But on games on CD/DVD or older, provided you have the hardware you can always use them

try to buy a SHA1 SSL certificate so you can support clients that don't support SHA256. just see who will sell you one

And what's more important, is given the direction of travel, you will find people being banned on Steam for poltiical views or in-game behaviour

that’s also not true. Steam states in their EULA SPECIFICALLY that you are PURCHASING digital copies of the titles you buy. You have executive rights with whatever you do to them, which is why you have clear access to steam/steam apps/common and it’s not all hidden in a secret folder where you can’t touch it.

Or whatever the platform is at the time (Stadia etc)

steam are definitely not immune to political posturing - remember 'Hatred'?

Also, it’s not planned obsolescence. Your OS is deprecated. It is dead. It will die soon as all programs update around it. Either by abandoning support, or the programs simply becoming too advanced for your machine to handle. That is not the fault of the companies for advancing their programs as the technology advanced. That’s on you.

`[6:57 PM] Eccles: And what's more important, is given the direction of travel, you will find people being banned on Steam for poltiical views or in-game behaviour
`

It's planned obsolenscence

And you’re retarded.

I’ve said all I’ve needed to. You clearly don’t understand what you’re talking about.

@system11 you mean when it was brought back

and Gaben apologized?

reputation seems clean to me

Gespa - if you decide you are going to stop supporting an operating system, then that is planned obsolenscence

That's what the term means

We will stop support x at time y

that's

not

planned

The reasons are entirely reasonable

that's just obsolesence

you idiot

ah i didnt realise theyd reinstated it

jesus

you are so dumb

Of course it's fucking planned

it was rubbish btw

*facepalm*

XP is a shit OS

No, planned obsolescence is when you decide from the start when to cut it off strategically so you can force your customers to buy things on your own schedule.

that requires you to bend over backwards to support as a developer

Look at Microsoft's website, they state at the outset when they are supporting software until

ITS NOT PLANNED BY THE DEVELOPERS

Planned obsolescence is like what Apple does

BECAUSE IT'S A BITCH TO KEEP SUPPORTED

AND ONLY IDIOTS USE IT ANYWAYS

Yes, Coolitic, the reasons for doing it are understandable

LIKE U

No, Eccles, that isn’t what it means. Planned obsolescence is the deliberate action of abandoning perfectly viable firmware for the purpose of forcing users to upgrade their system. Your OS is decades old. Over a decade.

im having problems now accessing websites from my XP laptop, i cant get a new browser for it