comsert: Put straight: You deceive a customer on purpose by lying the game's minimum is not Windows 7. While saying here the minimum is 7. Is it OK? No.
The minimum requirements are what we can confidently say it will work on and will be supported by us if you have any issues. As far as I'm aware, that's how the minimum requirements are defined for most games. If you can technically get the program to run at 3 fps in 720p at lowest settings on an entry-level GPU from 10 years ago, does that mean that should be listed as the minimum? Far more people would be unhappy if you used that strategy when determining minimums, and they see them and think their PC is good enough, and then find that it's effectively unusable. Obviously minimum requirements must be based on what will offer a reasonably usable experience and will be officially supported. So no, we didn't deceive anyone, we wrote the requirements using a typical industry method.
comsert: Many people use 7, you lose sales due to that, you know
I would rather we have fewer sales than advertise compatibility for system configurations that we can't support.
comsert: And for what? For a theoretical "future problem" that does not exist yet, like being scared of a monster under the bed.
On the contrary, such problems already do exist; there are a few issues with SE that have been fixed by driver updates in the time since support for Win 7 was dropped by GPU vendors. This is what prompted us to update the requirements to Windows 10 in the first place. This is not hypothetical, this is already a real issue that is only going to get worse with time.
GOG.com: a 1:1 scale
science-based Universe simulator, featuring billions upon billions of galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets, all shown at their full real-world scale.
cmclout: That's what is says on the store page, too, so it's the developers, not GOG, that said that. The question to be asked is this -- why would anyone write such an obvious lie, especially one so easy to disprove?
It's not a good sign when the first words you say about your game are a lie (false advertising).
Dude what? Every part of that is true, unless you're using a narrow definition of "simulator".
harbingerdawn: The program does have those capabilities, but custom camera path recording and use in a commercial context requires purchasing SpaceEngine and the SpaceEngine Pro add-on package (the latter contains the camera path tool and commercial license) on Steam.
cmclout: That's one way to make it crystal clear that you view GOG users as second-rate.
How so? The only reason that Pro isn't available via GOG is due to technical limitations. If/when that changes, of course we will offer it.