[Bug 43298] World of Warcraft client reports ' Your OS will soon be unsupported, Support for Windows XP is ending soon' ( Blizzard is ending support for Windows XP and Vista)

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43298

Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |focht at gmx.net
           Keywords|                            |download
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID
            Summary|World of Warcraft and       |World of Warcraft client
                   |Windows XP out of date.     |reports 'Your OS will soon
                   |                            |be unsupported, Support for
                   |                            |Windows XP is ending soon'
                   |                            |(Blizzard is ending support
                   |                            |for Windows XP and Vista)
                URL|                            |https://eu.battle.net/downl
                   |                            |oad/getInstaller?os=win&ins
                   |                            |taller=World-of-Warcraft-Se
                   |                            |tup.exe
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED

--- Comment #2 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> ---
Hello folks,

what do you expect?

It's perfectly normal that vendors remove support for end-of-life Windows
versions, there is nothing Wine can do.

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20753178086

--- quote ---
Starting later this year, we will begin the process of ending support for
Windows XP and Windows Vista in World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III,
Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm. Microsoft ceased mainstream support for
these versions of Windows in 2009 and 2012, respectively, but since a decent
portion of our audience was still using them at the time, we continued
supporting them. However, there have been three major Windows releases since
Vista, and at this point, the vast majority of our audience has upgraded to one
of the newer versions.

After these older operating systems are no longer supported, the games will not
run on them, so we encourage any players who are still using one of the older
OSes to upgrade to a newer version. We’ll be rolling out this change on a
staggered schedule, and will post further notices as we get closer to making
the change for each game.
--- quote ---

Comment #1 already provided the solution: set the Windows version of the
WINEPREFIX to 'Windows 7'.

Next time please use Wine user forums first, thanks.

https://forum.winehq.org/

$ sha1sum World-of-Warcraft-Setup.exe 
d84b6d61defe1897cceab10ffbe12fa518b0ad7b  World-of-Warcraft-Setup.exe

$ du -sh World-of-Warcraft-Setup.exe 
3.1M    World-of-Warcraft-Setup.exe

$ wine --version
wine-2.12

Regards

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