Blizzard announced in a forum thread that World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm won’t work on those legacy platforms before the end of the year. The game developer said: In 2016, Blizzard announced that it would drop support for both Windows XP and Vista after years of patronizing both. However, the time frame was not clear. Blizzard games have remained available for players for many, many operating system cycles. But since many gamers have migrated to modern platforms, Blizzard finally decided to pull the plug on some games still supporting those older operating systems. 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. Reports suggest that this process would be on a case-by-case basis rather than be executed all at once. The ending of support for those games makes sense considering that Microsoft itself no longer supports XP for consumers. Hopefully, players must make the switch and be able to continue playing Blizzard’s games. Does Blizzard’s decision to ditch Windows XP and Vista surprise you? Let us know!

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