8/18/2023 0 Comments Win10 end of lifeI deeply regret ever purchasing my XP games on Steam for the reason that they cut off access to my older machines and don't supply offline installers. That said, I have a legacy machine for every era dating back to MS-DOS days and since games run best on their native OS that's where I like to place them. Just as you can't go out and buy a new Windows XP machine. Even though the XBOX 360 is no longer in production or sold. The difference is that the storefront is still available on the 360 itself. As a parallel, imagine if developers/publishers sold a digital release of a 360 Game on XBOX One/Series X that was buggy and didn't run properly. If GOG wants to compete and attract more people to their platform, this is the one thing Valve does that they need to copy. Valve would never put a new Half-Life game on another PC storefront. This is the nice guys finish last of videogames. You gotta have teeth too, and the GOG guys are so pro-consumer that they shoot themselves in the foot by putting The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk on Steam, giving Steam a 30% cut for no good reason and missing out on the opportunity to bring more people to their platform. I like GOG's philosophy better as well, but unfortunately being pro-consumer is not enough to compete against a giant like Steam. The reason they don't is because of Steam's lack of standards and the existence of fans who not only fix the games themselves but also attack fellow gamers who complain about the issue with gems like "Stop being lazy and fix it yourself.", the nonsensical and extremely outdated "It's part of PC gaming" and the classic "Go back to consoles." I believe that if the developer is still selling the game on Steam when the new OS becomes standard, it is their responsibility to fix it. Originally posted by Lord of the Infinite Clouds:It is neither Valve nor the original game developer's responsibility to make a game developed for (or more accurately in many cases - ported to) Windows 7 run on Windows 11, Windows 12, etc. not at all) is a sneak peak into the future should the platform ever shut down. Valve's handling of allowing you to access your game library on legacy machines they were developed for (i.e. I've re-bought many games like the Dishonored series (which I 'owned' on Steam) and I know that should those games have glitches or issues on a Windows 11, "Windows 2030" or any other future OS that may eventually be the only platform Steam supports, I can still take those offline installers and load them on to a "legacy" Windows 7 or Windows 10 machine. If you're the type of person who likes to keep legacy hardware (an SNES, PS1, original XBOX etc) and have any intention of doing so with your PCs I can't stress enough to buy your digital games on GOG instead. It is neither Valve nor the original game developer's responsibility to make a game developed for (or more accurately in many cases - ported to) Windows 7 run on Windows 11, Windows 12, etc. Well Microsoft has announced that they will be dropping support for Windows 10 in 2025 and Windows 11 hasn't even been released yet.Īgain, inevitably, Steam will continue dropping support for these EOL OS' and without offline installers for your games (a la GOG) you can continue to have fun getting titles in your steam library running on an OS they were not developed for. Funny thing people actually citing (and believing) as a defense that Windows 10 would be the 'last version of windows.
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