Legacy Version of Steam for Windows 7 Users please?

[Sooh]

Steam should offer us a Legacy Version instead of menacing us of closing our account with a (Windows 10 Only).

All games that run on windows 7 but not on windows 10, what you doing about that?
After 2024, i dont care if Steam stop supporting windows 7 officially, that mean all new update will not work with a basic acces to the Market Place or no market place at all.

yes it's possible to have a Legacy Version, dont tell me it's not..if we can send people to the moon.. come on! it's only lines of codes.

So let's face it.. if Steam do nothing about it, someone will crack it and patch it to make it work on Windows 7.

[potato]

lol that ain't gonna happen as it would be a major security risk that valve isn't gonna take for the 1%

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Sooh:

All games that run on windows 7 but not on windows 10, what you doing about that?
.

Please, NAME those games. This argument comes up in all the threads about the topic but NO ONE can name a single game that runs on Windows 7 but not on Windows 10.

And with "not run" i mean "not able to play at all", not " 20 second ini edit to get it to run".
Thats just PC gaming.

[mikeboydus]

Originally posted by potato:

lol that ain't gonna happen as it would be a major security risk that valve isn't gonna take for the 1%

Not sure how accurate 1% is, but if it is accurate that is over 12 million users.

That is also roughly the same number of people who use MacOS and more than Linux

The bigger issue here is money, if its cheaper to drop all support there will be no legacy client.

[potato]

Originally posted by mikeboydus:

Not sure how accurate 1% is, but if it is accurate that is over 12 million users.

12 million potato users

99% of them aren't on gaming pcs and an insignificant part of the market

[Nx Machina]

Every game i have on my PC runs on Win 10 x64 22H2 including games from the Win 7 era. How do i know? Because i upgraded a few years ago from Win 7 when a game required Win 10.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by Sooh:

Legacy Version of Steam for Windows 7 Users please?

There wasn't one for 98/XP/Vista. There won't be one for 7/8.1. Like there won't be one at the end of this decade for 10/11.

Doesn't matter how many people make up that 1.6% of Steam users. 1.6% is still a negligible amount compared to the 98.4% who are using current OSes. Such a small amount of the total isn't economically viable to support no matter how much you wish it were.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by mikeboydus:

Not sure how accurate 1% is, but if it is accurate that is over 12 million users.

That is also roughly the same number of people who use MacOS and more than Linux

The bigger issue here is money, if its cheaper to drop all support there will be no legacy client.

It cannot be accurate when the hardware survey is optional not mandatory. That 1% could be 300,000.

[Sooh]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Originally posted by Sooh:

Legacy Version of Steam for Windows 7 Users please?

There wasn't one for 98/XP/Vista. There won't be one for 7/8.1. Like there won't be one at the end of this decade for 10/11.

Doesn't matter how many people make up that 1.6% of Steam users. 1.6% is still a negligible amount compared to the 98.4% who are using current OSes. Such a small amount of the total isn't economically viable to support no matter how much you wish it were.

if steam really goes that way, it's really bad for their reputation... At this point, i suppose Steam has been bought by Google.

[Sooh]

Originally posted by potato:

lol that ain't gonna happen as it would be a major security risk that valve isn't gonna take for the 1%

What kind of security Risk? when you try to connect to an account, it goes through Steam Servers.. how my apprently Bad OS can influance on that? XD steam servers are as bad??.

Anyway with the TONES of cracked games that run on steam.. it's clearly not for a security problem lol.

[potato]

Originally posted by Sooh:

Originally posted by potato:

lol that ain't gonna happen as it would be a major security risk that valve isn't gonna take for the 1%

What kind of security Risk? when you try to connect to an account, it goes through Steam Servers.. how my apprently Bad OS can influance on that? XD steam servers are as bad??.

Anyway with the TONES of cracked games that run on steam.. it's clearly not for a security problem lol.

part of running a distribution platform is making sure your client is secure, they wouldn't be able to do that for a client running on outdated and unsupported operating systems

[mikeboydus]

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Originally posted by mikeboydus:

Not sure how accurate 1% is, but if it is accurate that is over 12 million users.

That is also roughly the same number of people who use MacOS and more than Linux

The bigger issue here is money, if its cheaper to drop all support there will be no legacy client.

It cannot be accurate when the hardware survey is optional not mandatory. That 1% could be 300,000.

or higher, since the global market share is around 5%. I imagine the actual number is probably close to 3% of the actual user base, probably more than 12 million Win 7 users, most of them located in non-English speaking countries.

[Sooh]

well, 12 millions is a huge amount of people. I dont understand their move. At least, Steam should stop Update for windows 7 but let us with our library and the possibility to play with friends. I mean.. if we can play with Hamachi pretty easy.. why would it be complicated for Steam to have access to the Servers?

Other than security, what is the problem they are facing? do they plan to use Dx12? because other than Dx12,what windows 7 can't do that windows 10 can?

and what about Linux? they will stop it too, or?..

[Rollandusa]

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[KalGimpa]

Originally posted by Sooh:

well, 12 millions is a huge amount of people. I dont understand their move. At least, Steam should stop Update for windows 7 but let us with our library and the possibility to play with friends. I mean.. if we can play with Hamachi pretty easy.. why it should be complicated for Steam?

Other than security, what is the problem they are facing? do they plan to use Dx12? because other than Dx12,what windows 7 can't do that windows 10 can?

and what about Linux? they will stop it too, or?..

my response from another thread that said close to the same thing

Originally posted by KalCuey:

Originally posted by Lystent:

According to what I've been told in this thread, I, who has a win 7, some 10s and a 11 with steam am not counted. But if I were, I have a feeling that only one of my computers would've been counted (first come, first serve I guess). So If I were opted-in whilst on my win 11, which I barely game on due to it being a weak mini pc of which my 7 puts to shame, then I guess that would've tainted the data.

well,if the people in this thread said it, it must be so

right?

think hard about this

who is going to have the data to let us know who is using their system

valve/steam

or rando's on the net that think they found the answer by using whatever calculations they decided?