I don't think steams going to be willing to have a possible back door situation by trying to program compatibility for a small group of people, let alone the support. It would be nice if steam had a legacy installer or something so you could keep using it but only with things that might still be compatible. i have multiple computers for different versions of windows for a reason. This is coming from someone who still uses MS office 2003 on a win 10 pc lol. Unfortunately its because its too outdated, has security issues, no updates, nobody coding for that old of an OS AND isn't compatible with updates and systems that they are building/updating into steam. Your personal and financial data has already been leaked by giant corporations(AND government agencies) multiple times and no operating system upgrade will affect that. You are literally pushing a marketing illusion, nothing more. And I'm even less interested in hearing the 'muh security' meme for the 5000th time. No, I'm not interested in the Valve acolytes lecturing me about how it's impossible for Steam to enable small mode or something comparable for W7 users so they can still access their games.

That's the trade-off you get for being the first major game platform to literally cripple your client. But I'm now de-prioritizing Steam as having any access to my wallet. I figure I'll still need to use Steam to get State of Decay 3 because it's either that or the Microsoft Store. Any game I can buy and use without paying Steam, I will. GOG or any upstart game platforms that don't lock my lawfully purchased games, many from decades before W10 even existed, behind a pointless W10 requirement, will be getting the money I was going to give to Valve. I've poured tons of money into Steam and were it not for this ridiculous new precedent of 'disabling Steam for W7' instead of doing like everyone else and either providing a scaled-down version, or just letting people run the last supported version, I would continue to do so. I routinely buy at least a couple, if not several, every month. Folks, I've been on Steam since it launched.

It's so funny because so many of the 'shut up and upgrade' bullies keep claiming that Steam's reason for doing this is that 'you're not profitable'.

W10 shut up