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

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

when you finally upgrade your computer to a supported OS....

all your steam games will still be here waiting for you....

your welcome...

[potato]

bye felicia

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Първоначално публикувано от Gahad:

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

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

Origin will drop support soon as well.

[Komarimaru]

Good news for ya, games will be here when you're on a more updated operating system.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Първоначално публикувано от 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

Yeah, be mad at Valve, considering Microsoft ended it's support for Windows 8 in January of 2016. It's totally Valve's fault... sarcasm.

Also Origin is dead. It was replaced by EA Desktop and I seriously doubt it supports Windows 8 either.

Also, would you care to explain how you would lose your library, since the library is tied to your Steam account it has nothing to do with your operating system?

[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.

[d3str0y3r]

Първоначално публикувано от C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Also Origin is dead. It was replaced by EA desktop and I seriously doubt it supports Windows 8 either.

It does, but for how long remains to be seen.

The EA app is available to all players on a (minimum) 64-bit PC system, running Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11.

[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.

[HistoricKombat]

Първоначално публикувано от 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?

They are angry for Valve dropping support for Windows 7 & 8 which confuses me since most new games today requires Windows 10. Actually, it is not Valve dropping support, it is Google since Valve's Steam browser runs on Chromium.

[DC-GS]

Mixing two different definitions of support.

If Microsoft dropped Win7/8 support, it "just" stopped patching and adding bu... Uhm, features.
But it still can run.

If Valve dropping support, Steam will not run at all.
Was the dependency on Chromium necessary? Nope, the library would run w/o for years until they changed it.

[wuddih]

"Origin" does no longer exist.

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Also Origin is dead. It was replaced by EA Desktop and I seriously doubt it supports Windows 8 either.

it does support 7/8.1 for the time being. i just would not expect that EA gives a 9 months headsup like Valve did.

atm:
EA app uses Qt5.12.2's WebEngine, which is a Chromium implementation, that this is Chromium 83 atm, from april 2020, even older than what Steam uses currently.

and lets face it, to build long-term maintainable applications, especially for cross-platform deployments ... there is nothing else to rely on for the next decade.

i guess EA can drag this a bit more out as their app has zero custom browsing capabilities provided to the user. Steam on the other hand should've been updated years ago.

[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.

[Tito Shivan]

Първоначално публикувано от Gahad:

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

Spoiler: Origin will also drop W8 support. Then what?

[Crazy Tiger]

OP, is your account getting deleted somehow? If not, you won's lose your library, merely access to it. But that's not the same.

[secuda]

If anything move to another OS.