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Blizzard to Discontinue Support for Windows XP, Vista

Because right now I can play WOW, S2 and D3 on my XP laptop without any issues.

Times change, game requirements change too. You are asking Blizzard to support OS, which itself has been dead since 2014. Meaning, if anything happens, let's say there is a new update, but it crashes on XP due to some very rare and specific condition, Blizzard might not be able to fix it without MS assistance. But the MS will not provide this assistance. What now?
Plus, it is not economical to catter the absolute minority by now. I am pretty sure Blizzard want's to get rid of the legacy code, especially for the graphics (XP was what, DX7.0 originally?) and just move everything over to DX11.
What's more, will you also argue that Blizzard is bad because they have raised system requirements for WoW? It used to run on max on Pentium 4 back in 2004, yet the minimum required CPU has been a dual core and DX10 capable GPU at least since the WoD. Are they guilty that WoW is not supposed to be run on single core systems anymore? Or what about removing Windows 98 compatibility? ME? 2000?
P.S.
Pretty sure they also don't want to deal with stolen account info because someone run on XP, which got some keylogger. Chances of getting one increases greatly if the OS is unsupported by it's creators.
 
Ending support for xp/vista, i am fine with that. Microsoft ended all support/updates in 2014 for xp if i remember correct. That means xp is a major security risk and its about time to move on to a newer os any way.

Old pc can run win 10 just fine. My old x58 system runs it fine and have no problems with it. X58 is released 9 years a go, so if your pc cant run win 10 you must have a very old system then.

Come on people xp is out dated and a major securety risk. Its time to upgrade. If you still run xp you are nuts :kookoo:
Boy oh boy have the tables have turned, when it comes to support for Windows 7/8.x Blizzard has already blown away valve. I am not complaining either, because I still daily drive 7 myself and Blizzard hasn't even announced end of support for 7/8 yet. Based on this comment you are mad at Blizzard for supporting an older OS xD
 
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