On December 7th, 2023, we will discontinue support for Windows 7 and 8 operating systems.
After support is discontinued players will be unable to launch EVE Online if they are using these operating systems. The minimum requirements for EVE Online will be updated to reflect the change, indicating that Windows 10 and later will be supported.
Our continued support of these operating systems has now significantly impacted the team’s ability to maintain and develop new feature sets. By discontinuing support, we have the opportunity to unlock further security features in the launcher and give us more flexibility to choose external solutions as we develop EVE and its foundations further.
Players needing to transition from Windows 7 and 8 may find this Microsoft page useful.
Over the next few weeks, we will continue to message these changes via the launchers, discord, targeted emails to affected users and via news articles.
They will not be missed on their ancient potato PCs/laptops.
EVE Online will march forward to glory in the next era of technology. If you are using windows 7/8 when we are at windows 11 and almost windows 12 in a few more years, I don’t know what to say to you retro gamers.
Dumb response. We need all the players we can get at this stage, alienating those who prefer older windows systems is retarded. I still have at least 2 windows 7 pcs that work fine and i prefer over the invasive windows 10 / 11 systems.
At least you all can still install the original installer and just watch the beauty of a launcher and spinning logo
It’s really too bad CCP shut down EVE Anywhere, that would have solved this issue for the people that are sticking to older OS’
As much as I understand the need to move away from supporting older operating systems (because it can’t be done indefinitely anyway, at some point it becomes an indisputable need), the temporal correlation with Microsoft’s recent decision is…unfortunate.
Thus, CCP’s decision to end support for Windows 7/8 and thus block the possibility of playing EVE Online in December for owners of this system looks like an immediate disposal of the hassle of supporting older systems - which, despite their years, did not cause problems with the game.
I’m guessing that the resellers of Windows 10 keys at suspiciously low prices on some shady looking websites will be very happy about this turn of events.
I flatly refuse to ‘upgrade’ from 7. That’s how serious I am about not being spied on or having advert popups.
Steam can kiss my ass, and so can this game.
Just not doing it.
The dumbest thing for some people about the update from 7/8 straight to Windows 10 is that if you’re having i7 processor… It’s not supported by Windorws 10 and hence you can’t upgrade.
You click install on Steam and press the play button.
It’s the same launcher, it will create a steam connected account, but you can just ignore that and add all the others if you otherwise don’t use steam.
Outside of Steam there is Lutris, which is basically a Tool that does all the tricky stuff to get games running.
Just give it a try. I played EVE on Linux for over a decade, since Trinity. I never actually played it on Windows (Since my last Windows was 98se)
