Can those on Windows XP still play their games?

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Tazor 11 月 12 日上午 3:20

Let's say you bought Half-Life 1 and 2, Counter Strike 1.6, the Prince of Persia Trilogy, Flatout 2, Deus Ex, Bioshock, Call of Duty 2 and 4, Hitman Blood Money, Dawn of War 1 collection. And that's your entire Steam library. Maybe some other games from that era I dunno, Gothic 2, Knights of the Old Republic, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Splinter Cell series.

You are on Windows XP with an ancient PC and couldn't care less about upgrading it or playing modern games. You're rocking a GeForce 9800 GT and it works great for all your games. Kind of overkill actually for HL 1 and CS 1.6.

What do you do? How do you access your library? Don't give me the "stay offline and never update" answer. Some of those titles are multiplayer. HL, CS 1.6, COD, DOW. How do you keep playing? Can you even play them the legal way?

When will support for Windows 10 end? I personally have no interest to ever upgrade again until I die. I hated the switch from 7 to 10. Only did it cos some newer games required a new version of DirectX and couldn't run on 7.

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Tlas Notrom 11 月 12 日上午 3:23

There are some unofficial and questionable patches for steam to work on older OS.

Thermal Lance 11 月 12 日上午 3:26

Can be done but it's a lot of work at this point.

What do you do? I'd just bite the bullet and upgrade given that these games work on Windows 11. Well, I'm not 100% sure for the splinter cell games but the rest yeah.

最后由 Thermal Lance 编辑于; 11 月 12 日上午 3:26

Iris Vandale 11 月 12 日上午 3:31

Maybe you can buy them on a different website.

Tazor 11 月 12 日上午 5:07

引用自 Iris Vandale：
Maybe you can buy them on a different website.

Why buy the same games again? Because Valve decided to indirectly take your right to play them?

Iris Vandale 11 月 12 日上午 5:07

引用自 Tazor：
引用自 Iris Vandale：
Maybe you can buy them on a different website.
Why buy the same games again? Because Valve decided to indirectly take your right to play them?

So you can play them.

DasKippa 11 月 12 日上午 5:10

GOG if xp is your kick, ditch valve

Tazor 11 月 12 日上午 5:11

引用自 Iris Vandale：
引用自 Tazor：
Why buy the same games again? Because Valve decided to indirectly take your right to play them?
So you can play them.

Pay for the same game twice. I would say a strong no on that idea.

Steam should have, in theory, been future proof. The reward we receive for accepting the price of DRM. As physical media can decay over time.

76561198785614232 11 月 12 日上午 5:12

引用自 Tazor：
引用自 Iris Vandale：
Maybe you can buy them on a different website.
Why buy the same games again? Because Valve decided to indirectly take your right to play them?

When you invest into a platform to the point this becomes an issue. One would be wise to read the fine prints.

Not even mentioning that we have the previous example of Windows 9x on top of that.

Every warning sign was in place for people. As much as I am going to sound like an ass saying this. Your refusal to take in that information at the time or your ignorance of it, ain't Valve's fault.

Tazor 11 月 12 日上午 5:17

引用自 Rusty Hammer：
引用自 Tazor：
Why buy the same games again? Because Valve decided to indirectly take your right to play them?
When you invest into a platform to the point this becomes an issue. One would be wise to read the fine prints.

Not even mentioning that we have the previous example of Windows 9x on top of that.

Every warning sign was in place for people. As much as I am going to sound like an ass saying this. Your refusal to take in that information at the time or your ignorance of it, ain't Valve's fault.

That is why I have pretty much stopped buying anything from Valve. I have read the fine print over the years. Not a stupid kid anymore. I have so little faith in them, I even keep offline hard copies of my Steam games.

HypersleepyNaputunia 11 月 12 日上午 7:02

The library access should always be made available with the last working client even if its a 10 year old version. Pretty ez just a download legacy xp client. They dont have to do any work just host it.

No ones expecting all the fancy features but fundamental access to the games you bought

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HypersleepyNaputunia 11 月 12 日上午 7:10

0 difficulty even firefox hosts ancient versions for download.only thing you need is login feature and download feature to work.

Everyone is happy that way instead of denying access to some pwople to what they bought

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