

It is sensible to switch away if possible. Even Microsoft have finished updating and fixing the OSes, leaving them increasingly vulnerable to security holes. The Steam client, housing many games, waited until this very month to ditch them.

Blizzard Entertainment dropped XP and Vista support in their current games, including fellow action-RPG Diablo 3, in 2017. Many newer games haven't supported XP or Vista in years, relying on technologies that don't work with them or considering them simply not popular enough to merit the extra work, though many ongoing games kept at it for a fair while. All of this, they say, will let them better focus their time as well as let them make the game run faster Grinding Gear also plan to scrap the game's old DirectX 9 version. The fine free-to-play action-RPG's developers, Grinding Gear Games, say that "only 0.1%" of their active users use either operating system, which are which are respectively 12 and 17 years old. The tiny fraction of folks still running Windows XP or Vista will soon lose another current game, as Path Of Exile will stop working on them after an impending update.
