Blizzard is ending support for WoW and other games for XP/VISTA

[Wakfuquitter]

Source:
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/799725-ending-support-for-windows-xp-and-vista/

#1 - 2017/02/17 07:32:00 PM

Starting later this year, we 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. Microsoft ceased mainstream support for these versions of Windows in 2009 and 2012, respectively, but since a decent portion of our audience was still using them at the time, we continued supporting them. However, there have been three major Windows releases since Vista, and at this point, the vast majority of our audience has upgraded to one of the newer versions.

After these older operating systems are no longer supported, the games will not run on them, 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.

Could this mean there is gona be a market crash? I know china is still using xp.

 

[Keiichi]

Banned - dispute - https://www.epicnpc.com/threads/keiichi-owes-me-fees-i-hope-he-is-okay-cool-dude.1433002/

What a real shame.This will affect many players.

 

[Wakfuquitter]

What a real shame.This will affect many players.

Well, i think this forum is gona get floded with players trying to sell their accounts (those that still use xp).
Buyers should probaly get ready.

 

[Rafflez]

Banned - Failed to resolve - https://www.epicnpc.com/threads/failure-to-payback-loan-and-ignores-my-messages.2090927/

There's no surprise to this. They've been outdate for along time.

 

[Empathetic]

Would love to see some stats on the amount of players still playing on XP.

 

[buhzar]

Would love to see some stats on the amount of players still playing on XP.

also interested in this. i understand the reason the support is getting cut off, but would be nice to know how many people it will affect

 

[ReasonEQ]

also interested in this. i understand the reason the support is getting cut off, but would be nice to know how many people it will affect

brasilian players/ chinese users (some still uses XP for some XP limited softwares) any country with a low value currency and these probably represent 5% of WoW players.

 

[elsavador]

Did they ever really give support? lol

 

[PackManPacks]

FeelsBadMan

 

[buhzar]

brasilian players/ chinese users (some still uses XP for some XP limited softwares) any country with a low value currency and these probably represent 5% of WoW players.

that's a fair point, but even 5% could be a lot of people (although can't know exact numbers since they stopped releasing sub counts)

 

[majorcyvaco]

Banned - scammer - mailhex.com

Well, Xvideos Youporn Xhamster i think this forum is gona get floded with players trying to sell their accounts (those that still use xp).
Buyers should probaly get ready.

that's a fair point, but even 5% could be a lot of people (although can't know exact numbers since they stopped releasing sub counts)