From Alahmnat;
I’ve been chasing the Ubi store for a straight answer on the system requirement listings for the standard edition box for the past two weeks and I’ve finally gotten an answer out of them, but I don’t think many of you are gonna like it…
The Limited Edition box, as stated at the UbiSoft store, will be a hybrid Mac/PC DVD-ROM release.
The standard edition release in the white box, however, will be PC ONLY, and will ship on 3 CDs. Don’t ask me to explain it, I don’t think it makes any sense either. However, if you’re a Mac user who has pre-ordered the white-box version of the game (whether from Ubi or anywhere else), I strongly suggest canceling your order and pre-ordering (or otherwise planning on purchasing) the black-box Limited Edition. I’m looking into whether the LE will be available for purchase in other stores like Best Buy and Gamestop, and I’m also seeing if this is just for the US or if it applies internationally (in which case they darn well had better be shipping the LE overseas…).
This has been double checked by Khatie of Ubisoft and is found to be true.
MarkD from CyanWorlds had this to say in response;
Unfortunately, this is true.
But before the conspiracy theorist get going, here is the reason why:
There is a bug in InstallShield that we are using for Myst V, that doesn’t allow the install files to span multiple disks on the Mac when using a Mac/PC hybrid with multiple languages. It is a complicated issue that InstallShield can’t fix in time for the release of Myst V.
So, the only option was to put the hybrid version of DVD only.
