World of Warcraft subscribers on older Mac hardware will soon be left with no choice but to upgrade to a new system or give up the game for good. Blizzard announced on its official forums over the weekend that an upcoming patch will disable support for World of Warcraft on Power PC-equipped Macs.
“Apple has been focusing on Intel Macs since the end of 2005,” notes a Blizzard poster on the forums. “So since 5 years, PPC systems has received very few bug fixes. It is now too hard to deal with all the bugs and the lack of features to support the few PPC users that we have left.”
Following the pre-Cataclysm update, anyone with a Power PC machine will be greeted with an error message when attempting to run the game. Blizzard points out that StarCraft 2 also lacks Power PC support, as will Diablo III.
