A lot of players are pretty frigging angry to discover the pathetic and tiny amount of notice that has been given about not continuing support for Windows 7 & 8. December gives paying players no notice, no time and no support to be able to transition! Players should be given a minimum of at least 6 months of notice when these announcements are made, to give players the adequate time needed to invest in new hardware and software. The reasons for this are pretty self-explanatory but I’ll explain them anyway, in case you have been living under a rock.
Many communities are still recovering and getting back on their feet post COVID, combined with the looming inflation problems, expensive costs of living and skyrocketing prices that have affected most countries around the world, ballooning the situation out of control. Combining this with the threats of global conflicts in Ukraine and now the Middle East, prices have continued to climb for many people.
This is one of the reasons why there has been a big boom in older model PC hardware such as graphics cards, RAM and CPU’s having such a strong comeback in the market place, because when people are struggling to put basic essentials such as food on the table or to pay their critical bills, the last thing that they have money for is to buy new computers or hardware.
I know hundreds of people who still run Windows 7 and 8; they are still using the same machines they have had for years and they simply do not have the funds to be able to upgrade their hardware or upgrade their operating system at this time.
I am also in that same position. I also run Windows 7 on all my machines, so I am not in a financial position to just go out and spend thousands of dollars on a new machine that runs Windows 10, just for a game. I was also planning on renewing my 3 month subscription in November this year, but what is the point in doing that if CCP are going to completely screw us over and shut us out as paying customers in December!!?
This decision by CCP is unnecessary, rather ridiculous with not enough adequate time or notice at all and it is going to hurt a lot of players unfairly, when you could have provided other alternatives such as common sense ideas like a backup transitional server for Windows 7 & 8 users for a set period of time or provided a better transitional period of 6 months to give us more time without dumping this decision in our laps with no notice or time whatsoever!
sarcastic But good to see CCP living up to its reputation of burning and screwing over the player base with ridiculous bullsh*t decisions that give us no time at all!! It seems obvious that our money as subscribers is simply not worth anything to CCP anymore to provide us with either more time or provide us with a transitional server that actually supports and looks after those paying subscribers!
Oh and before you use the weak ass excuse that Microsoft no longer supports Windows 7, so therefore you have to update things now to keep up, that is complete bullsh*t. Microsoft discontinued support for Windows 7 quite a long time ago and in that time there hasn’t been any issues, problems or security failures just because of this fact. Kindly look after your player base and stop being pricks.
You ain’t playing Cyberpunk or Starfield on Windows 7. Pretty much any modern AAA title really.