Are you running an OS that hasn’t received a security update in a year (if you purchase the ESU packages)???
Dude, at least move on to Windows 10 or something, that’s just you taking bad decisions at this point.
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btaf45@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It is ridiculous that Steam won’t let you play your games you payed for outside of steam. Games that you’ve played for years on Windows 7 suddenly no longer play. Steam is like a DRM system that suddenly stops working and makes all the stuff you bought worthless.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
btaf45@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I like Windows 7 precisely because I still have complete control over my computer. Microsoft cannot brick my computer on a whim like they have the power to with later versions of windows.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
“brick my computer on a whim”
Paranoid much?
It’s funny that you fear Microsoft but not all the people that can exploit all the flaws that are now left open in your computer because you haven’t received a single security update in 357 days.
btaf45@lemmy.world 8 months ago
…microsoft.com/…/15b6e4a5-9710-4b7b-a83e-5368bce1…
[Microsoft update system has destroyed my computer completely]
Hyrulian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I feel like this group of people are the kind that would already be on Linux though. If you’re that anti Microsoft why be on any version of Windows when such a great suitable replacement that also still works on these older systems exists?
btaf45@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I feel like this group of people are the kind that would already be on Linux though.
I have plenty of Linux machines and used Unix since before Linux existed. But when I want to play WINDOWS games and dont want to deal with wine hassles I need a windows box.
kzhe@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Linux?
Disposable_User@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re right with what you said except for Steam is not like DRM. Steam is DRM!
People will defend Valve with tooth and nails, but like every other digital system, one day it will fuck with their users (my guess is when Gabe Newell retires).
I can barely wait for that day, to see thousands of posts of users crying, because they never purchased anything, only rented! ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗthehatfox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Plenty of people hated Steam when it first came out, it was a controversial thing when games started to require it.
Steam has only become as popular as it is because Valve responded to much of that criticism, and improved it enough to become “acceptable” DRM in the minds of most gamers. People defend it because it came to work (mostly) seamlessly and offer additional beneficial features. Unlike many other far jankier platforms/launchers which have been developed with minimum effort as more transparent cash grabs.
A DRM free world be be ideal, but we rarely get an ideal world, so people settle for the least worst instead.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Steam is literally DRM. But nobody wants to acknowledge that.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a store and content downloader, buy games that don’t implement steamworks and you can copy the install folder and keep playing on windows 7 just fine.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m sorry I hurt your feelings.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Steam isn’t DRM, it’s a game storefront/downloader that offers developers the option of DRM when they publish their game.
Plenty of games have zero DRM, and plenty of games do. I wish they’d make it clearer which do and which don’t, but that’s a separate issue.
rush@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Note that dropping support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 came as part of a butterfly effect of the Chromium project - which Steam depends on - dropping support.
HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Yeah I don’t blame valve for Microsoft dropping security updates and neglecting the last good version of windows. I’ve switched to Linux where this will never happen.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s a Chromium issue, not a Windows issue.
btaf45@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a DRM issue. Not a Chromium issue, or a Window’s issue. What happens when Steam goes out of business after a corporate takeover and NOBODY WILL EVER BE ABLE TO PLAY ANY OF THEIR STEAM GAMES AGAIN.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You’re talking about a different subject.
The reason why Steam is dropping support for W7/8 is a Chromium issue.
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
It is ridiculous that Steam won’t let you play your games you payed for outside of steam
Very easy to run your previously purchased steam games without Steam. Search “Steam emulator”, follow the GitHub or Codeberg link, and problem solved…
Won’t help with games that use their own custom DRM though.
btaf45@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thanks! I will try.
LiveLGNProsper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What if a security exploit happens to affect that older version of Steam that’s no longer updated and somebody’s able to hack your account change your password change your email now they have a brand new entire steam library that you no longer have anymore. Would you rather that? This is more of them covering themselves legally, so if that were to happen, they cannot be sued
btaf45@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I would rather Steam let me play all my games I legally purchased on Windows 7 outside of steam. If Steam is not going to work on Windows 7 than stay the hell out of the way and let me play the games I bought and have installed on my computer.
kescusay@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This isn’t Steam’s fault. The OS is dead because Microsoft killed it (as part of their ongoing planned-obsolescence operating system program). There is no conceivable way Steam can maintain security for anyone’s account on an OS that hasn’t received security updates for three years.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Jesus Christ 🤦♂️
The OS is over 10 years old. No one in Linux land gets that level of support either.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Nothing unusual about cutting the cord at some point when major updates introduce big enough differences that it becomes a pain to make sure things start compatible.
I swear some people around here must be mad that Microsoft doesn’t release Windows 98 updates anymore…
btaf45@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Then they need to drop the DRM nonsense and let people use their desktop applications/games that they purchased.
It IS Steam’s fault that Steam forces people to use a DRM system which they then shut down. Who else’s fault would it be?
It’s not Google’s fault that Steam forces people to use a DRM system which they then shut down.
It’s not Microsoft’s fault that Steam forces people to use a DRM system which they then shut down.
It’s not Windows 7/8 user’s fault that Steam forces people to use a DRM system which they then shut down.
I can play GOG games without using GOG. The least that Steam can do is created a lightweight app that let’s users play the games that they have already installed on their computer. Forget about “security” and “accounts”. Just don’t get in the way of users running their own games on their own computers.