A question to fellow Windows 7 users: does SoD 2 multiplayer still work for you?

[Dark Nero *=_VF_=*]

Despite Windows 10 is declared as a required OS to play State of Decay 2, this in fact is not true. I have been playing it on Windows 7 for a long time without any issues... until recently.

A week ago the game logged me out of Xbox live, and when I attempted to log in back, it fall into an infinite loop. I log in, the Xbox overlay welcomes me with a successful login, but then the game throws a pop-up window that the game "requires a valid Xbox live account". And then I log in again, I am welcomed by Microsoft overlay, but then SoD2 throws that pop-up again and logs me out. This is repeated infinitely. I tried to find out why my Xbox account is "invalid" - but everything is ok with the account, it is working and can be logged into on MS website.

I found a solution to this bug - right after Xbox overlay welcomes you back, press ALT+F4 and restart the game. After that login overlay no longer appears and the game can be played. But another issue appeared - upon hosting or joining a game, a pop-up "Checking account privileges" appears, then replacing itself with another pop-up "There was a problem checking your account privileges, please check your internet connection and try again later". I didn't find a solution to fix that, and google didn't help.

I thought about the facts:
1) The game had not been updated before the error appeared;
2) Nothing changed in my PC configuration/system that day.

Factoring in the above, I made an assumption that the problem is either on Under Labs backend side, or on the Microsoft backend. Maybe Microsoft found out that Windows 7 users can still play their multiplayer games and just banned us.

Since this OS is declared as unsupported, Undead Labs will not help me. That's why I am looking for fellow Windows 7 users who still play State of Decay 2 to either share with me that multiplayer still works for you, or confirm that it has just stopped working after all these years. If so, maybe we'll search for a solution together.

P.S. This is not the topic to discuss why I must install Windows 10. There might be technical/financial/legal/personal (pick any) reasons why this particular OS cannot be installed on this particular PC.

[WarBucks]

Not a windows 7 user but a couple people on windows 10 had issues with Nortons blocking the game, with out a popup or log entry.

Maybe the update 33 needs to be rewhitelisted in your antivirus or firewall? Maybe look for any logs referenceing the xbox live dll in the games folder?

I really doubt microsoft went out of their way to block anyone, but who knows APIs like Live change pretty often

[Requiem]

I just tested and State of Decay 2 worked just fine on my Windows 7 computer.

[Requiem]

Forget about what I said by the way. I entirely missed that you wrote multiplayer. I started up the game and player singleplayer for a while and that worked just fine.

When I was going to play some coop today I could not hosts games like I used to be able to do. So my friend hosted instead and sent me an invite to join through steam. I accepted the invite from steam and that did not work either.