Therian @ Mac
Posted: Fri 14 Oct 2016, 15:25
I have been playing the game at a Mac machine from the beginning. I used to play it at Chrome then when it got dropped, I tried both Firefox and Safari. Firefox did not seem to work correctly, the map is not scrolling smoothly, it jumps at points, making it really bothersome to play, while Safari had an excellent behaviour. So I decided to use Safari for main and cycle my alts with Firefox.
It all changed with new Mac Sierra, a new version of the O/S running on Macs. It got released a week ago and after the update, with a new version of Safari 10 which drops all plugin support. It actually comes with Silverlight blocked, which can be unblocked at preferences but... the behaviour is not the same. Now the game is almost unplayable. The map jumps instead of scrolling, hot points are not clickable some times, single clicking on items doesn't work, you need to press 3-4 times, in general too many freezes to make this playable.
So, it comes the time when my favourite game is almost unplayable at my machine using all browsers available (which machine by the way does not lack system power, so this is not the problem here). I don't know if other Mac users have the same issue, but for me the past 2-3 days it has been really disappointing. I haven't figured a solution, but the cry is out loud. We need Silverlight out. You know it 2 years, you should have released it by now, you had your issues as well but with all the Greenlights in the world, if you don't release it somewhere in the next few months, players (staring with Mac users) will have no way to achieve a good game experience with Therian Saga and will quit.
edit: From official Firefox blog posted at the end of 2015:
"Websites and publishers which currently use plugins such as Silverlight or Java should accelerate their transition to Web technologies. The Web platform is powerful and can usually do everything that a plugin can do. In the rare cases where a site needs to extend Web technologies, the recommended solution is to develop the additional features as a Firefox add-on. Site maintainers should prepare for plugins to stop working in all versions of Firefox by the end of 2016."
It all changed with new Mac Sierra, a new version of the O/S running on Macs. It got released a week ago and after the update, with a new version of Safari 10 which drops all plugin support. It actually comes with Silverlight blocked, which can be unblocked at preferences but... the behaviour is not the same. Now the game is almost unplayable. The map jumps instead of scrolling, hot points are not clickable some times, single clicking on items doesn't work, you need to press 3-4 times, in general too many freezes to make this playable.
So, it comes the time when my favourite game is almost unplayable at my machine using all browsers available (which machine by the way does not lack system power, so this is not the problem here). I don't know if other Mac users have the same issue, but for me the past 2-3 days it has been really disappointing. I haven't figured a solution, but the cry is out loud. We need Silverlight out. You know it 2 years, you should have released it by now, you had your issues as well but with all the Greenlights in the world, if you don't release it somewhere in the next few months, players (staring with Mac users) will have no way to achieve a good game experience with Therian Saga and will quit.
edit: From official Firefox blog posted at the end of 2015:
"Websites and publishers which currently use plugins such as Silverlight or Java should accelerate their transition to Web technologies. The Web platform is powerful and can usually do everything that a plugin can do. In the rare cases where a site needs to extend Web technologies, the recommended solution is to develop the additional features as a Firefox add-on. Site maintainers should prepare for plugins to stop working in all versions of Firefox by the end of 2016."