Well W7 is practically 15 years old, and already stopped receiving updates itself. It's not really up to Steam to keep it up and running ~~even~~ especially if Microsoft no longer bothers to update the OS, it would just get more and more problematic, and they also had to let it go at some point.

I don't think anyone cares about W8 though, even Microsoft itself barely seemed to put effort in making it work.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I actually disagree here, as I have games that I purchased that only work in win98/winXP/7 I think they should make one “last” version that supports those old systems to facilitate the old games on these old versions. No new features or anything just what’s needed to provide access to these old games

[–] eyeon 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't the last version already that..well..last version?

If anything they could just leverage their work with proton that allows steam to play windows games on Linux to provide similar compatibility shims for old windows on modern windows

[–] kn33 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If I remember right, the first Tomb Raider (at least before the remaster) was shipped with DOSBox to be about to run.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you own track mania nations forever on steam, you will be unable to run it on a modern OS. You can install mods to make it work but the game is still for sale and if you're unaware the mod exists, you'll never be able to play it again

[–] scutiger 5 points 2 weeks ago

It runs fine on Linux.

It's true that most people wouldn't know, and probably wouldn't look that far into things before buying a game. Fortunately Steam's refund policy is pretty good for this kind of situation.

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