I'm in shock with such developers. I almost bought it because of this. Thanks for talking me out of it.

Originally posted by 落坨翔子:

It is strongly required to update the minimum standard of operation with win7 system. Why does the minimum operating system need win10?

The reason is that this was not made by a AAA studio. It was made by a single person. You can't expect solo devs to support operating systems that aren't supported by their own vendor anymore.

Originally posted by AnInfiniteArc:

The reason is that this was not made by a AAA studio. It was made by a single person. You can't expect solo devs to support operating systems that aren't supported by their own vendor anymore.

And yet his previous game, the Hollow Night-like Metroidvania platformer Haiku, the Robot from 2022, supported Windows 7, and some desktop add-on Rusty's Retirement 2024 no longer does. Even if it is just ONE person, no one stopped him from adding all the languages ​​of the world except Russian, and also publishing a future game about the Skatehouse store from a completely different developer in 2025. In both cases, Technologies Unity Engine was used, which makes it easy to add languages ​​via XUnity.AutoTranslator, but the developer chose to add as many as two versions of Chinese. The anomalous popularity indicated in the reviews does not allow him to lie about the profit received for both products, and one cannot simply attribute the lack of funds to the lack of adaptation for the minimum system requirements that were missing last time, as well as languages. So think for yourself whether it is worth doing business with him.

Originally posted by Mozetronick:

Originally posted by AnInfiniteArc:

The reason is that this was not made by a AAA studio. It was made by a single person. You can't expect solo devs to support operating systems that aren't supported by their own vendor anymore.

And yet his previous game, the Hollow Night-like Metroidvania platformer Haiku, the Robot from 2022, supported Windows 7, and some desktop add-on Rusty's Retirement 2024 no longer does. Even if it is just ONE person, no one stopped him from adding all the languages ​​of the world except Russian, and also publishing a future game about the Skatehouse store from a completely different developer in 2025. In both cases, Technologies Unity Engine was used, which makes it easy to add languages ​​via XUnity.AutoTranslator, but the developer chose to add as many as two versions of Chinese. The anomalous popularity indicated in the reviews does not allow him to lie about the profit received for both products, and one cannot simply attribute the lack of funds to the lack of adaptation for the minimum system requirements that were missing last time, as well as languages. So think for yourself whether it is worth doing business with him.

You started this response by pointing out that an older game supported an older operating system. How is that relevant? People used to make games that supported Windows 98, too.

I'm not really interested in how many languages the game supports in regards to this. I do not expect any developer to add support for operating systems that were superseded 12 years ago, discontinued 10 years ago, and support ended entirely 4 years ago. I don't care how much money they make. It would be nice if they did, but it's just not realistic after a certain point. I work in IT and we had to stop using Windows 7 for anything but extreme edge cases years ago, because much of the software we used didn't support it anymore.

I'm sorry you can't run it the way you want to but being outraged over it and questioning whether it's right to "do business with" the dev is a bit much.