Windows 7 no longer supported

[Tuathaa-wyrmrest-accord (Tuathaa)]

That’s right party people… If you want to play the brand new classic World of Warcraft you’re going to have to upgrade that Microsoft Windows 7 to 10.

You are aware that they are using the 7.3 client.
Why on earth would they put development time into an already developed client to include a feature that woukd offer 0 improvement to classic?

[Øathbreaker-kargath (Øathbreaker)]

Would you like to bring anything else to the table? Perhaps how Blizzard will only be offering Classic in a box of ​3 ½ Inch Floppy Disks with a non GUI launcher that only works in native MS-DOS?

DOS/4G Protected Mode Run-Time Version 1.97
Copyright © Rational Systems, INC. 1990-1994

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Will be a must!

[Gildark-senjin (Gildark)]

Well this little gem was posted in GD yesterday, which seems to indicate that they are just fine with not only supporting Windows 7, but making it better than it had been…

@Kaivax

After we saw the performance gains of using multi-threaded rendering in DirectX 12 for the initial Tides of Vengeance update, we worked together with Microsoft and our hardware vendors to bring similar performance gains to our Windows 7 users. We are pleased to announce that with today’s content update, World of Warcraft will now support DirectX 12 on Windows 7. This allows our Windows 7 users to take advantage of the performance benefit of using DirectX 12, which was previously only available to our Windows 10 users.

Windows 7 users will need to make sure they have the latest graphics drivers to use DirectX 12. If your GPU supports DirectX 12 on Windows 7, you may enable it by selecting it in the Advanced System settings, under “Graphics API”.

DirectX Developer Blog

World of Warcraft uses DirectX 12 running on Windows 7

Blizzard added DirectX 12 support for their award-winning World of Warcraft game on Windows 10 in late 2018. This release received a warm welcome from gamers: thanks to DirectX 12 features such as multi-threading, WoW gamers experienced substantial…

[Mogar-stormrage (Mogar)]

Well this little gem was posted in GD yesterday, which seems to indicate that they are just fine with not only supporting Windows 7, but making it better than it had been…

Yup. OP is just trolling. Report him and move on.

[Cilivia-illidan (Cilivia)]

DX12 is avalible on Windows 7 as of today (Due to Blizzard pressure)

https:// www. theverge. com/2019/3/13/18263422/microsoft-directx-12-windows-7-world-of-warcraft-support

[Diavalo-caelestrasz (Diavalo)]

DX12 is avalible on Windows 7 as of today (Due to Blizzard pressure)

Only for certain games - unfortunately, not the entire client. And at this stage, that only game is World of Warcraft.