Re: Steam finally kills Win7/8 support

On 25/11/2024 20:01, Zaghadka wrote:

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:49:47 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
 

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It's no surprise --Valve announced their intentions way back in late
2023!-- but now it's finallly happened.* The newest versions of Steam
will no longer run on Windows 7 or 8 (or MacOS 10.13/10.14). So if you
still have a Windows 7 gaming PC, well... say goodbye to any
Steam-launched games on that system.
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Time to upgrade those old Win7 machines to Linux, I guess.
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* as of November 5th. Okay, I'm a bit late with the announcement ;-)
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/4472730495692571025
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 You know, we were worried about Steam in the early days for the wrong
reasons. It looks like we will (mostly) always have access to our games,
but planned platform obsolescence in the client requires us to upgrade
our OS software beyond compatibility with the older titles. We lose our
games _that_ way. Did not see that coming.
 Is it still possible to download your games with an old client? If not,
then that's the problem. That Steam insists on only its latest version.
 

I can't say it worried me as I just thought about it as part and parcel of as the OS progresses some older games will become unplayable. From a practical point of view I'm just not going to do that. Now that doesn't mean I don't think Valve should probably be a bit more creative in a solution to cater for people who do want to play older titles.
What I didn't see was publishers just removing games for 'reasons'. How long before some C-exec thinks it's a good idea* to remove a game solely to boost the sales of what they've just released?
*Waits to be told this has already happened.