I would like to point out to the developers of LoL a little tool that might be useful in porting League from PC to mac. It's called Cider, here's a quote directly from Transgaming Inc.'s website:

"TransGaming's Cider™ Portability Engine is a proprietary technology that allows PC games to be enabled on Apple's Intel Macs without the traditionally expensive and arduous need to redevelop a game from the ground-up. Cider acts as a "wrapper" around the PC game dynamically translating PC API calls to the Mac OS X operating system. As such, games can be enabled with Cider in a matter of days to weeks as opposed to the typical man years that traditional development takes."

Here is the email address that you can use as a developer or publisher if you wish to get more information about using Cider to port LoL: cider@transgaming.com. Now there are very few excuses to NOT get LOL on Mac. I'm about to stop playing your game completely because im tired of switching from mac to windows and back again whenever i want to play a game. Get on it.

A Cider port would probably work for most people, Cider-ized games aren't necessarily the best ports, have been plagued with problems (EVE Online is an example of a client running in Cider) but a lot of people (myself included) would be more than content with a Cider client. I understand priorities may differ, but it's a relatively easy procedure compared to porting a full native client over.

In the meantime, I will use Boot Camp of course, and enjoy LoL and all the work put into it. However, I am greatly limited in playtime by the procedure of switching to windows. (most of my media, work, photos for work etc are all on my mac partition). Additionally, I cannot get my bluetooth mouse/keyboard to work in Windows for some reason, so have to also switch mice and keyboard every reboot.

Just a tip, as LameSaint pointed out. I'll buy some stuff for real USD in the LoL store, even though I don't need it, the day that even a Cider Mac client comes out to support mac development. You can hold me to that promise :P.

Riot appreciates your concern, and has Mac slated at a (much) later date. They are a small startup company. Their -total- staff (including PR, management, and other non-engineers) is a bit above 50. Compare to Blizzard (which so generously includes Mac support in their games) with an -engineer/developer- staff of 30+ -PER GAME-. This is many times times the raw manpower of Riot. Riot has a list of priorities: Mac is on them, but unfortunately it is not high in the list. This is especially because Bootcamp is a current option.

As for requiring a windows CD, I must confess I am unfamiliar with Macs/Bootcamp personally, but I was under the impression that you didn't need a code. I could easily be wrong, or the person could have been accidentally (or purposefully) pirating it. I don't know.

As for skins vs other things: Riot has engineers, they have artists, they have other staff. Engineers code the goodies, artists draw them. I have a feeling you'd be very upset with the quality of your Mac port if Riot assigned its artists to code it.



Again, I appreciate what you're saying, and understand why Mac users might feel disenfranchised that Riot isn't especially accommodating of them. Please keep in mind that Riot has really limited resources and is doing its best to please the most of its customers at the same time. Right now, the community (including many, many bootcamp users) is demanding other things first. It will get done, but you will have to wait a considerable amount of time for it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I have bootcamped, because I managed to score a very cheap version of windows vista (legally purchased). It took me a long time to get the game up and running for various reasons. But now I have a big problem. Everytime a game starts my LoL gives me an error stating that my graphic card or drivers do not support shader model 2.0. Is there any way to update the mac's video card drivers on windows so that I can play? I've already gone through so much trouble for this to fail now.

I have the first generation macbook, running mac osx 10.4.11

Shader 2.0 isn't something that can be updated to. The card either supports the technology, or it doesn't. I have heard of people "tricking" their computer into thinking the card is shader 2.0, when it isn't, but I'm not familiar with doing this (and I can't recommend it).