Re: Steam finally kills Win7/8 support

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:48:41 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

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:

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.

It's happened. Try buying the classic "Grand Theft Auto III" games now
that the "Definitive Edition" trilogy has been released. For a while,
EA did the same thing with the original "Star Wars: Battlefront" games
in favor of the 2015/20179 reboots, although they've seen relented.

Valve, though, is legally safe in this regard. Not only does their
EULA protect them, they can argue that they are still providing you a
way to access your 'property'... you just need to update your computer
and OS!

From what I understand, most of these deprecations aren't directly
caused by Valve, but by their use of Chromium as the underlying
framework in Steam. Chromium (the open-source version of Google
Chrome) no longer supports Win7/8... so Steam doesn't either. I mean,
sure Valve _could_ hack in support for older operating systems... but
they're just a tiny resource-strapped organization so we shouldn't
expect that sort of extravagance from them ;-)