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WoW Forums: Wrath of the Lich King going to Vista?

Posted Mar 12, 2008 at 01:47AM by Tim Y. Listed in: Rumors, Wrath of the Lich King Tags: Blizzard, GameStop, Windows Vista, Nethaera

For many a gamer, it's the sort of thing we hope won't be happening soon. According to Gezelle over at the World of Warcraft forums, there's a possibility that the Wrath of the Lich King expansion will require players to upgrade their system OS to Windows Vista.

Gezelle notes that the rumor stemmed froma discussion that took place with a friend currently employed at GameStop. Gezelle's friend had basically stated that with the way more and more PC games such as Shadowrun had been branded as Vista-only, it is then possible that WotLK would follow suit. The good news is that according to an update from Nethaera, this prospect appears to be unlikely. Quoting the blue-poster's exact reply:

What I'm saying is that we are continuing to develop with as many users as possible in mind. I'm not going to call out any specifics since we haven't publicized any at this point in time. I couldn't tell you if any upgrades would be needed or not since it depends on your machine and what it can handle. The likelihood of us switching to any one particular platform after supporting what we do right now, would be very low. ;)

Tossing in my two cents, I doubt that Blizzard would make WotLK a Vista-exclusive either. Part of WoW's appeal is that it's playable even on lower-end machines. Limiting the game to run on one OS would certainly exclude a good portion of its population, which could in turn affect its cash flow. Drop by again in case we receive any updates regarding this discussions

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by Keith K - 2008-03-12

» Um..

Game expansions dont launch on separate platforms from the original game. Lay off the crack.

Of what is it.. 10 million WoW users, how many of them do you think are on Vista? I'd wager somewhere in the area of 0..

Unless Blizzard plans to not their expansion, or simply lose all their subscribers, Im pretty sure they'll stay on the side of logical decisions.

Vista exclusive in any situation = retarded.

Vista exclusive expansion to an XP based game = The crazy red haired step-child of retarded.

by rivera82falcon - 2008-03-13

» Vista? Yeah right...

I have played WoW on Vista (sometimes do depending on PC i'm using) and it's horrible. The quality of the game drops dramatically as well as the performance too.

Originally, I ran WoW on an HP DV6205US w/ 2GB of DDR2 Ram using Vista and it wasn't fun at times. I downgraded the laptop to WindowsXP and the game showed a great increase in performance and the videocard was able to give a little bit more since the ram wasn't being eatten up from Vista.

In other words...Blizzard wouldn't do this to there fans!

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by annapost - 2008-03-26

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