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Thank you for sharing. We will take note.
Maybe time to upgrade your system?
I was sad when I couldn’t play D3 on Windows Xp anymore 
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That ship has sailed for a while now.
Basically, Blizzard does not support any OS that Microsoft no longer supports.
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I think the worst part of that, is that you could still upgrade to 10 on that system and be done with it.
I get it, I still have a windows 7 system sitting on the floor behind me, for compatibility reasons. (I run a computer shop)
I use it for situations where I need a windows 7 machine. I similarly have an XP system someplace for the same reason.
As for anything older, I have a Windows NT4 machine in storage. lol
Amazingly, it still works fine. LOL And will still run Diablo II. 
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Windows 7 club unite
raises hand
First of all Steam hasn’t taken away any games. You have by not upgrading your computer. Blizzard hasn’t not taken away any of your games either. You have done this to yourself.
The funny part of all of this is from windows 95 to windows 11 has basically the same foot print. Plus by the end of this year Firefox will no longer support windows 7. They are the only one that still supports 7.
So by the end of the year what Browser you going to use??? Plus you going to complain to them that they are banning you from that too.
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I miss DOS 3.1.
Those were the days…
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Steam and all my games continue to work on my windows ME installation so not sure what your issue is?
Everyone knows ME is the finest OS ever created
It’s like D2 while windows 11 is like D4
What really sucks about Steam requiring Win 10+ is the fact that it’s a Chrome requirement, nothing else. They will update the Chrome backend and it requires Win 10+.
I’m not sure it works, but I think you could select Steam’s option to go offline on December and keep it working like that after the deadline.
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Let’s take Diablo 3 as an example. Why should I upgrade my computer to play it, if it works right now as is? No one should be forced to upgrade to play games they already own and ARE working.
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Windows 7 was released in October of 2009.
Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended January of 2015.
The official End of Life for Windows 7 was January of 2020.
Extended support (paid) for Windows 7 ended January of 2023.
Those who continue to run Windows 7 for their daily use systems are an extremely small minority. You can’t expect software companies to continue supporting an operating system that is no longer supported, just because you continue using it.
Yeah, Windows 7 is a fantastic operating system for its time… So is Windows XP. But if you don’t like losing the ability to play games through a game client/service which continues to receive updates, it’s time for you to move on.
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That’s the thing, though. It’s not the game client that’s getting updates, it’s the game launcher. Coming back to Diablo 3’s example, it’s like not being able to play the current version, that actually works on Windows 7, because the Battle.net launcher got an update.
Edit:
If you check Product Lifecycle FAQ - Extended Security Updates | Microsoft Learn, you’ll see that Windows Embedded POSReady 7 will get updated until October 8th, 2024. Those updates are actually regular Windows 7 updates that can be installed on all versions of Windows 7, if you do a few tweaks.
Still, you can’t expect software developers to continue supporting operating systems that 1: are no longer supported and 2: barely anyone uses.
The line has to be drawn somewhere.
Tweaks, tricks and hacks to get around end of support is irrelevant in this case… Software developers are going with the official end of life dates.
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I’m not expecting them to support anything, but whatever runs at the present (many games on Steam don’t have updates for years) should continue running.
By your logic I should need the latest Windows to run Diablo 2 1.14.
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It is at the software developers discretion whether or not to continue supporting unsupported operating systems.
Good try on assuming my logic though.
Nice strawman argument there.
The software developers in this case are the the games’ developers, which did NOT remove support for any operating system.
Another concrete example for you, Torchlight 2. It runs on Windows 7 and won’t ever get any update, but I won’t be able to launch it via Steam in January.
Now, I’m not asking Steam to allow me to keep updating it and still run it on Windows 7, I just want to keep using (even if only offline) the last working version to keep playing games that I know still work on Windows 7.
If that’s still “the developers discretion” for you, then there’s nothing to discuss.
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Since you’re obviously looking for an argument, welcome to the list.
Cya.
What are you going to do after Jan 2024 when there is no browser that supports Win 7. Yes you might still be able use it Maybe. But Firefox the last one will stop updates then for Win 7.
What is the reason you don’t want to upgrade to Win 10 ???
There really no difference between 7 & 10 other then the live updates on 10. I have been using Windows from 3.0. Plus I’m a retired Microsoft Partner too.
Just keep using the browser I currently use.
There are plenty of differences, otherwise 10 wouldn’t exist and everything would still be compatible with 7.