The gamers who demanded it stay online may not know, or even cared to check, that many of the games they used to play on it are no longer on the store, or their online features have been removed.Īs I had explained when reporting about the Wii U and 3DS eShop stores yesterday, this deprecation of these store platforms is inevitable, for a variety of reasons. The PlayStation 3 store, in spite of staying online, is hardly used to justify its continued existence. But this deprecation of support for older systems still has an effect on the preservation of older games, losing the authenticity of that game experience.īut this experience is not unique to PC. Many have also received remakes and remasters to update them to modern systems. Now, many of these games will also run on Windows 10, and Windows 11 now.

Let me list a few examples of games that can run on Windows 7: Now, it may be hard to visualize exactly what games we are talking about here. If you lamented the recent closure of the Wii U and 3DS eShops, and also spoke out against Sony closing the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita stores, you should know that this is the same sort of thing Valve is doing now, at a smaller scale. That does mean only a very small number of Steam users would be affected by this change. But if you had concerns that using Chrome compromised your security, in particular if you individually good reasons to be wary of using the browser, you needed to know this.Īs reported by Dexerto, less than 2 % of all Steam users use Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.

It is certainly easy to be complacent in thinking that Valve is doing everything right by their users. While Google Chrome is the most popular web browser today, and definitely one of the fastest if not the fastest, Chrome is also associated with data collection and loss of privacy protections. So if you weren’t aware of this before, you should know now that Valve’s Steam client uses an embedded version of Google Chrome.

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