Blizzard has announced that it will end support for older operating systems this October. Going into more details, World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm will stop supporting both Windows XP and Windows Vista in October.
Back in February, Blizzard hinted at dropping support for both Windows XP and Windows Vista in 2017. As such, owners of the aforementioned games will have to move on to a newer operating system in order to keep playing these titles.
As Blizzard claimed:
“The games will not run on these older operating systems once they are no longer supported, so we encourage any players who are still using one of the older OSes to upgrade to a newer version. We’ll be rolling out this change on a staggered schedule, and will post further notices as we get closer to making the change for each game.”
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I’m curious to see people complain and the overall repercussions of this.
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wait. they did support windows xp?
wow released in 2004, of course it supported XP
and last time i checked it wasn’t the year 2004 for almost a decade.
i think you mean OVER a decade
I know what i meant!
last time I checked wow is still the same game, running on the same engine
For anyone still running XP, a 16 year old OS, it’s way past time to upgrade. XP isn’t even safe to go on the internet anymore to begin with. It no longer gets any security patches. If your still running XP because you have to for some legacy business apps that would be too expensive to replace with modern apps then that’s one thing but for gaming? No.
As far as Vista goes it never really did catch on very well. Most went from XP to Win 7. MS is pushing to get rid of support for Win 7 and for everyone to adopt Win 10 so the best bet for anyone still using XP or Vista is to get a copy of Win 10. Yes, it’s different but you will get used to it quickly. You can Google any question and find answers to everything quickly.
Honestly Windows 7 is still the best
most stable platform and they both run games with identical performance
sure they might kill it off in 3-4 years but it’s still one of the better platforms without nasty spyware or random blue screens of death (i’ve had 3 of those on windows 10, and 0 on windows 7)
Personally I like Win 7 the best and still use it on my gaming rig but MS has and will continue pressing forward to kill Win 7 in the near future. New Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs don’t support Win 7 for security reasons and I’m positive that MS, based on their behavior about getting everyone on Win 10 one way or another, isn’t going to go the same route as they did with prolonging the lifespan of Win 7 like they did with XP. Whether we like it or not MS is going to have almost evryone on Win 10 eventually so anyone looking to upgrade from XP or Vista might as well just get a copy of Win 10 and avoid having to upgrade again from Win 7.
I do think MS stinks for their built in telemetry on Win 10 and also Quality Control has gone to hell in some cases. They’ve taken a page from some game publishers and turned some customers into suckers paying full price to beta test their software for them. Well, those that didn’t take the free upgrade option they offered in the past.
I have to agree with you. Windows 7 had all the effectiveness of XP but with the fancy graphics of Vista. Anything could run on it! And it instantly became best friends with whatever hardware you were trying to run it on. Really a fantastic OS and I still reckon that if Windows 10 did not ship for free in the beginnig, it would have tanked.
that, and the thousand pro-MS articles that “journelists” kept churning on PCgamer and other shill sites
i’ve fallen into the Win 10 hype only because of false promises from Microscam to bring 360 exclusives into the windows 10 store
if i could turn back the clock, i would tell that store clerk to f**k off and choose windows 7 (he pressed me that windows 7 is running out of time… in 2015, such lies…)
though Microsoft is slowing doing steps to make their service more attractive (crossplay between Xbox and PC players, cheap regional prices etc..) they haven’t completely won over me, and this year marks the 10th anniversry of halo 3, they have one chance of restoring PCgamers their trust in M$ by releasing halo 3 anniversry on PC and Xbone
WHAT!? YOU WILL NO LONGER SUPPORT VISTA!?!? WHY YOU DIRTY ROTTEN… oh… oh wait…