity/Unreal transparently handle Metal support? I suspect some developers won't have the resources to update games running on older versions of those engines. Games made by developers who've gone out of business are probably just going to stop working in a few versions of MacOS.
- matthew-wegner 8y agoCertainly has enough resources. Their 2015 revenue estimate was $1.6 billion. 2,500 employees in 2017. (Not intending to nitpick--just pointing out that Riot is a LOT bigger than many folks realize)