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Look at the recent hardware surveys, the "consumer needs" for Windows 7 users are REALLY and EXTREMELY low.
Just stay on Windows 7 but when things break, don't expect VALVe/Steam to fix anything on their end.
freedom of speech only applies to government institutions and prosecution
They're not.
And yes - you have the freedom to pick what operating system & hardware you use. As part of that freedom, you accept the consequences of your choices.
Yes, your post is. Just like the dozens before it over the past few months.
As someone else noted, the customer is rarely right. That phrase is an overused meme that's lost it's original meaning.
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edit: as for the "why is this happening"?
- Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7 several years ago.
- as a consequence of this, various companies will (over time) stop keeping Win7 support in *their* software
- Steam uses the CEF middleware (Chromium Embedded Framework) to make their client work
- the people who make CEF are ending Win7 support. Therefore, every company that uses CEF, will lose Win7 support
You know, I always thought it was weird that Steam didn't support windows 3.1.
They're a business, not a Windows 7 support charity.
have you seen "year in review" tab? it has median games played this year. the average number is 4. It looks like 90% of steam users are F2P gamers or they're not interested in games.
I'm pretty sure old timers with win 7 buy more than 4 games per year. Instead of playng F2P games-services win 7 users actually pay for their single player games and probably pay more than average. so it is not "charity". considering millions of win 7 users worldwide their 30% from game price could easily cover development and maintenance of win 7 compatible steam client. it's only few developers.
Win7 users love to complain about Win10 and Win11 will be too much on their system. This means that they must have some ancient hardware at this point.
Someone who has that type of hardware isn't spending money on Steam because they are already struggling. They wouldn't even be able to play any modern game.
You mentioning that 30% of the computers world wide run Win7. That is not a worthwhile statistic.
It's Office PCs that are in this number. People are not using them to play PC games.
Steam has their own numbers on how many users of that use Steam uses Win7.
Win10 makes up for the majority of the users and Win11 is gaining in on that. Majority of the people who install Win11 will not be using the TPM bypass so they are on a 12Gen CPU or higher.
These people will be the ones spending money on Steam.
All you Windows 7 people might want to check them out as well. January 24 of next year it will only be working on Windows 10 and higher.
I'm passed feeling bad for people who aren't getting the picture here on Windows 7/8.1. Time to grow up on this folks or you will either leave yourself behind or get left behind.
You can blame Gabe or anyone else you want all day. It is on you to get your acts together ... not everyone else to keep reminding you of this.
The World doesn't revolve around Windows 7 or you. You can keep pretending otherwise until it is too late then you have no one else to blame but yourself (although we all know most of you will keep blaming everyone else but yourselves).
The lack of common sense on this is extremely disturbing.
no. If someone doesn't want to install win 10 it's not because of hardware or poverty. you're seems to be under impression that people don't install win 10 because they cannot afford it but in reality only fraction of win 7 users are struggling financially. majority just doesn't want to use win 10. win 10 has very similar resource usage to win 7 so by your logic everyone who still uses win 10 can't afford games. right?
30% Valve's cut on game sale. 30 cents from every dollar goes to Valve so it's not "charity".
No, A LOT of them specifically makes the claim that their PC can't handle windows 10 because it "too demanding".
Upgrading to Win10 was also free for about 7 years. Price should not have been an issue.
It only cost now because Microsoft stopped giving it away for free to previous Win7/Win8.1 owners.
There have been a lot of Win7 users being like "Well if you Valve are forcing Win7 to stop working, are you going to pay for our upgrade?".
Again, OFFICE PCS. They are not used for gaming. At all in any kind of way.
They are not part of the statistics now and they are not going to part of it later.
what are you talking about? what office PCs? I purchased win 7 pro key few years ago and that will be 2d win 7 key I purchased for my home PCs. people do use win 7 at home and it's shown in steam hardware survey. I doubt it's office PCs doing that statistic on lunch breaks.