Windows 8 support discontinued... time to move to Origin

[Gahad]

I won't be spending any more at Steam... I will lose my entire game library in less than a year... Good bye Steam

[davidb11]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Valve is dropping support for Win


This. It's not a question of if, but when.

Origin is dead on ALL windows platforms as of a few months ago. If anyone wants to keep using Origin, they need an Intel Mac

I don't recall any news about that, and it would be everywhere.
Weird.

[potato]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Originally posted by Satoru:

Origin is dead on ALL windows platforms as of a few months ago. If anyone wants to keep using Origin, they need an Intel Mac

I don't recall any news about that, and it would be everywhere.
Weird.

it was everywhere, maybe you were in a cave the past six months

https://gg.deals/blog/the-origin-store-is-officially-closed-all-games-are-now-available-on-eacom/

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Originally posted by Satoru:

Origin is dead on ALL windows platforms as of a few months ago. If anyone wants to keep using Origin, they need an Intel Mac

I don't recall any news about that, and it would be everywhere.
Weird.

https://gg.deals/blog/electronic-arts-is-shutting-down-origin-the-launcher-is-getting-replaced-by-the-ea-app/

Edit: Lol potato beat me to it

[davidb11]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by davidb11:

I don't recall any news about that, and it would be everywhere.
Weird.

it was everywhere, maybe you were in a cave the past six months

https://gg.deals/blog/the-origin-store-is-officially-closed-all-games-are-now-available-on-eacom/

Oh. I see.
Sorry, I misunderstood what he was saying.
Also, I don't pay attention to news sources any more.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Oh. I see.
Sorry, I misunderstood what he was saying.
Also, I don't pay attention to news sources any more.

I mean, your " i did not hear of that at all" is kinda explained by " i don't pay attention to news sources any more" , dont you think?

[davidb11]

I get like all my news from the Steam forums, and I didn't see anything about it here.

[HistoricKombat]

Originally posted by Shizune:

Originally posted by davidb11:

I don't recall any news about that, and it would be everywhere.
Weird.

https://gg.deals/blog/electronic-arts-is-shutting-down-origin-the-launcher-is-getting-replaced-by-the-ea-app/

Edit: Lol potato beat me to it

I'll be honest, I missed the news though it does not make much of difference since I didn't care for Origin, and I doubt the EA App is any different.

[Karumati]

Originally posted by HistoricKombat:

Originally posted by Shizune:

https://gg.deals/blog/electronic-arts-is-shutting-down-origin-the-launcher-is-getting-replaced-by-the-ea-app/

Edit: Lol potato beat me to it

I'll be honest, I missed the news though it does not make much of difference since I didn't care for Origin, and I doubt the EA App is any different.

Ea app is worse than origin

[Mofuji]

All that has to be done is make a lighter version of Steam that just handles installing of games. Strip out all the crap that needs Chromium.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by HistoricKombat:

So you move from Steam to DRM that sells mostly EA games. Would make more sense to move to Epic Games since they offer more games from other publishers.

And I think their client stopped supporting Windows 7 already.

Originally posted by Mofuji:

All that has to be done is make a lighter version of Steam that just handles installing of games. Strip out all the crap that needs Chromium.

And how does it install games if it can't communicate with the verification servers hmmm? See that's the cruxz. COmmunication. The clinet relies on certain APIs and libraris, as well as certificates and protiocols in windows. If windows doesn't have those, then there can be no communication. SImple as.

[jamoecw]

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

I want one of you guys who uses 7 or 8 to thoroughly explain this to me. Microsoft ended support for these operating systems years ago and they made the damn software. Why are you angry at Valve for supporting the operating system longer than Microsoft did?

To further explain what I'm talking about, support for Windows 8 ended in 2016. Valve will support it until 2024. That's eight damn years longer than Microsoft supported it.

Window 7 was the last Windows OS that did not REQUIRE 'support' from Microsoft. It continued to support the extra little things like Windows Defender to this day, and since Windows 7 did not launch with security there are plenty of third party security suites that work better than Defender and are free as well. Add in the ability to wait on bugged patches until Microsoft fixes the patches that 8/10/11 lack (this happens more than you would think) and the catchup that Microsoft had to do to compete with the 'Dark Web Version' as far as security goes means you end up with one of the most stable secure version of Windows around (if updated and cared for properly instead of just keeping it out of laziness). as for keeping Win8, a few systems can run 8 but not 10.

Originally posted by Cypher Raige:

I hope this is bait and not serious.

You can update from Windows 8/8.1 to 10 for free. It costs you nothing and it's a much better OS.

99% true, some of the systems made right before Win 8 was rolling out could handle 8 but not 10, so there might be some cost for some people.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by jamoecw:

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

I want one of you guys who uses 7 or 8 to thoroughly explain this to me. Microsoft ended support for these operating systems years ago and they made the damn software. Why are you angry at Valve for supporting the operating system longer than Microsoft did?

To further explain what I'm talking about, support for Windows 8 ended in 2016. Valve will support it until 2024. That's eight damn years longer than Microsoft supported it.

Window 7 was the last Windows OS that did not REQUIRE 'support' from Microsoft. It continued to support the extra little things like Windows Defender to this day, and since Windows 7 did not launch with security there are plenty of third party security suites that work better than Defender and are free as well. Add in the ability to wait on bugged patches until Microsoft fixes the patches that 8/10/11 lack (this happens more than you would think) and the catchup that Microsoft had to do to compete with the 'Dark Web Version' as far as security goes means you end up with one of the most stable secure version of Windows around (if updated and cared for properly instead of just keeping it out of laziness). as for keeping Win8, a few systems can run 8 but not 10.

Originally posted by Cypher Raige:

I hope this is bait and not serious.

You can update from Windows 8/8.1 to 10 for free. It costs you nothing and it's a much better OS.

99% true, some of the systems made right before Win 8 was rolling out could handle 8 but not 10, so there might be some cost for some people.

What patches do 8/10/11 lack particularly? If a CVE is posted regarding Windows, then all supported versions will get patched.

Systems manufactured with Windows 8 pre-installed will run 10 just fine. If a system could run 8 but not 10 then it most likely couldn't run 8.1 either, and that was some very early x64 processors that were like that, I think the original Athlon 64 for instance lacking the CMPXCHG16B instruction. Windows 10 (and 11 to be honest) also work fine on WDDM 1.2 and 1.3 drivers, you just don't get any of the enhancements from WDDM 2.x/3.x drivers.

[jamoecw]

Originally posted by Crashed:

Originally posted by jamoecw:

stuff

What patches do 8/10/11 lack particularly? If a CVE is posted regarding Windows, then all supported versions will get patched.

Systems manufactured with Windows 8 pre-installed will run 10 just fine. If a system could run 8 but not 10 then it most likely couldn't run 8.1 either, and that was some very early x64 processors that were like that, I think the original Athlon 64 for instance lacking the CMPXCHG16B instruction. Windows 10 (and 11 to be honest) also work fine on WDDM 1.2 and 1.3 drivers, you just don't get any of the enhancements from WDDM 2.x/3.x drivers.

they lack the ability to wait on specific patches. if you know a patch is bugged you can simply not install it on 7 until Microsoft releases a non-bugged patch. 8 and on you can only delay patching for 2 weeks.

"Systems manufactured with Windows 8 pre-installed will run 10 just fine." this is correct and has nothing to do with what i said, given that some systems were made with the paper requirements before 8 was released, and could run 8, but could not run 10 later on. they were obviously not sold with an OS installed that wasn't released yet, unless it was an indie outfit that loaded 8 on after it was released for a system they built pre-release.

[Qbert ⭐]

Originally posted by Gahad:

I won't be spending any more at Steam... I will lose my entire game library in less than a year... Good bye Steam

Im going to laugh so hard when you found out about Origin's plan to drop w7 and 8.1 in 2024

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

Originally posted by Cypher Raige:

I hope this is bait and not serious.

You can update from Windows 8/8.1 to 10 for free. It costs you nothing and it's a much better OS.

then upgrade to win11 after that