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wanman 2023 年 6 月 26 日下午 11:56

Theft by Steam

Taking away the ability to play the games you paid for, on the platform that they were released on, is basically theft of your property. Why would I ever purchase another game from Steam again? Disgusting.

最后由 wanman 编辑于; 2023 年 6 月 27 日上午 12:00

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wanman 2023 年 7 月 2 日下午 9:42

Steam will stop running on Windows 7 in 182 days.

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Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD} 2023 年 7 月 2 日下午 10:05

hmm let me see
i signed up for steam when games were only playable on win98

fast forward 17 yrs later and i can play same games from win98 on win10

nope no theft by steam, more fake news

#47

Guydodge 2023 年 7 月 3 日上午 3:02

good thing you werent born pre automotive era you'd still be riding in horse and buggy.

#48

PopinFRESH 2023 年 7 月 3 日上午 7:36

引用自 Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}：
hmm let me see
i signed up for steam when games were only playable on win98

fast forward 17 yrs later and i can play same games from win98 on win10

nope no theft by steam, more fake news

Factually incorrect. Steam wasn't out when games were only playable on Windows 98. Steam launched in a closed beta in 2002, and launched publicly at the end of 2003. Windows Xp launched in 2001 and had surpassed Windows 98 market share by the time Steam launched. When Steam launched, games were playable on Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows Xp, and somethings on Windows 2000.

Regardless, Steam dropped support for Windows 98SE, Windows ME back in July 2007. The same whining and same arguments in all of these threads crying about Windows 7 were made back then as well. They also discontinued support for Windows 2000 back in 2010. The same thing also occurred again back in 2019 when they dropped support for Windows Xp and Windows Vista.

Further, the same thing that the people crying about needing hardware upgrades also happened back in 2007 when Steam discontinued support for Windows 98SE/ME. Steam began requiring CPUs with SSE support at that same time and users who had older CPUs without SSE support had to upgrade their CPUs to supported hardware in order to load the Steam client. Back then the Steam hardware survey listed CPUs without SSE support at 1.03%

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Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD} 2023 年 7 月 3 日上午 11:46

引用自 PopinFRESH：
引用自 Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}：
hmm let me see
i signed up for steam when games were only playable on win98

fast forward 17 yrs later and i can play same games from win98 on win10

nope no theft by steam, more fake news

Factually incorrect. Steam wasn't out when games were only playable on Windows 98. Steam launched in a closed beta in 2002, and launched publicly at the end of 2003. Windows Xp launched in 2001 and had surpassed Windows 98 market share by the time Steam launched. When Steam launched, games were playable on Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows Xp, and somethings on Windows 2000.

Regardless, Steam dropped support for Windows 98SE, Windows ME back in July 2007. The same whining and same arguments in all of these threads crying about Windows 7 were made back then as well. They also discontinued support for Windows 2000 back in 2010. The same thing also occurred again back in 2019 when they dropped support for Windows Xp and Windows Vista.

Further, the same thing that the people crying about needing hardware upgrades also happened back in 2007 when Steam discontinued support for Windows 98SE/ME. Steam began requiring CPUs with SSE support at that same time and users who had older CPUs without SSE support had to upgrade their CPUs to supported hardware in order to load the Steam client. Back then the Steam hardware survey listed CPUs without SSE support at 1.03%

steam was out in 2003, and hl2 shipped with win98 support

#50

Fesharm 2023 年 7 月 3 日下午 12:28

引用自 wanman：
Steam will stop running on Windows 7 in 182 days.

My PC does not support Windows 10 or other...
How to continue playing Steam games without Windows 7?

#51

PopinFRESH 2023 年 7 月 3 日下午 12:54

引用自 Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}：
引用自 PopinFRESH：

Factually incorrect. Steam wasn't out when games were only playable on Windows 98. Steam launched in a closed beta in 2002, and launched publicly at the end of 2003. Windows Xp launched in 2001 and had surpassed Windows 98 market share by the time Steam launched. When Steam launched, games were playable on Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows Xp, and somethings on Windows 2000.

Regardless, Steam dropped support for Windows 98SE, Windows ME back in July 2007. The same whining and same arguments in all of these threads crying about Windows 7 were made back then as well. They also discontinued support for Windows 2000 back in 2010. The same thing also occurred again back in 2019 when they dropped support for Windows Xp and Windows Vista.

Further, the same thing that the people crying about needing hardware upgrades also happened back in 2007 when Steam discontinued support for Windows 98SE/ME. Steam began requiring CPUs with SSE support at that same time and users who had older CPUs without SSE support had to upgrade their CPUs to supported hardware in order to load the Steam client. Back then the Steam hardware survey listed CPUs without SSE support at 1.03%
steam was out in 2003, and hl2 shipped with win98 support

I'm well aware, hence the timeline laid out in the post you just quoted.

HL2 shipping with Windows 98 support isn't the same as "when games were only playable on win98" as you originally claimed. Again, when Steam launched Windows Xp had already surpassed Windows 98 market share and Games launching on Steam were already supporting Windows Xp.

#52

r.linder 2023 年 7 月 3 日下午 1:50

引用自 Fesharm：
引用自 wanman：
Steam will stop running on Windows 7 in 182 days.

My PC does not support Windows 10 or other...
How to continue playing Steam games without Windows 7?

Unless your system is from 1999, it will run Windows 10.

#53

GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™ 2023 年 7 月 3 日下午 3:12

引用自 wanman：
Steam will stop running on Windows 7 in 182 days.

Steam will stop running on Windows XP in 0 days.

#54

GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™ 2023 年 7 月 3 日下午 3:12

^^^
This is what my windows XP says. It still works! Offline mode ftw!

#55

Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD} 2023 年 7 月 3 日下午 5:27

引用自 PopinFRESH：
引用自 Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}：
steam was out in 2003, and hl2 shipped with win98 support

I'm well aware, hence the timeline laid out in the post you just quoted.

HL2 shipping with Windows 98 support isn't the same as "when games were only playable on win98" as you originally claimed. Again, when Steam launched Windows Xp had already surpassed Windows 98 market share and Games launching on Steam were already supporting Windows Xp.

agreed as in the same sense that win7 games will work on win10 just as win98 did

#56