Reign of Gaming

Greetings Summoners,

I’m pleased to report that the long-awaited (fabled? mythical?) League of Legends Mac client is almost ready, and it’s heading into open beta soon™.

And by soon™, I mean that it’s available right now on the Public Beta Environment. Open beta, which will allow anyone to access the live servers on Macs, will follow after we’re confident in the results from the PBE test.

To make this happen, we’ve been hard at work: Riot engineers re-wrote a lot of the underlying game engine so that both PC and Mac platforms share the same code base and assets. This means it's a native Mac client, and Mac players will receive all future features, bug fixes, and new content at the same time as PC users.

While we aren't quite ready for a full open beta launch, we wanted to share the Mac client with PBE players to help us find bugs and give feedback.

Download the Mac PBE client here, patch up, and log in to help us make the Mac League of Legends experience as awesome as possible!

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.

Best,

Steve "Udyr" Mieczkowski

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

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It's been a great project to work on. I hope you guys enjoy it

Yep. Same regions, different OS

Maybe now you can go home before midnight, Brent!

Yes! They use the exact same server. So you'll be able to play with all of your friends as you used to on your PC.

Yes, same server.

Already been using it on live. It's been really awesome so far. I think you guys will love it.

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Just for good measure you know...

This is also where a lot of the bug fixes have been coming from. Especially ones related to the patcher.

Should we ever decide to do a linux client, it should take us less time now that we've already gone cross platform and have experience with *nix systems.

One runs on MacOS X. The other runs on Windows. So naturally, some of the hot keys are different (such as Cmd+Q vs. Alt+F4 for quitting). Other than that, there shouldn't be any player impacting differences.