Rockstar Games have ended support for Windows 7 and 8 across their titles. The company announced this decision back in October 2023 but has come into effect as of Tuesday 30th January.
Running an unsupported OS on the public internet is like refusing the covid vaccine and going to work with a fever. Would you listen to someone who does that? I wouldn’t, because any justification they come up with is going to be pants on head stupid.
It could still, same as it does right now. The downsides of running that OS do not change this fact.
Until just recently, it was obviously feasible to use Windows 7 for this modern game. Unlike MS-DOS. Unlike your insulting dismissal, pretending ‘waah I want it’ is anyone’s argument here. Because apparently you can’t deal with the difference between ‘the reasons aren’t good enough’ and ‘there are no reasons whatsoever,’ so you just call people babies.
between ‘the reasons aren’t good enough’ and ‘there are no reasons whatsoever,’
You can move off of 7 easily, for free, you wouldn’t be giving up any functionality you can’t get elsewhere, in fact you’d be gaining some, and your machine is a lot less likely to get compromised and used to send me spam.
There are no reasons whatsoever. Well, other than “I WANT IT I WANT IT”. You have a lot of nerve expecting me to respect that, and even more nerve expecting a game company to spend time and money accommodating it. You are a baby. Maybe it sounds condescending, maybe it is, but it’s also true.
Running an unsupported OS on the public internet is like refusing the covid vaccine and going to work with a fever. Would you listen to someone who does that? I wouldn’t, because any justification they come up with is going to be pants on head stupid.
And that means this game didn’t work last week.
Game works fine if you’re on an OS from the last decade
Yes.
It did.
It could still, same as it does right now. The downsides of running that OS do not change this fact.
Until just recently, it was obviously feasible to use Windows 7 for this modern game. Unlike MS-DOS. Unlike your insulting dismissal, pretending ‘waah I want it’ is anyone’s argument here. Because apparently you can’t deal with the difference between ‘the reasons aren’t good enough’ and ‘there are no reasons whatsoever,’ so you just call people babies.
You can move off of 7 easily, for free, you wouldn’t be giving up any functionality you can’t get elsewhere, in fact you’d be gaining some, and your machine is a lot less likely to get compromised and used to send me spam.
There are no reasons whatsoever. Well, other than “I WANT IT I WANT IT”. You have a lot of nerve expecting me to respect that, and even more nerve expecting a game company to spend time and money accommodating it. You are a baby. Maybe it sounds condescending, maybe it is, but it’s also true.