First post, by Nutricula87
So I was thinking of putting together a windows XP gaming rig just for the hell of it. One of the first relevant games that came to mind was Half Life 2 (2004). However, with the news of Steam dropping support of Windows XP in January 2019, I imagine this would render the game completely unplayable on Windows XP due to Steam being needed to activate the disc copy of the game. I totally understand dropping support for such an old operating system. But find it kind of sad that the game probably won't be playable on it's originally intended operating system and in its original edition.
Does anyone know if this is definitely the case and no way around it to play on XP? I was thinking of buying a new copy of half life 2 on disc (for nostalgia), but I guess it simply wouldn't work after January.