Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1::Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    11 months ago

    Then don’t buy your games on Steam if you don’t like the way they do business, you’ve got other options, vote with your wallet and only buy DRM free games.

    You still wouldn’t be able to play those Windows 98 games if they were bought on Steam, because they’ve stopped supporting that OS ages ago and for good reasons. It doesn’t support modern tech, it doesn’t receive security updates, there’s no point wasting money on supporting it, just like there’s no point wasting money on supporting an OS that hasn’t received a security update in close to a year and that less than 2% of users are using until they finally move on to the next version.

    • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      11 months ago

      Then don’t buy your games on Steam if you don’t like the way they do business, you’ve got other options, vote with your wallet and only buy DRM free games.

      I wasn’t expecting they would take away the games I legally purchased.

      You’re really okay with Steam being able to take away all the games you purchased whenever it feels like doing this? A rich asshole like Elon Musk could buy Steam and shut it down just to fuck with people, saying he just wanted the employees or some piece of tech. You wouldn’t complain at all if that happened?

      You still wouldn’t be able to play those Windows 98 games if they were bought on Steam

      That’s why I buy them on GOG and not Steam.

      • Syntha@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        That’s why I buy them on GOG and not Steam.

        So all your stupid posturing in this thread was just to bait people into an argument with you?

        • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          11 months ago

          Nope. You are contributing nothing, so I’d rather you didn’t argue.

          • Syntha@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Well, it only took me one comment to contribute nothing, you needed like two dozen comments for that

            • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              Actually I learned there is a Steam DRM emulator. I also learned that I definitely do not want to give Steam any more money because they reserve the right to steal your entire game library at any time. So this has been very productive for me.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        41·
        11 months ago

        Look at the EULA, you’re not buying the game, you’re buying the right to play it and that right can be taken from you at any time, that’s been the main criticism against the switch to digital platforms from the moment Steam started existing and if you had taken 30 seconds to think about it you would have realized it. Heck, just the fact that you can get banned from Steam and lose access to your library should have made that pretty fucking clear!

        That's why I buy them on GOG and not Steam.

        Make up your fucking mind, do you or do you not buy games on Steam?

        GOG didn’t exist in 2003, Steam supported Windows 9x then and one day they stopped supporting it, so you probably have games on it that went from being playable to not being playable on W98 or XP or Vista. You never stopped to think about that when deciding to continue running an OS that reached its end of life?

        • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          11 months ago

          Look at the EULA, you’re not buying the game, you’re buying the right to play it and that right can be taken from you at any time, Heck, just the fact that you can get banned from Steam and lose access to your library should have made that pretty fucking clear!

          WOW WTF??. That does it. I will definitely not give Steam another dime.

          That’s why I buy them on GOG and not Steam. Make up your fucking mind, do you or do you not buy games on Steam?

          I bought many games that originally played on Win 98 you were talking about on GOG and play them on Win 10.

          I stupidly bought Axis and Allies Online a week ago on Steam. Learned I cannot play it on Windows 7 after one week. Then learned I could have bought it on GOG instead without the ridiculous DRM.