WTF is this bs? "In order to continue running Steam and any games or other products purchased through Steam, users will need to update to a more recent version of Windows."

[CEO OF XXX]

This is literally STEALING!!! WTF how the hell is this acceptable?

You can't just all of a sudden block me from playing games I have purchased because I am not using Bill Gates is latest telemetry spyware just because the average sheeple consoomers are doing it.

2% of steam users USE windows 7 that's over MILLION you blocking MILLIONS of people from PLAYING THEIR GAMES??? BS AND NONSENSE!!!!!

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe
Guess what you are pushing millions of users to do, thanks Gabe!

[Mofuji]

You don't own the game, you just have a license. And they can revoke that license at any time they feel like it.

Welcome to the grand digital future that people gladly jumped for because they couldn't be bothered to insert a disc into a drive.

[Chompman]

No one is blocking you from using your game.

You simply need to upgrade your OS to a working version and this is no different when XP and other OS's were phased out much like when old hardware doesn't work with the same game when they do a graphical overhaul as many games have done.

This is your decision and you agreed to it when you made your steam account.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

If you happen to still have your Win7 key you can go upgrade to Win10 free thanks to Microsoft.
But the whole reason this issue exists is 1. Valve chose to embed Google Chrome and 2. the embedded version of Google Chrome is "unsupported" on anything older than Win10.(yet works fine on all linux and mac). Please direct your concern, anger, and confusion to the ones responsible. I'm certain it will change their mind.

[CEO OF XXX]

Originally posted by Chompman:

No one is blocking you from using your game.

You simply need to upgrade your OS to a working version and this is no different when XP and other OS's were phased out much like when old hardware doesn't work with the same game when they do a graphical overhaul as many games have done.

This is your decision and you agreed to it when you made your steam account.

"No one is building giant walls around your house to prevent you from getting out.

You simply need to deal with it or get the government brain chip, vaccine, and social credit score implant or else you will not be given a changing password every day to open the locked door.

This is your decision and you agreed to it when you decided to live here."

[CEO OF XXX]

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

If you happen to still have your Win7 key you can go upgrade to Win10 free thanks to Microsoft.
But the whole reason this issue exists is 1. Valve chose to embed Google Chrome and 2. the embedded version of Google Chrome is "unsupported" on anything older than Win10.(yet works fine on all linux and mac). Please direct your concern, anger, and confusion to the ones responsible. I'm certain it will change their mind.

I direct my anger towards Valve because there is NOTHING stopping them from making a setting to disable most of the chromium features of Steam or allow for users to use an older more simple version of Steam without. They have BILLIONS of dollars if they wanted to they could easily implement a fix.

And it's their fault to begin with for making a pact with Satan (Google).

[minsect]

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

the embedded version of Google Chrome is "unsupported" on anything older than Win10.

Not true.
Steam uses Chromium v85, from 2020.09.
Windows 7 can use Chromium up to v109, from 2023.01.

[Prof.Jackie]

bad bait is bad

[DarkCrystalMethod]

To be clear I'm not stating that it won't run or will break its just "unsupported" which means nobody to cry to. However if Valve starts doing hard OS detection and lockout then they're just making enemies when they don't need to.

[Chompman]

Originally posted by Donald Trump:

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

If you happen to still have your Win7 key you can go upgrade to Win10 free thanks to Microsoft.
But the whole reason this issue exists is 1. Valve chose to embed Google Chrome and 2. the embedded version of Google Chrome is "unsupported" on anything older than Win10.(yet works fine on all linux and mac). Please direct your concern, anger, and confusion to the ones responsible. I'm certain it will change their mind.

I direct my anger towards Valve because there is NOTHING stopping them from making a setting to disable most of the chromium features of Steam or allow for users to use an older more simple version of Steam without. They have BILLIONS of dollars if they wanted to they could easily implement a fix.

And it's their fault to begin with for making a pact with Satan (Google).

There is a valid business decision when such a small amount of people is using a outdated piece of software and it's a massive security risk allowing people using it on their platform.

This is no different when other OS's were no longer supported and a part of using computers of any sort really.

[biesoid]

Originally posted by Donald Trump:

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe

that's funny, I never buy new games, because they're priced like I was living in Germany where salaries are at least twice as high.

And these days it's normal to release unfinished games for 70 euro, because "inflation".

[CEO OF XXX]

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

To be clear I'm not stating that it won't run or will break its just "unsupported" which means nobody to cry to. However if Valve starts doing hard OS detection and lockout then they're just making enemies when they don't need to.

I don't care if it's "unsupported" but what I do care is the way Valve phrased it seems like they are LOCKING people from using Steam if they do not upgrade even though nothing would be broken!

[CEO OF XXX]

Originally posted by Chompman:

Originally posted by Donald Trump:

I direct my anger towards Valve because there is NOTHING stopping them from making a setting to disable most of the chromium features of Steam or allow for users to use an older more simple version of Steam without. They have BILLIONS of dollars if they wanted to they could easily implement a fix.

And it's their fault to begin with for making a pact with Satan (Google).

There is a valid business decision when such a small amount of people is using a outdated piece of software and it's a massive security risk allowing people using it on their platform.

This is no different when other OS's were no longer supported and a part of using computers of any sort really.

I love when people that pretend they are geniuses say bring up "security risks" for Windows 7!

NAME OVER 10 that don't effect Windows 10+ and specifically Windows 7 is only vulnerable to them. Now come on go and google as hard as you can and find the most obscure sources you can find to try to back up your claim of Windows 7 being "insecure".

My Windows 7 PC is more secure than your Windows 10/11 pc and I have no anti-virus and been browsing the internet for over a decade, bub.

[CEO OF XXX]

Originally posted by biesoid:

Originally posted by Donald Trump:

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe

that's funny, I never buy new games, because they're priced like I was living in Germany where salaries are at least twice as high.

And these days it's normal to release unfinished games for 70 euro, because "inflation".

Yep, I don't buy new games either they are all lazy, bad writing, bad gameplay, unoptimized, overpriced, or have soul to them like older games and sometimes all of the above.

The only thing I care about and it is my RIGHT is to be able to access and play the games or "game licenses" I have paid for and they can not disable me from doing so for an arbitrary reason such as not upgrading to the latest hip-hop spyware OS.

[Chompman]

Originally posted by Donald Trump:

Originally posted by Chompman:

There is a valid business decision when such a small amount of people is using a outdated piece of software and it's a massive security risk allowing people using it on their platform.

This is no different when other OS's were no longer supported and a part of using computers of any sort really.

I love when people that pretend they are geniuses say bring up "security risks" for Windows 7!

NAME OVER 10 that don't effect Windows 10+ and specifically Windows 7 is only vulnerable to them. Now come on go and google as hard as you can and find the most obscure sources you can find to try to back up your claim of Windows 7 being "insecure".

My Windows 7 PC is more secure than your Windows 10/11 pc and I have no anti-virus and been browsing the internet for over a decade, bub.

The part of it being insecure is it no longer receives any security updates and that's a major issue here.

[AtheistChris]

more than just 2% did use Windows XP at the time Windows XP support was removed, and most just switched to Windows 7 so why don´t you just switch to windows 10?


while i think steam should not remove the support just don´t give any further updates and say use on own risk
and all games who won´t work anymore can easily made DRM Free