League of Legends won’t support Windows XP from next year

Microsoft ended its own official support for Windows XP in 2014. It followed suit with Windows Vista three years later. Which is why I’m surprised that only now is League of Legends developer Riot Games bringing an end to its MOBA’s support of the now-antiquated operating system. In an announcement last week, the developer revealed that as of May 2019, “League of Legends is going to stop supporting Windows XP and Windows Vista.” The statement mentions that Microsoft no longer supports either operating system with security updates, making it “harder every day for us to maintain a secure League of Legends experience,” for a very small number of players. According to Riot, fewer than one percent of players are still using XP, and Vista is even less popular among its player base. That’s not an insignificant number, however - if we assume that the most recently-reported player counts are accurate, as many as 800,000 League of Legends players may be using XP alone, with Vista likely pushing that number into seven figures.

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