Quote Originally Posted by AarosLunos View Post
Errr FFXI was technical DX7/. Which is significantly more archaic then DX9. There are still new games launching today with DX9 and that is perfectly acceptable. The reason developers do this is because Windows XP is still supported and has large install base. Unfortunately MS screwed consumers and developers alike with their decision not release newer versions of DX for WinXP.
Maybe Microsoft wants to earn money? If they just updated Windows XP till the year 3000 I highly doubt they would make much profit. If you pay 200 bucks for a DX11 GPU, you should also be able to pay 100 bucks for Win7 :P
And all the games that come out as DX9 today are shunned(People complain that they are not using DX11). So I can't really think of any reason to make a game with these requirements use such an old interface except failing developers.