Follow on from Steam sales, should win7 be 100% supported?

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Do you think that steam should check that the games they are selling are compatible with win7?

With Windows 7 now being the OS of choice and with XP being unsupported, I think it is quite cheeky that Steam can sell games when they may never work on Windows 7.
 
I think put the information on the store page and let people decide for themselves to purchase or not.

There is normally a workaround to these things.

If they FORCED publishers to make older games to support new O'S's you likely just wouldnt see them for sale at all.

Also, are you saying that any game sold ANYWHERE, even Frogger should be Windows 7 compatible? Why just Steam? Surely the same should apply to normal retail too.
 
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Would you force a shop to only sell win7 compatible games?

Its down to the consumer to make sure it works on your own PC, it always has been and should remain that way!


Why should steam have there market limited.?
 
Gimpymoo said:
I think put the information on the store page and let people decide for themselves to purchase or not.

There is normally a workaround to these things.

If they FORCED publishers to make older games to support new O'S's you likely just wouldnt see them for sale at all.

Also, are you saying that any game sold ANYWHERE, even Frogger should be Windows 7 compatible? Why just Steam? Surely the same should apply to normal retail too.
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oh completely agree with you on that. Shouldn't just apply to steam, but used steam as the example as they are pushing lots of old retro games at the moment.
 
The beauty of the PC is that Older games on the whole can be made to run one way or another on O.S's they were not originally designed to run on.

I would rather that than the road of games being "discontinued" just because the game doesn't "support" the latest O.S.

So NO, I do not think Steam or ANYONE should be forced to sell games that only support a new operating system which will again be superceded by something else in a couple of years.

Impulse used to run a O.S check and if your O.S wasnt "supported", you couldnt download/install the game how much would that suck.

Caused chaos when Windows 7 was released.

If STEAM did ANYTHING like that, I would RAGE.
 
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Surely a simple pop-up would suffice?

Something like "Warning: Your current OS is not supported. Are you sure you wish to continue?"

I don't mind them selling games my OS doesn't support but it should be made very, very clear that it won't work, especially when they won't give you a refund.
 
maybe when you buy a game they should have a list to pick what os its for, that way they could have a warning saying that there are known problems
 
How about just a list of what IS supported, if it is not on the list, it may not work.

Oh wait, that has been done for YEARS.
 
LizardKing said:
Would you force a shop to only sell win7 compatible games?

Its down to the consumer to make sure it works on your own PC, it always has been and should remain that way!


Why should steam have there market limited.?
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I agree with that.

While i do agree Steam, where possible, should comment on whether or not its playable on a certain OS, a blanket statement including all realms of possibility when infact it can be made to work on that system somehow would only lose them money. In reality its upto you to make sure it works.
 
Gimpymoo said:
How about just a list of what IS supported, if it is not on the list, it may not work.

Oh wait, that has been done for YEARS.
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Exactly. Every game page has a spec sheet at the bottom, why not just read that. If Win 7 isn't supported then it's at the buyers own risk. Or even better google said game and see if there is a fix for it before buying.
 
Hmmm or you could just use google before purchase... something along the lines of -

www.goggle.co.uk enter Does (insert game name here) work in Windows 7 (add version here 64/32bit etc)...

that'll help as bet you someone has tried and ran into problems etc.... Or got the workaround so as you can at least make your own mind up..

folks just have to work out what does and doesn't work and take if from there. Not for Valve (steam) to tell you, although they do sometimes... Depends on the game..
 
It would be nice if games had more complete sys specs sometimes. I got Civ III for my netbook, only to find it a) took a load of messing around to work on Win 7 and even after that b) it just won't work properly on a screen with a v res lower than 768px, so was useless on my 1024x600 netbook.

It would have been nice if the specs had included '1024x768 minimum resolution screen'.
 
Thing is - sure theres a couple of games that didn't work too well out the box - but a little digging fixed them - tho the customer shouldn't really have to do that... but a LOT of the games that people moan about not working on Windows 7... work absolutely fine for me on Win 7 64bit... so I think in many cases its just user error.
 
Rroff said:
Thing is - sure theres a couple of games that didn't work too well out the box - but a little digging fixed them - tho the customer shouldn't really have to do that... but a LOT of the games that people moan about not working on Windows 7... work absolutely fine for me on Win 7 64bit... so I think in many cases its just user error.
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And possible conflicting issues with other software running on the pc.
 
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