GOG seems to have joined the anti-WinXP complot that obviously exists in gaming industry now.

I don't care much about newer games that don't support XP right from the outset, or even about modern "remakes", "reduxes' and other kinds of crap that somehow remove XP compatibility from old games that initially were made for XP or even earlier OSs.

But what is really much much worse, GOG gives the false system requirements for old games that run on XP absolutely fine. Examples are City of Abandoned Ships, Fallen Enchantress and God knows how many games more (I need to scour through my library to find out more).

About a one third of all desktop PCs on this damned planet still has XP on board, and amongst old-school gamers and GOG users this proportion must be even greater.

It's a shame. GOG, you disappoints me more and more every month I stay with you.

I think its more of an "we don't test it there anymore so we cannot promote in good conscience" than them actually not working.

edit: switched wrong word; need to focus more while typing :/

Windows XP came out 15 years ago. Support ended three years ago. I think by this point, you'd want to move on by now. Stop trying to support the 15 year old carcass of an OS. It'd be like if I give a program OS X Cheetah support or tried to make a Linux application use the KDE 1 styling guidelines.

When they say "Windows (Vista, 7, 8, 10)", they aren't saying it doesn't work on anything other than the systems they list, but only that this is the list of systems where they have tested and are willing to guarantee that it works.

I fixed that for you.

EDIT: Actually not totally certain what you wanted to say but pretty sure not 'coincidence'.

XP is dead, get over it. Nuff said.

I thought he meant to say "good conscience".

Anyway, I believe that anothername is absolutely correct and that GOG has simply stopped testing games on XP because apparently they don't consider it viable anymore, and without testing they can't slap XP support on the gamecard.

Frankly I can't blame that at all. If a user still insists on using XP he has to expect hurdles of this kind by now. I mean, for the love of God, that OS is sixteen years old and official support ended three years ago.

Aye, but some people like to animate it and to play with undead :D But mostly that are not a gaming PCs. Just an unreasonable hypothesis.

The original point of GOG was to provide and maintain game compatibility with new and modern operating system. Support for pre-winXP operating systems was cut from the start of the service. This did not mean that games would not work on older operating systems, it mean GOG would not provide support for installing and running games on older operating systems (now it also applies to refunds, ie. you can only get refund if you're having problems with supported operating systems).

Same goes for game developers. They simply do not want to or have capability (ie. they don't have a single machine that runs WinXP anymore) to provide support for WinXP even if their game worked on it in the end.

Same applies to other operating systems as well you know. GOG only supports certain versions of Mac OS and only specific versions of specific distributions of Linux. Despite this many Mac games work on older versions of MacOS and most linux games can be made to run on other distributions.

While I can see the OP point, (I also have XP and check all games SysReq before buying here), I don't share the sense of entitlement. Maybe I'm the wrong generation to accumulate snowflake points, but in GoG's place, if I were to put my name to a game it would work. We can ask them to test new games on XP, but we can't expect it. Unless we are prepared to pay a premium on all games to cover the cost of time / hardware testing on admittedly an outdated system.

If the OP knows there are games out there that can run on XP which are not stated as such here then he probably does what I do.....use Google to see if it's worth buying.

I only buy from GoG now, but I can play detective with Google / Youtube.

Would not be a bad idea to get a list going: GOG games that work on Windows XP. Why not a GOG mix as well.

I have a strictly offline XP installation for some old games too but mainly use newer Windows and Linux.

I understand your apology of GOG :)

But I tell about games pages that had "WinXP" sysreqs noted and about games that had been already tested on XP by GOG stuff. These games DO RUN and will EVER RUN on WinXP. it's all about changing the info on the appropriate game pages, deleting XP mention from them. I don't think it's fair.
That's exactly my situation! I do have the main desktop with Win7, and I have an offline GOG-gaming desktop with WinXP.

Probably their way of saying that their support for it is OVER.

Well, if so I think this way is wrong one, sorry. Just put a big sticky announcement somewhere aroung the main page, stating "We don't provide support for WinXP-running games anymore" or something like that.

XP was a good OS, but it has been supplanted by newer technologies. It happens, Digital TV replaced Analogue TV, Internal combustion replaced external.

As other have said, its not a conspiracy, simply GoG can not ensure the installer will work