Epic Games Store Dropping Windows 7 and Windows 10 32bit Support in June

[Boblin the Goblin]

EGS announced that they will be dropping support for Windows 7 and Windows 10 32bit this June.

Since it was such a huge deal that Valve announced 8 months before dropping support for Windows 7, I feel people should know that they are not the only ones. The difference is Valve will continue to support Windows 10 32bit while Epic will not.

https://winaero.com/epic-games-store-drops-support-for-windows-7-8-starting-in-june-2024/

[Brian9824]

I really don't get why they would drop Win 10 32 bit support, that bit makes absolutely no sense at all.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by brian9824:

I really don't get why they would drop Win 10 32 bit support, that bit makes absolutely no sense at all.

Makes even less since with EGS being created as a direct competitor to Steam. Why go even further with dropping support when your competition doesn't.

[Stalker2010]

Originally posted by SlowMango:

Originally posted by brian9824:

I really don't get why they would drop Win 10 32 bit support, that bit makes absolutely no sense at all.

Makes even less since with EGS being created as a direct competitor to Steam. Why go even further with dropping support when your competition doesn't.

They should drop their sluggish garbage app at once instead.

[Abigail From Sneaky Squid Dept.]

Originally posted by brian9824:

I really don't get why they would drop Win 10 32 bit support, that bit makes absolutely no sense at all.

I'm more shocked they even made a 32 bit version of windows 10.

[Mad Scientist]

I wonder what excuse the long-term pro-epic-anti-steam people will come up with, afterall, "epic wouldn't do that" - well, they are.

[xBCxRangers]

I thought we were told they already did. Guess not. Anyhow, i never used Epic, but if it's anything like this, that may take years to sort.

But interesting, winds of Win 10 purges, starting now lol. I'm gonna break out the popcorn when that happens here.

[nullable]

Originally posted by brian9824:

I really don't get why they would drop Win 10 32 bit support, that bit makes absolutely no sense at all.

They may want their client, or parts of it, to be 64bit. And it's not like there's a lot of other supported Windows versions with 32bit support. There may not be a lot of need/pressure to maintain Win10 32bit support for the entire life of Win10. What's the user base size of Win10 32bit? Smaller than Windows 7 user base was at the end? Why does it make sense to maintain support and hold off on updates/upgrades and add testing overheard to support 32bit for a fraction of percent of low value users?

Not understanding the reasoning offhand doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by brian9824:

I really don't get why they would drop Win 10 32 bit support, that bit makes absolutely no sense at all.

Extremely low market share. Even less than Windows 7 64-bit. Microsoft is only supporting updating it to fulfill their OS support obligations.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by SlowMango:

Since it was such a huge deal that Valve announced 8 months before dropping support for Windows 7, I feel people should know that they are not the only ones. The difference is Valve will continue to support Windows 10 32bit while Epic will not.

And giving two or three months notice at that vs eight months from Valve.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I thought we were told they already did. Guess not. Anyhow, i never used Epic, but if it's anything like this, that may take years to sort.

But interesting, winds of Win 10 purges, starting now lol. I'm gonna break out the popcorn when that happens here.

Keep in mind that it says 32-bit. The majority of people on Windows 10 are using the 64-bit version.

This is stated in the thread title.

And you were never told that they dropped support, you were told that they were going to drop support.

[nullable]

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I thought we were told they already did. Guess not. Anyhow, i never used Epic, but if it's anything like this, that may take years to sort.

But interesting, winds of Win 10 purges, starting now lol. I'm gonna break out the popcorn when that happens here.

Prepare to be disappointed because you don't understand the issue.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I thought we were told they already did. Guess not. Anyhow, i never used Epic, but if it's anything like this, that may take years to sort.

But interesting, winds of Win 10 purges, starting now lol. I'm gonna break out the popcorn when that happens here.

Keep in mind that it says 32-bit. The majority of people on Windows 10 are using The 64-bit version.

This is stated in the thread title.

And you were never told that they dropped support, you were told that they were going to drop support.

Or told that they dropped support for Fortnite. But lots of people don't bother reading anything that doesn't affirm their already preestablished views

[xBCxRangers]

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I thought we were told they already did. Guess not. Anyhow, i never used Epic, but if it's anything like this, that may take years to sort.

But interesting, winds of Win 10 purges, starting now lol. I'm gonna break out the popcorn when that happens here.

Keep in mind that it says 32-bit. The majority of people on Windows 10 are using the 64-bit version.

This is stated in the thread title.

And you were never told that they dropped support, you were told that they were going to drop support.

Yeah, but it's still Win 10, and they're already getting the ball rolling.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Keep in mind that it says 32-bit. The majority of people on Windows 10 are using The 64-bit version.

This is stated in the thread title.

And you were never told that they dropped support, you were told that they were going to drop support.

Or told that they dropped support for Fortnite. But lots of people don't bother reading anything that doesn't affirm their already preestablished views

Yep, the fortnite headline was posted months ago. And guess what? People scoffed at it as if it would never happen lol. Just like Windows 7 and Steam

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Keep in mind that it says 32-bit. The majority of people on Windows 10 are using the 64-bit version.

This is stated in the thread title.

And you were never told that they dropped support, you were told that they were going to drop support.

Yeah, but it's still Win 10, and they're already getting the ball rolling.

Still nothing. The majority of Windows 10 users are not going to be affected. That's the point, the key point, mind you, that you're choosing to ignore.

Furthermore, even if they do kill support for 64-bit Windows 10, sensible people will just upgrade to Windows 11.

This is something that you are going to have to learn to understand, whether you like it or not. Upgrading is part of this hobby.

Millions of people do it every day and they don't think twice about it.