I was wondering if anyone knows about this, and when it eventually will occur?
https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/17625552451

It's posted by the 22st Jan 2019, and the reset 6. June did not include a patch update.

I use an old computer for the joy of Diablo II, and there I still use Vista.
So this a useful info for me to get, as the next reset day has been released and I want to be prepared, if they going to make a patch up-date.

Might be the wrong forum, but didnt know else to post it.

In advance thanks for the help i can get.

This post was edited by Chestk on Nov 27 2019 08:45am

Please tell me you're not connecting to the internet with vista in 2019

This post was edited by Worrywart on Nov 28 2019 12:04am

What the point of this message?
Beside boosting you 65k post

Let me put it this way, I rather use Vista than being an internet jerk.

Please update your operating system to one that isn't hopelessly compromised beyond the ability of your firewall to fix

Vista is no longer secure .

I know about Vista - the q was nothing about security.
But the most Secure thing here is people cant read.

This post was edited by Chestk on Nov 29 2019 07:17am

damn, this sucks. They supported it for a very long time. I don’t like to keep updating. But im not forced to update anything. Fortunately, d2 has an offline mode. And it can be run in other operating systems like linux and osx. At the end of the day, you still got your options. Just pick one and go with it.

I haven’t used windows as a primary os since 2010. It is slow, attracts all kinds of malicious programs, and security is garbage. However, there are some good programs written for it. Which is why i only run windows os as a virtual machine.

I read your post perfectly well

If blizzard has not announced a date for the patch, how is anyone here supposed to know?

If you looked at the bigger picture security is the reason for all this, why they are eventually going to stop d2 working on old OS

If you wait for goodness knows how long they decide on a date you are playing unsecure enviroment.
I was just trying to help, but if you want to continue its your PC and D2 account

This post was edited by kai_jph on Nov 29 2019 08:49am

Blizzard ended support for Windows XP and Vista in July 2017.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-ends-support-for-its-games-on-windows-xp-/1100-6451859/

The date in the post says January 2019 because that's when a community manager decided to post it, not when they ended support.

Basically all support for D2 ended a very long time ago and Blizzard can't be bothered to do things like update their website, or update the messages in the game itself, to reflect the ladder resets.

The last in game Battle.net news says something about merging the Asia realms from December 5, 2017.

If you currently attempt to download the game officially through Blizzard after purchasing it from the Blizzard store or by registering your old CDKeys and download the game from Blizzard, on Windows XP. Windows Vista, there is no support and I don't think it works correctly (correct me if I am wrong.)

The downloader barely works on Windows 10, with the interface being broken, but the game does download and install correctly.

To get D2 to work correctly after installed on Windows 10, you will likely need to set the compatibility option to "Windows 98/Me" or "Windows XP Service Pack 2" and add the following arguements to the command line to start the game: "-w" for windowed mode and "-ns" for no sound.

Depending on your hardware configuration, D2 will not run Windows 10 with sound enabled with out instantly crashing with an access violation error/error with no description.

Also: One of these days, all of the battle.net characters will be wiped out and lost forever.

As the underlying "database" technology that stores this data is so arcane that not many people on Earth actually knows how it works or how to update it and the ones that do, can't be bothered.

If u want to know if u can play battle.net through Windows xp , yes u can ! I am still doing it !