shamino wrote:
I'll give Valve a partial pass if I see a best effort on their part to give XP clients the most usable experience possible on the 12/2018 client. But if they go on a self-righteous "Windows XP must be killed" warpath then my attitude toward them will sour considerably.
You're deluded if you think vendors like Valve have any interest in "Killing" Windows XP, as if they even care.
I feel like there's a bit a hubris in the attitude that this is something Valve is doing "TO YOU".
Steam is relatively complex tool. It depends on stacks of libraries and middleware maintained by third parties. One day, those maintainers will stop supporting Windows XP for whatever reason, and when they do, Valve's hand is forced.
They can either spend time, money, and resources catering to 0.11% of surveyed systems, or they can take advantage of the functionality improvements and bug/security/performance fixes in new versions of their libraries.
The fact that this means you can potentially no longer play games you paid money for is a real issue. I 100% agree.
But let's call a spade a spade. Valve is a company, its reason for existing is to make money. It doesn't have emotions or a conscience, it is literally incapable of having ulterior motives.
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