Save Win 98 or We sue Valve

[RealEgg]

I have been running windows 98 like many for 10+ years and have a massive catalog of games that listed support for windows 98 at the time of purchase. If you as a platform choose to Brick my steam install and prevent me from ever playing my games again you can expect another class action lawsuit demanding entire account based refunds. but hey maybe that will be cheaper than maintaining a legacy version of your product you've build a monopoly out of.

PSA: Anyone who thinks Windows 98 is actually dead just go head on over to the Win-raid forums before claiming my argument is invalid. Plenty of people been doing gods work maintaining the OS for modern hardware and plenty of die hard users.

EDIT: Valve Also Still advertises games that put Windows 98 in the specs to run the game, If you want to benefit from the marketing of Windows 98 in 2023 u cannot also discontinue it the same year. That's the same reason why warranties exist otherwise company's would make their products less durable to die well within a year. So I don't care what the TOS says no one can be realistically expected to read it all anyways and a court could totally side against valve on this.

[Lord Flashheart]

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Windows 98 peasant. The OP should bite the bullet and upgrade XP.

Nothing wrong with Windows 98. All those people whining about security issues do not know what they are talking about, the biggest weakness in any system is the user.

Hilarious.
It seems it all went over your head.
What serious use does windows 98 have?
Enlighten us with your IT security wisdom.
I think in some industries, XP is still being used, which is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

I use my fancy pants 64 bit operating systems - windows 10/11, linux, Android.........with updates!

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

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Nothing wrong with Windows 98. All those people whining about security issues do not know what they are talking about, the biggest weakness in any system is the user.

Hilarious.
It seems it all went over your head.
What serious use does windows 98 have?
Enlighten us with your IT security wisdom.
I think in some industries, XP is still being used, which is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

I use my fancy pants 64 bit operating systems - windows 10/11, linux, Android.........with updates!

win98 for games like mm2

[Sigma957]

I had to reinstall STEAM after they dropped support for Spry Mosaic...

some ask what use is there for Windows 98. Well none unless it's 98SE. Then you can run Wing Commander Secret Ops on it...and Winamp.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

I stand with Save Windows 98!

[76561199554036832]

Almost as bad as the original post.

[Tonepoet]

I don't think threatening to sue Valve is going to do much when their E.U.L.A. probably had them covered for this and it's pretty industry standard to drop support for older systems. This really needs to be pushed as a feature request rather than a demand. Valve likes its customer base, I think? Just having some modified version of the old client available for download that acts as a game launcher only would likely suffice.

Though for Windows 98 games, would there even be any D.R.M. that prevents you from installing the game on a modern system and sideloading it onto your old one?

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Windows 98 peasant. The OP should bite the bullet and upgrade XP.

First, Steam only officially supports Windows 10 now and second, upgrading probably isn't even the point 'cause who uses Windows 98 as their daily driver O.S. anymore? I think most people who have such old systems are using them for periodically correct play.

[lsdninja]

Someone skipped the first reply in the thread ;)

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.