Quote Originally Posted by Ransu View Post
I play a ton of old games on win11 just fine...Compatibility mode now a days is way better than it was when it was implemented into win7.
And the games I play have a mixed history of working or not with Windows 10, much less Windows 11.

The main game that I'm worried about had it's last EP released in 2008. Windows 7 was launched in 2009. The base game was released in 2004.

Yes, I might have absolutely no issues besides getting the game to recognize my graphics card; but at the same time, I could stumble into the one combination of stuff that means I can't play the game anymore and no fixes will consistently work if they work at all. And that's not currently a gamble that I want to make, no matter how rare of a chance that that may be. Hopefully, I get to choose when I get to make that gamble and not have it forced on me by computer breakage. I have decided that when the time comes for me to buy a new computer that it will be at least Windows 10.

I have my reasons for staying. They may not be a reason strong enough for you to stay on an outdated OS, and that's fine. I also wouldn't be complaining on a game or software company's forum stating that it was the company's fault that I can't play their game or use their software anymore because they released an update that removed the ability to play on Windows 7. So if the fixes posted hadn't worked for FFXIV and the update really did mean I couldn't play FFXIV anymore, then I'd be upset, but I wouldn't blame SE at all for it. I go into updates like this knowing that if I lose the ability to play, it's my fault for being on an outdate OS that's no longer supported.