LOL! Are you kidding me?

[PoseMotion]

Steam updating because it wants to rely on Google Chrome is a joke. Write your own code and quite relying on a business that put more ads all over the internet than any other company. Also, no game client needs to be 64 bit. If it does, hire a better coder. You have a memory leak.

[Zefar]

Steam is a 32bit client with the exception of the Mac client because Apple said "Every app needs to be 64Bit" and killed support for 32bit apps.

[Crazy Tiger]

Steam isn't 64 bit on windows, nor will it be. And it's build on CEF.

Unless people go the consumer agency/lawyer route, coming Jan 1st support for Win 7/8 will be dropped by Steam.

[PoseMotion]

Escrito originalmente por Crazy Tiger:

Steam isn't 64 bit on windows, nor will it be. And it's build on CEF.

Unless people go the consumer agency/lawyer route, coming Jan 1st support for Win 7/8 will be dropped by Steam.

Escrito originalmente por Zefar:

Steam is a 32bit client with the exception of the Mac client because Apple said "Every app needs to be 64Bit" and killed support for 32bit apps.

The main topic was Steam relying on Google Chrome. The internet plague/ad company. The 64 bit was an added comment just because you can see it coming. Kind of like what Origin EA just did.

[Crazy Tiger]

Steam is build on CEF, not Chrome. Most game clients are build on CEF as well, mind.

[wuddih]

Steam is using on CEF, Chromium Embedded Framework, a widely used embedded browsing solution
"embedded version of Google Chrome" is just the "normal human" lingo for it.

and you. do. not. simply. write your own web browser.

[N3tRunn3r]

Ask Wikipedia about CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework)[en.wikipedia.org] and take a look, which applications do use it.

[fluxtorrent]

Tell us you know nothing about development without telling us lol

[raditz]

Interesting rant. Especially the 64 bit part. Not smart, but interesting. Anyway. Now this topic is a thing, here's my 5 cents:

a, My wishlist is falling apart (under Chrome), if I try to reorder it, the browser dies (feels like an eternal loop but I didn't bother looking at it, a week or so ago it was OK). That's something they should fix indeed.

b, Opening links in my selected (default) browser rather than inside the client should be an option.
In-game, well, maybe I'm asking too much, but I don't use that anyway as it doesn't have an adblocker (also not allowing to add extensions to it - such as adblocker...), so it's basically useless, ALT+TAB and that's it.

c, Gabe should learn to count to 3. It would be about time.

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

again, steam does NOT use google chrome

steam USES chromium

2 different things

[davidb11]

Chrome is a good browser, but it has nothing to do with what Steam is doing.
Can people stop getting upset over a complete non-issue.

Upgrade or be left behind.

[SteeamRentShop]

Steam don't have any resource nor manpower to do it, don't you know they're just a small indie company?

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I own the game I bought, but at the same time I don't own it.
Gamestore as a service, what a joke.

[davidb11]

Escrito originalmente por ChillBill:

Steam don't have any resource nor manpower to do it, don't you know they're just a small indie company?

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I own the game I bought, but at the same time I don't own it.
Gamestore as a service, what a joke.

None of that makes any sense.
No logic in keeping an old OS.
They can all be run via Virtual Machines any how.

[SteeamRentShop]

Escrito originalmente por davidb11:

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None of that makes any sense.
No logic in keeping an old OS.
They can all be run via Virtual Machines any how.

Upgrade or be left behind. *while pointing a gun at my whole library
Is that make more sense to you?

Leave me behind (I don't even see any game post 2020 worth playing, let alone buying it) but don't take hostage of my whole library,
all of them could be played offline-singleplayer and not one single game in there have win10 as a requirement to run.
Make a small team, create a minimal-function-client that only do drm checks(no store, no steam forum, no friendlist, no ads, no multiplayer function or whatever), while we're at it...let us be the free $ alpha/beta tester, win-win, too logical?

[davidb11]

IT makes no sense to not update.
I already explained why it's not valid to stay behind

VM can run.

IT took me forever to upgrade to Windows 10, and I did.

[Wolfgang421]

Escrito originalmente por ChillBill:

Escrito originalmente por davidb11:

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None of that makes any sense.
No logic in keeping an old OS.
They can all be run via Virtual Machines any how.

Upgrade or be left behind. *while pointing a gun at my whole library
Is that make more sense to you?

Leave me behind (I don't even see any game post 2020 worth playing, let alone buying it) but don't take hostage of my whole library,
all of them could be played offline-singleplayer and not one single game in there have win10 as a requirement to run.
Make a small team, create a minimal-function-client that only do drm checks(no store, no steam forum, no friendlist, no ads, no multiplayer function or whatever), while we're at it...let us be the free $ alpha/beta tester, win-win, too logical?

Hardly. There are plenty of free, relatively easy to use alternatives to windows 10 that should run just fine on any hardware that can run windows 7/8/8.1 (aside from maybe some of the tablets). Hundreds of distros of Linux. FreeBSD can run a port of linux, but last I tried, not terribly well. There are indeed a handful of games on steam that do not require steam itself to run, so downloading those before the cut off date should enable you to continue to play them despite having a non-functional steam client: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam