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Call me Mr. Obvious. Glad you liked it.

Would love to see a screenshot once you make him.

There is nothing wrong with voicing criticism and frustration over this issue. This is a clearly inadequate situation that could have been avoided on a number of occasions, no matter whether they are working on it now or not.

I appreciate Zwillinger's efforts as much as the next guy, and I am sure that if it was within his powers he would have fixed it a while ago. But that is not the case and we don't have to like it.

I think it's more helpful if you let people express their feelings, especially when it is done in a wholly appropriate way, than to tell them to shut up.

Ahhh, too bad, I had hoped you had a solution that worked.

If you check over on the Mac forums, you may find somewhat different posts than in the beta forums. We mostly stayed over there with that issue, because we had Zwillinger's ear, who was in contact with the engineers of the Transgaming client as well as the in-house Devs.

In short, at this point the font issue seems to exist under Leopard and Lion (OS names, just in case), and if you can't read most of the content of the store (including how many points you have) it makes shopping pretty interesting. I think the judgement is still out about how stable the store itself is for all Mac users. Extended use seems to crash it for many if not most. And lastly, if you access the store, the launcher is still unable to start the game back up unless you trash your preferences (which includes your finely tuned graphics settings).

I consider this a pretty unsatisfactory situation. And even though we were assured that Freedom would not go live with this problem unresolved, I understand that there are other pressures. It just sucks for us.

But thanks for your interest.

It's not a reward, it's a discount. Which involves money. And right now it looks like financial interests matter more than our (minority) interests.

Are you playing on a Mac? And do you mind if I ask you what version of the OS you are on?

The situation you are describing is not what I see reported in the majority of the posts on the Mac forum and elsewhere. And it is certainly not my own experience. Any information you can share about your set-up might really be helpful in solving this.

Thanks.

I would not count on that. I think it's very obviously being demonstrated to us right now, that Mac users are too small a group to matter for them over financial considerations.

It really is a bit of a big deal if this is not fixed by Tuesday.

Do any of you know where I can actually check how many Paragon Points I have? That part is at least for me affected by the missing font issue in the store? Is it available elsewhere? Could it be made available elsewhere in case they don't get this addressed in time. Because that is really vital information.

Thanks.

Wow, I totally missed that...so were they indicating that they would no longer have a Mac client, or that they would develop one independent of Transgaming?

Well, at least your avatar is line with your amount of compassion.

...or 2 days, unless you think they are working on this over the weekend. Based on the "priority" this issue has had so far, I personally doubt that very much.

I for one am stunned how soon this is launching. At this point there has been extremely limited beta testing by Mac users due to this issue. Who knows what other issues will pop up.

If Freedom launches in the current state that the beta client is in, I'd consider COH at best a severely crippled game for Mac customers, and at worst unplayable based on how central the Paragon Market is to Freedom.

This would completely fly in the face of the assurance we got in this thread from Zwillinger that Freedom would not launch with this issue in place (...and I don't think anybody could argue that the work done so far has solved the issue. It was a promising start, but I don't think we have heard from one person who doesn't still have problems with the Paragon Market in one way or another).

Just so this is clear to whoever is working on this, aside from the font issue and the problem with the launcher, the Paragon store still crashes the game for me if I use it for say more than 5 minutes (yeah, I'll have to turn into a power shopper, ha, ha...). And based on comments here and in other threads I am not the only one with that issue.

Well Cuppa, I guess you were right with you initial assessment how critical this issue is to the folks at Paragon.

Damn, I hope you guys prove me wrong!

Yeah, it's still broken for me too. Text missing in store. Poking around the store for more than 5 minutes crashes the game. And I have to delete the Prefs folder in order for the loader to start the game again.

Game is also in the Applications folder (what I would consider the default location for apps).

It'd be a great time for another babystep forward to keep the spirits up.

That is not correct. The fonts are also not loading in Leopard (10.5.8). The only difference is that instead of the little square in place of the font, we get nothing (see my screenshot earlier in this thread).

This is something that Brennan_Mari mentioned a few posts back and that is "working" for me, instead of using Zwillinger's more complicated method:

That's it.

We are Mac, we don't need words! I think this is probably working as intended.

Glad that we have this update, and I'll spend some time with it tonight...looking at the pictures in the store.

Thanks.