Even as a WinXP supporter, I can fully understand their want to not continue support for it (though I do take issue with the mandate of Galaxy needing Win7+. See the
Fallout New Vegas debacle for more on that). The reasons why are easy to deduce :
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The current statistics put XP at about 5% market share. Supporting such a small sector of the market, in combination with other listed reasons doesn't warrent much justification for them as a business. Most people will have Win7 they're thinking (correctly).
- Support is over for it and, outside the recent security update for ransomware, there's only a small segment of the population that can securely maintain that operating system, making GOG's support awkward when any encountered issues could be due to users allowing a multitude of issues onto their machine.
Personally I'm not thrilled about the drop in support for an OS that plays so many of the games here so well, but given the above facets, I can understand the reasoning behind it. That said, I don't need GOG's support on it. If the game is capable of being run on XP (meaning no DirectX support beyond 9.0c, or GOG hasn't hobbled it by using Win API's that required Vista on (
looking at you Galaxy!!!) ), then I'm confident in my ability to get the game running. Combined with the support of some fellow supporters here, I think we're fine.
