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The devs exasperation at the many users complaining about the lack of W7 support simply shows how out of touch Sega or Feral is with modern gaming and the proper approach to computing; user control. Blizzard literally paid Microsoft (likely millions of dollars) for a Windows 7 DX12 patch so that World of Warcraft would run on Windows 7. That's how important Windows 7 is to gaming. RTW:R does not even have the excuse of implementing new technical features that older operating systems do not support. Their only excuse is time and money which they will have wasted more of when they go back to the programmers asking for them to add w7 support which should have been in their priorities from the beginning.
In lots of other situations, there would be no refund option, just a case of buyer beware. Otherwise known as read the small print.
The system requirements do claim that windows 7 and windows 8 are supported because DX11 is supported. If you read my technical explanation, you'll know that there's no good reason for RTW to not run on windows 7 or 8.1.
Game companies don't decide what their games run on. User-bases do.
Most gamers are still on Windows 7 for a variety of reasons: User control and customization, less bloatware, less spyware, speed, good control panel, a working searchbar, no forced updates, few to no OS bugs/crashes, no half-baked forced updates that delete your files or crash your computer, etc. The better question is? Why are you still on Windows 10? It's a downgrade not an upgrade. I'm on WIndows 8.1 because it uses 10% less system resources than W7 and W10 most of the good things that W10 has without any of its design flaws. W10 may send every keypress to Microsoft. Imagine working on private tax data and someone at Microsoft could be looking at that. Huge security risk.
Why did I buy it? Because not running on W7 and W8.1 isn't excusable. If this was a VR game that used the latest W10 technical features. Then sure. RTW isn't that. All they're doing is hurting their own financial gain. Even if you have W10, you can't even run the game on Vulkan instead of DX11 or they don't tell us how. They've done a silly pedantic versioning system for no reason.
MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 10 64-bit (version 1809)
I agree. It's not as if they've hidden the specification for the game away from prying eyes and was on full display as a Windows 10 compatible game prior to release
He has no excuse to be whinging and whining when he knows fully well that he needs to adapt or be left behind.
What is this some kind of joke post or something? You can't be serious!
Left behind. Ha, you'll be feeling stupid the next time you're effected by a Windows 10 update bug that bricks your PC or deletes files.
What I am advocating for are very basic expectations for a video game. In the W95 and W98 era games ran seamlessly between the two systems. These changes would directly benefited Windows 10 users too btw, you having access to Vulkan on the windows 10 platform is a good thing not a bad thing.
What a bunch of nonsense.
Requirements never claimed anything beyond W10, that you believed you could get it to run on W7 'cause it uses DX11' ... yeah, and W10 ...
Yes game companies do decide what their games are developed on. If you can get it to run on an unsupported OS, great, nothing has been decided by you.
Most gamers clearly have moved to W10, not even interested in where you found your idea that most gamers are still on W7.
I know about Steam. Steam is somewhat unusual. I'm talking about purchasing situations in general, buying products generally. You would not be offered a refund in many situations for your failure to actually check what you're buying first before you part with your money. Heard of caveat emptor?
With digital purchases elsewhere, in many cases the small print will say once you've purchased this download, that's it, you cannot "return" it.