If you play Rocket League via Steam on your Mac, you’ll soon have to make the switch to Windows or give up most of the online features. The studio behind the hit game has announced today that it’s dropping macOS and Linux support starting in March.
Last year, the studio behind Rocket League, Pysonix, was acquired by Epic Games. Reddit users speculate that one of the reasons macOS is being abandoned is because of differences in Epic Games’ strategy and varying support of macOS.
In a new support document, Pysonix simply explains that its goal is to provide the “best experience possible” for all players, something that is not possible if it has to maintain the Mac and Linux versions of Rocket League:
We want Rocket League to be the best experience possible for all our players. This includes adapting to use new technologies. This has made it more difficult to support macOS and Linux (SteamOS). Because of this, we will have a final patch for these versions in early March.
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