Wednesday, January 23, 2013

League of Legends is Getting a Mac Client

On the official forums and on Reddit it was officially announced that Riot has been working on a Mac client and it is starting public beta testing today. Have a mac and want to try the public beta now? Today is your only chance, sign up for a PBE account here, and then download the client once you're all setup.

Riot used to have a Mac client but it was buggy, to say the least, and it was pulled in September of 2011. Luckily the majority of Mac LoL players have been benefiting from the amazing iLoL client created by Boompje and his team. Other have used parallels or bootcamp, but as nice as any of these options are nothing will be as nice as a real client from Riot. The non-beta client can't come soon enough but Rioter Udyr has noted that it might still be a little bit until that will happen. Until then I'm going to use the beta, and if you miss the window get iLoL and get to playing.

If you're a fan of iLoL and boompje, do not worry, he already has plans in the works once his first product becomes obsolete. The future plans include a Linux client, recording program across platforms, and other nifty little tools.






Rioter Udyr ended his post with this, and I have to agree:
Thanks to the Mac community for your extraordinary patience – and a very special thanks to a particularly astounding group of folks who helped many of you play League via an unofficial client over the past months.

P.S. Huge thanks to the Cross Platform team for their hard work!

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