Which numbers? Windows 10 represents 60% of the operating system share worlwide... Windows 7 22%... which makes Steam stats believable.

.... so what?

No need to shout at me... some users will think you are an angry Karen... also what kind of twisted logic is this? Are you aware that what you wrote does not make any sense, nor does not prove anything?

"My numbers" being the worldwide stats, which are relevant because gaming is not just limited to hardcore gamers playing on dedicated gaming PCs any more. And GOG, as noted, is still short for "Good OLD Games" with gamers looking for OLDer games which run on OLDer systems being more likely to be regulars on here than on Steam.

You know this shows that you're being willfully ignorant, right?

What ever could I possibly be saying when pointing out that Windows 7 is BY FAR the closest Windows 10 has to anything resembling competition in terms of OS adoption rates? Did you consider that in a topic asking for devs to support a particular OS, the fact that it's BY A WIDE MARGIN the second most commonly-used OS in the current market could be relevant? And especially so when you're looking at a subsection of the market which is typically biased toward newer systems while GOG isn't, and the OS in question is now an aging option which has had primary support phased out (still getting security and other critical updates though).

I could say the same to you, except I'd be right when I do it. I'm using the kind of basic mathematics which I'd expect a below average 10 year old to laugh at you for not understanding. If you can't understand numbers that simple, you have no business pretending you're old enough to have a GOG account.

it hasnt for a while now

That's like saying that KFC no longer stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken because they don't use the full name in their marketing any more. The acronym still stands for the same thing it always did. They haven't made up a new name that uses the same starting letters and started marketing a separate meaning for the name. It's still GOG and it's still Good Old Games even though that isn't the primary focus of their marketing and isn't the only thing they offer.

If you buy your game on GOG then yes you are a hardcore gamer as GOG is niche comparing to Steam or even Epic. Majority of casual people playing games never heard about GOG sadly. They do not event know what Free-DRM games means...

You can find last month worldwide stats on netmarketshare if you need to. The majority of Windows versions are installed on office computers so the gaming ratio W10 against W7 is a bit closer to what Steam stats show us. Maybe GOG is in-between?

Also you wrote 'if I remove Windows 10 from the equation then W7 jumps from just over 5% to almost 50% '. I called that twisted logic because you are willingly twisting stats to try to show you are right. It is like saying: "if I remove everything but Windows 7 then it become 100%"... which does not prove anything... because in this thread we are talking about Galaxy being only supported on W10...

its not a new acronym, it just doesnt stand for anything anymore. its just gog

Well, you know, except that I'm excluding ONLY the SINGLE LARGEST MARKET SHARE operating system from the list and comparing Win7 to everything else, while noting the huge gap between Win7 and other OSes. It's like looking at a horribly unbalanced race and going "ok so first place was literally a comic book superhero who did 3 laps of the 1500m circuit instead of just the 100m sprint everyone else did and still finished first, but if we don't count him, this guy finished the 100m sprint before anyone else even reached 30m." The Flash still won the race, nobody's denying that, but the level by which the guy in second place was ahead of everyone OTHER than the guy who won is still worthy of pointing out.

And Galaxy also supports Win8 and 8.1 so... no we're talking about why it doesn't support the second-most-widely-used OS in the PC industry and in the gaming market in particular.

So it's August 2021, and GOG seems to have decided "screw the Win 7 users". As in their software doesn't even check to see if the user is running Win 7, it just deletes the working software, installs itself - then fails.

Two saving graces: there are older versions archived that one can re-install to gain access to the games, and once installed the games don't need GOG to run. But the writing is clear: going forward, GOG doesn't care for gamers who use Windows 7.

To those who have kept up with the Windows train, good for you. Some of us, however, have stayed with Win 7 for any variety of reasons. GOG seems to have forgotten their roots as "Good OLD Games", and seem to think they are powerful enough to force everyone to move to a new operating system. They share 25% of a market with numerous other vendors. Steam has 75% of that market. GOG isn't big enough to force the issue.

See, this is how the world works. The underdog has to try harder. Steam is *THE* top dog in game delivery with at least 75% of the market share. GOG is the underdog. To get ahead, GOG has to be *better* than Steam.

They've failed. Badly. Steam supports Win 7. I don't have any issues using my Steam games. Yet suddenly, I can't use GOG. Oh, sure, I can play the games I've already installed. But not the ones I had in my library that I hadn't installed. Luckily, that's damn few, because I had my doubts about GOG.

The argument that "but so few people use Windows 7" doesn't hold water. It still has 16% of a *huge* market, estimated in the 100s of millions of machines still running Windows 7. GOG, on the other hand, shares 25% of a much smaller market (still large though) with numerous other delivery platforms. If the argument "don't use Windows 7 because its market share is weak" is a good one, then so is "don't use GOG because their market share is weak".

Then this debacle. Guess which platform I'll be staying with? Guess which one will be relegated to the dustbin of history of companies who attempt to impose an unwanted choice on their customers.

Screw you GOG. You lose. Steam has issues, yes, but they don't attempt (yet) to force an entire operating system on me that is incompatible with other software I need to use.

At least I don't have huge sums in GOG. My sympathy to those who jumped on the GOG wagon and have just been stabbed in the back.