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Steam forcing updates to Win 10/11 to play games - do you actually "own" games bought through Steam? (inv.tux.pizza)

submitted 2 years ago by CifrareVerba@lemmy.world to c/PCGaming@kbin.social

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[–] Pamasich@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not really Steam's choice, they are updating their embedded browser and Chromium dropped support for older versions of Windows, so automatically Steam is forced to drop support too. The alternative is to keep in exploits and bugs that have already been fixed.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

It's a lose-lose. Keep support up, someone using Steam could get hacked and have their life ruined with no one but Valve to blame. Get rid of support, suffer the wrath of 100s of people on these old OSs who can't just move to Linux for some reason. I know which one I would choose.