I was surfing through the forums and I came across a forum thread where a Blizzard rep(herein referred to as a 'Blue') had commented. This is a topic I get a lot when I talk to the uneducated about WoW. "It's an advanced game and my computer isn't great". "I am sure Blizzard want to run on the best they can get". All of this and more plague me as 1) a WoW addict and 2) a knowledgeable and educated geek.
In the thread we have a person pointing out, in a really uneducated and generalized way, that all the best PC games now require Windows Vista, this coming from their friend who works in a game shop. No doubt these game makers 'require' Vista Ultimate, with Aero Glass and all the cool(read:useless) features involved. Thankfully Blizzard, that game maker we all love and hate in equal measure, is far brighter en mass and more kind to their customers and fans.
While Nethaera, in her responses, tried to hedge her answers in her first two replies, she finally came out and said what I knew the answer was.
Blizzard releases not only a Mac copy of the game, but at the same time as the PC version. Blizzard had gone so far as to begin a beta for a Spanish version of the US game to address the Spanish American and South American audience with the game. They made version for Taiwan, China, and Europe, and even made Oceanic specific servers for Australia and New Zealand part of the world.
Why in hell would Blizzard make the biggest mistake in their company's history by making the PC side of Wrath of the Lich King require a version of an OS that most of the employees at the company who makes it won't even run? I know a few employees of Microsoft and not one of them will run Windows Vista. Hell, upon asking today if I should run the 'fix to the Vista OS' as I heard one Microsoft sales person call SP1 today, I was told that if I run Vista yes, but it is not enough of a reason to install Vista if you aren't.
Blizzard can see the warning signs, folks, and they aren't about to ignore the 'Beware, deadly drop ahead' and 'Warning barrier is electrified and may cause death' signs plastered all over the path that leads to Vista. If other game makers want to lower themselves down the dark, lonely hole of Vista and it's myriad problems, that is fine, but I know Blizzard won't lead their customers to like lemmings.
In the thread we have a person pointing out, in a really uneducated and generalized way, that all the best PC games now require Windows Vista, this coming from their friend who works in a game shop. No doubt these game makers 'require' Vista Ultimate, with Aero Glass and all the cool(read:useless) features involved. Thankfully Blizzard, that game maker we all love and hate in equal measure, is far brighter en mass and more kind to their customers and fans.
While Nethaera, in her responses, tried to hedge her answers in her first two replies, she finally came out and said what I knew the answer was.
The Expansion is not going to require users to upgrade to Vista. We have some things in the works on the end of graphics, but it's not anything that is going to require this specific upgrade.There you have it. Let me break it down for you. Wrath of the Lich King will not require Windows Vista. You heard it there first. Or here. Whichever. This if for all the reason I mentioned in my reply, and the reasons mentioned in other's replies. blizzard has always done, and prided themselves in the fact that they make their games playable by as many people as possible, and this could well be the driving force behind over 10 million people playing worldwide.
Blizzard releases not only a Mac copy of the game, but at the same time as the PC version. Blizzard had gone so far as to begin a beta for a Spanish version of the US game to address the Spanish American and South American audience with the game. They made version for Taiwan, China, and Europe, and even made Oceanic specific servers for Australia and New Zealand part of the world.
Why in hell would Blizzard make the biggest mistake in their company's history by making the PC side of Wrath of the Lich King require a version of an OS that most of the employees at the company who makes it won't even run? I know a few employees of Microsoft and not one of them will run Windows Vista. Hell, upon asking today if I should run the 'fix to the Vista OS' as I heard one Microsoft sales person call SP1 today, I was told that if I run Vista yes, but it is not enough of a reason to install Vista if you aren't.
Blizzard can see the warning signs, folks, and they aren't about to ignore the 'Beware, deadly drop ahead' and 'Warning barrier is electrified and may cause death' signs plastered all over the path that leads to Vista. If other game makers want to lower themselves down the dark, lonely hole of Vista and it's myriad problems, that is fine, but I know Blizzard won't lead their customers to like lemmings.
