How To Play EA FC24 on a Mac

EA FC24 was the first re-branded version of the popular EA FIFA games series and you can now finally play it on a Mac thanks to Xbox Cloud.

Xbox Cloud is one of the best game streaming services for Macs and works perfectly on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs

You simply need an Xbox Cloud Ultimate subscription to get access to EA FC 24 in Xbox Cloud.

You also need an Xbox controller connected by Bluetooth to your Mac to play it.

Note that this does not yet work for EA FC25 but should do later in the year when it will likely replace EA FC24 in Xbox Cloud.

What Is EA FC24?

In a move which confused FIFA fans worldwide, Electronic Arts rebranded the FIFA football game as EA24 for the 2023 release of the game.

What many expected to be called “FIFA 24” is therefore called EA FC24 due to the fact that EA decided not to pay FIFA for the rights to use the FIFA in its game.

This came as big surprise for FIFA fans as EA had been using the FIFA name under license for the game ever since FIFA 94 released all the way back in 1993.

Are EA FC24 or FC25 Available For Mac?

There is no official version of either EA FC24 or FC25 for macOS.

Electronic Arts released FC24 on September 29th and it is only available for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, Android and Microsoft Windows.

The company released EA FC25 on September 27th 2024 for the same platforms.

Can You Play EA24 or EA25 in Parallels, Crossover or Apple Game Porting Kit?

You can’t play either EA24 or EA25 in Parallels, Crossover or the Apple Game Porting Toolkit on a Mac for a couple of reasons:

• The game is protected by EA’s ant-cheat software which does not run in virtual machines including Parallels
• It requires Advanced Vector Graphics (AVX) which doesn’t work on Apple Silicon Macs with the M-series chips

There are various other ways of playing Windows games on a Mac but the only viable ones are airGPU or Shadow.

These allow you to access a remote installation of Windows where you can install FC24 and then stream it to your Mac.

However, this not only performs very badly due to the connection lag between your Mac and the PC but it works out very expensive either via subscription or via by the hour for server time.