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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.neowin.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1::Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You want Valve to develop a version of Steam that circumvents their own DRM to play local files? What would prevent people from using that to pirate things even more easily? I can imagine they'd have some trouble with publishers as well for doing that. There are already largely standardized cracks for steam and emulators for steam; just use that. Regardless, no solution will work for any game using DRM other than Steam, like Denuvo, so you'll have to rely on pirates for those regardless.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

You want Valve to develop a version of Steam that circumvents their own DRM to play local files? Yes, exactly. They owe people that.

What would prevent people from using that to pirate things even more easily? Dunno. Maybe make it not work on win 10+.