I could do with some more games today I thought and got my money ready and I noticed more and more games are windows 10?
Games from years back that should easily be run on windows 7 if not the xp are now hitting windows 10 requirement?

GoG are you trying to remove a part of your market on purpose?

Reason I came to GoG was Steams DRM and eventual insistence on pushing the windows 10.
Now GoG is making games on the store screen say Windows 10 required :(

If I want to boost my gaming system up I might as well just purchase on Steam.

Come on GoG how much is microsoft paying you to make everybody part of their manufactured rat race of constant buying upgraded machines because it wants more money?

Is it more than the older machined customers were paying you?

A lot of the "Requires W10" are fake requirements. Basically all the developer does is write in what OS they tested it on, not what it actually runs on, and all GOG do is copy-paste that. See this thread for a list of "Requires W10" titles that actually run fine under W7:-
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/does_it_run_on_win_7_thread
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SQRBTM4zbzl0Zf1_Tpo2dTd1zlQzL3FAOiINUV_8ksY

Thank you very much, I'll be checking it out soon.

Going by your wishlist, there should still be some time (and purchases) left, before you run out of games, that run under Win7.

True.

Just seeing Doom 1 and 2 and then Fallout 2 and so on keep coming up as windows 10 it feels a little , ok microsoft stop trying to racket me.

and Gothic 2 ! (amongst others now).

Basically when GOG changes the requirements for an old game without the game actually changing, they say two things:
1. They will not offer support if you don't meet the new requirements.
2. They list what's required in order to install the game through Galaxy, or for the Galaxy installer if you will, and those are the requirements of Galaxy.

But in order to make the games work through Galaxy they have also actually changed some games and broken the original OS compatibility in the process. I'm sure AB2012 could write at length about that...

I'd imagine because it's ancient and deprecated. The world may never know. lol

They stopped supporting Windows 7 for the same reason they don't support DOS, Windows 98, or Windows XP. Dead operating system is dead.

They don't support Linux because they won't hire competent programmers who can work in Unix/Linux.

Two words:

Linux;
ZOOM.

gOg is not killing off W7, Microsoft did that when they eneded W7 support January last uear.

W7 is now a dead and unsupported OS, and like all other dead and unsoprted OS's, it is being phased out.

It is perfectly fine if you as a private indvidual want to use a dead OS, I still have and AMiga running Workbench 3.1, but a company who want to do buisness cannot base this on a dead OS. I also dont expect gOg to have games that are Workbench 3.1 compatible either. (even thoug they do sell some Amiga games here)

Luckily, we have good teams Like Heroic Game Launcher, Lutris, MiniGalaxy, who give us, Linux user the opportunity to play GOG games as easy as in other os, GOG will probably never support Linux so it's better than nothing.

But I agree with dead os, it's not GOG fault if Microsoft want you to pay a brand new os every 5 years and stop maintaining older ones to push you into the new ones even if they still working fine for Most peoples.

Clicks pocketwatch.

Because Windows 7 was closer in release to Oblivion than it was Skyrim, like Windows XP was closer to Morrowind.

And by that measurement, we're talking at least one massive computing era ago; back when single core CPUs were still a thing.
(IE, the Celeron G470 released in 2013.)

Oh well, you can just buy a refurbished workstation from an office and put a Linux of Choice on it.

It's n't so impor'ant which you pick, just that you'll want to study the starting desktop and package repositories. For example, if I hadn't picked the boring but bleeding edge Fedora (one of the first to field Wayland), I'd probably have picked OpenSuse; both of which are RPM based but have a different support base for packages.

And since I refuse the conciet of Flatpak but understand how it may be useful for many users, I do operate on a rather old metric, I realize.

That makes sense, but for a store that was once known as Good OLD Games it would also make sense to try to offer better backwards compatibility than other stores.

The very least thing they could do is to have some customers with older OS play those games and report if they are playable, and they could have some kind of slot in the game card: "Reported to work with Windows XP, but GOG doesn't offer any guarantee or support for this operating system."

Also, they could put those missing original game exe files in some games which are packaged with ScummVM.


So between "fully supported" and "no support at all", there is a lot of ground that they could cover.

Ah, the saga continues...

Sadly, users of older OSes are now left very much on their own - even to the point of breaking previously working games.

And GOG aren't bothered about blocking access to games libraries - so those on Win7/8, etc should consider taking/updating offline downloads while it's still possible.

Relevant wishlist entries:

Keep games compatibile with old (non-Win10) windows versions
Offer original CD isos and untouched original files for use on legacy hardware for old titles
Stop removing original versions of games when you sell the remastered ones
ISO image of the original games disk(s) as bonus
Images of Original Installation Media
To have the option to download original installation files for DOS games

No, gOg's ethos have been to make old gmes run on modern computers