Lich King NOT Vista Only

In response to some rumours flying around that Blizzard will require WoW players to go Vista for the expansion, they confirm this is not the case. What is interesting is the comment that they are busy working away on graphical improvements which is good news for those of us who have upgraded our systems since WoW was released, although there are no specifics on what is being improved at this time.



I'm not quite sure what to say about this. We haven't released any information about specific system requirements for the next expansion.



Keep in mind too that we have always tried to do our best to both advance the development of the game as well as balance the system requirements necessary so as to make the game as available to as many people as possible. We're not changing that philosophy. :)



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. ;)



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.