Sever going down

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@Rambush-rattlegore

Don’t let me tell you how to live your life, but if you are that poor, why are you wasting $15/mo or whatever the exchange rate in your country is, on WoW? How many pound or kilos of rice could that buy in your country?

Well, we are not talking about $15/mo we are talking about potentially have to upgrade the whole setup.

[Nosaferatu-azralon]

Actually 5kg of rice just reached 15 converted dollars. Sad times.

[Rambush-rattlegore]

@Johnoliver-proudmoore

and then unsub

Those are considered acceptable losses, just like what happened when they cut XP and 32 bit support.

@Johnoliver-proudmoore

Its not justifiable to ask so many people to just go out and buy a new PC

They aren’t asking anyone to do anything. Do it or don’t, it’s your call. Your system no longer meets the minimum requirements. What you do with that information is on you. However, demand they to continue to code around older instruction sets indefinitely because the “game runs fine” for you otherwise is the pinnacle of selfishness.

they aren’t going to hobble together support for these CPUs forever. Like I said before, this is writing on the wall. CPUs aren’t supported by magic and the simple fact they exist and are a CPU. It requires human effort and intentionally choosing to not utilize newer instructions set to continue to support increasingly aging hardware.

Every time I see threads like these, I just stop and imagine where we would be if developers and CPU manufacturers listen to the people who demanded that progress stop on software development because they didn’t want to have to upgrade their IBM 486 CPUs because they “just worked” otherwise.

[Ahleesa-malganis]

It’s your choice to either A) upgrade your potato in order to play the game -or- B) Don’t upgrade your potato and not be able to play the game.

Also realize that in certain situations, putting undue stress on one piece of hardware can cause implications to other pieces of hardware eventually leading to being forced to replace more than one item. That alone is reason enough to stop trying to play a game your setup isn’t suited for.

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@Rambush-rattlegore

Those are considered acceptable losses, just like what happened when they cut XP and 32 bit support.

You don’t know that, only they have the information if this loss is acceptable or not. Well I guess we’ll see, if they fix, these loss is not acceptable.

[Rambush-rattlegore]

Again, its entirely possibly that they may be able to hobble together a solution.

But regardless of what happens with this specific issue, the takeaway that you need to get from this is that the writing is on the wall for these CPUs.

I don’t know if you are familiar with that saying, though I doubt it’s a idiom specific to America, but in case you aren’t it means that its obvious that there are very clear signs that something bad is going to happen in the near future.

These CPUs are done for, in the context of wow. Upgrade or don’t, its your decision.

[Nosaferatu-azralon]

Well, they published this system requirements on 30 of august. 2 months before the launch. If the were writing on the wall, they should noticed us before we spend money on expansion. If they state, as you are saying, in the next expansion this or those will not be supported, that’s fair, I’ll work on upgrading the hardwares then.

But states that a minor issue that might well be poor coding, is an unsupported hardware issue in so short notice, is awful.

They published BFA System requirements 7 months before launch, for comparison.

[Zionna-zangarmarsh]

I use this CPU. I’m a single mom living on a super tight budget. And included in my super tight budget, is the entertainment allowance I’ve given myself for years and years of $15/ month. I’ve taken time off from the game when I needed that money for other things. I’ve been a player since BC. I don’t go out to eat, and do free things like walking and going to the library. I have nothing left after I pay my bills. The math for me to get a new motherboard, 16G RAM, i5 CPU, case, graphics card, 2 TB HDD, power supply, SSD (my son says I need a 500G one) is over $678.00 before taxes. This is a budget build with no fancypants stuff. And that doesn’t include a monitor. My current monitor doesn’t have an HDMI port. And I got it as a hand me down over 10 years ago.
I’m chiming in as support for this little fix. My computer runs the game totally fine. Nothing on high settings, but I’m totally happy with that. If it ever comes to it that WoW can’t update things for me anymore, then I totally understand. I just don’t understand why people feel the need to make others feel bad.

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@Rambush-rattlegore

Those are considered acceptable losses, just like what happened when they cut XP and 32 bit support.

Also worth to mention that a company that is closing offices, firing people and on the edge of a unions workers strike are not in position to take “acceptable losses”.