Blizzard No Longer Supporting Windows XP Or Vista For Their Games

If you’re a blizzard fan and are still running Windows XP or Vista, then it may be time to upgrade. Blizzard has announced that they will no longer support those operating systems come October, World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm are the games that will be effected.

"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," the announcement reads. "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."

Blizzard No Longer Supporting PC’s Running Windows XP And Vista

Blizzard has announced that they are ending support for both Windows XP and Windows Vista across Diablo III, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft II and World of Warcraft. This will be a "staggered process," but it's a hard cutoff once a given title loses support -- it won't run until you upgrade. While there is "decent" number of people running XP and Vista when Microsoft ended support for those OS’, that's no longer the case. The "vast majority" of players have moved on to newer Windows releases, Blizzard says. As Ars Technica points out, the move may well be linked to the internet connection requirement for these titles. Thoughts ?