Jun 25, 2018 - Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is no longer playable on Mac OS X systems, now that the company supporting its DRM has shut down. The Metal Gear Rising Mac version has suddenly become completely unplayable. The Mac port of the game included DRM that made a constant online connection (in a singleplayer game, no less) necessary.

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is now unplayable on Mac due to a DRM issue caused by the port's developer shutting down. DRM, especially the always-kind, has been a major point of contention for gamers recently, whether it be due to its reliance on possibly poor severs (in SimCity’s case), or the fact that if its servers shut down, the game is no longer playable.

The most recent victim of the latter appears to be the Mac version of which is now unplayable to its owners. This problem was first discovered by Reddit user who booted up the Mac version of the 2013 action game for the first time recently, only to receive the following error: MetalGearRisingRevengeance3771: regapi failed: 6 MetalGearRisingRevengeance3782: regapi failed: 6 TNGLauncher3781: Couldn’t open application: 6 MetalGearRisingRevengeance3798: regapi failed: 6 TNGLauncher3797: Couldn’t open application: 6 Apparently, this was a DRM system implemented by Transgaming, the developer of this port.

Metal Gear Solid is a great Action-Adventure, Stealth and Shooting video game by Konami. The game follows the character of Solid Snake, a skilled soldier who is tasked to neutralize a terrorist organization named as FOXHOUND.

Unfortunately, Transgaming has since shut down, as have the servers the in-game DRM on Mac attempts to reach out to. This leaves Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance unplayable on Mac, even to those who have bought the game legally, as it doesn’t look like Konami is planning on fixing this issue anytime soon. It is currently unknown if this impact other Transgaming Mac ports. Since this news broke, Valve has officially removed the Mac version of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance from Steam so people don’t accidentally buy a game during thisthat doesn’t even work due to DRM. It’s alway unfortunate to see great games like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance get sullied by faulty DRM, but hopefully this serves as a warning to both consumers and developers. If you want to play Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, you can still do so without any problems on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

The Mac port of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance no longer works, thanks to a bit of DRM that has been rendered inoperable due to the ravages of time. As excellent as Metal Gear Rising is, the Mac version is perhaps not how you’d want to play it, but the issue raises a larger question about what happens when support ends for games with unique forms of DRM. Metal Gear Rising was ported to Mac, and compatibility with OS X was an advertised feature on the game’s Steam page – though not anymore.

The DRM for this version of the game has to connect to an online server every time you launch, and the company that built the port no longer exists – meaning there’s nowhere for that check to arrive, and no one to make a patch for the game. These the very.

The issue was noted by a this week. The port was created by a company called TransGaming, which at the time specialized in bringing Windows games to Mac. The company’s Graphics and Portability Group in 2015, and TransGaming itself became Findev in 2016, divesting itself from the game business to focus, instead, on real estate financing.

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Based on an ancient (by internet standards), TransGaming made use of SecuROM for all its titles. Those games were ported to Mac via the company’s proprietary Cider technology, which in turn was built from popular Windows portability solution Wine. Rising likely makes use of SecuROM, but without a company to call home to, it’s been apparently inoperable since March of 2017. Of course, the Windows version of Metal Gear Rising still works just fine, so if you’ve bought the game on Steam you can still guide Raiden through its excellent action. There are other options to keep playing Rising on Mac, even – both legal and otherwise – but the fact that a game can go down thanks to nobody considering the future of their DRM solution makes for a concerning precedent.