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posted by martyb on Saturday July 22 2017, @10:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-supported,-but-still-playable? dept.

"If you're using an operating system [from Microsoft] that's over a decade old to play Blizzard games, we have some bad news for you. Starting in October, Blizzard says it will "begin the process of ending support for Windows XP and Windows Vista in World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm." - via ArsTechnica


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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday July 22 2017, @11:58AM (3 children)

    by looorg (578) on Saturday July 22 2017, @11:58AM (#542864)

    I would assume it makes sense for Blizzard from a user-base perspective to, as mentioned in the Ars-article "... the "vast majority of our audience has upgraded" to a more recent OS, Blizzard says.". Could have been nice with some actual numbers but they have them and made the decision. After all the Blizzard App (the replacement for Battle.net) used to launch their games pretty much spy on their entire userbase as much as Steam etc does. So the only once, more or less, that will suffer is probably some third world internet gaming cafes or some gold farming operations. With the upgrades and future engine upgrades I would assume Warcraft, Starcraft II, Diablo III and Heroes of the Storm will all be 64bit only, Hearthstone possibly also but engine wise that shouldn't really require much since it's also a tablet game. While there is a 64bit version of Windows XP it might just not cut it anymore since it's over a decade old. WOW was released in 2004 (US), 2005 (EU). The first expansion (The Burning Crusade) in 2007, 2008 Wrath of the Lich King expansion, 2010 Cataclysm expansion, 2012 Mists of Pandaria expansion, 2014 Warlords of Draenor expansion, 2016 Legion expansion. One can wonder why this didn't happen sooner really since Windows 7 was released in 2009, Windows 8 in 2012 and Windows 10 in 2015.

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  • (Score: 2) by Lagg on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:28PM (2 children)

    by Lagg (105) on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:28PM (#542872) Homepage Journal

    I would actually be legitimately surprised if an internet cafe managed to connect a machine that can run XP and Starcraft to the wider internet and function on any level. There are service vulnerabilities to the extent that their nmap scripts are now considered ancient.

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    • (Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday July 22 2017, @05:43PM (1 child)

      by edIII (791) on Saturday July 22 2017, @05:43PM (#542982)

      I noticed you left Windows Vista out :)

      That was quite a shocker in the title, that somebody actually uses it. For anything. That, and it is apparently working. Somebody else asked what the numbers might have been and I'm guessing it was 1 for Vista, and that was a data entry error.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @01:26AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @01:26AM (#543199)

        Windows Vista EOL was April 11, 2017. For Windows XP it was April 8, 2014. So XP--outside of those who have a support contract, which wouldn't include many gamers--has an extra 3 years of unpatched vulnerabilities.