And it all takes place in a huge world that still looks great, a feat for a game that runs on an engine created more than a decade ago. That journey will be full of quests, battlegrounds, dungeons, and raids. As a new player, you’ll get to choose a side (Alliance for life!), select a race, and begin your journey from level 1 to 70.

World of Warcraft tells the story of the conflict between the Alliance and the Horde. We’ll share real-world benchmarks on M1 and Intel machines below. On top of being among the first developers to support Apple’s then-new Metal graphics API (which made the game 61% faster compared to its OpenGL version), it was also one of the first to support M1s natively.īottom line: WoW runs extremely smoothly on modern Macs, including MacBook Airs and Mac Minis. It is worth mentioning that Blizzard has always delivered stellar Mac support for World of Warcraft (too bad that can’t be said for Overwatch). In fact, World of Warcraft is one of the few AAA games that support M1 Macs with a native ARM Apple Silicon version.

You can absolutely play World of Warcraft on your Mac, and that includes Intel and M1 Models.

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