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First off, @holger1405 and @EA_Atic, thank you both so very much for taking the time to answer. Regardless of whether it's your job or your passion, just taking the time to offer another person that individual touch is a dying act of valor in our world and I REALLY appreciate it.
Now you two heroes go away, I'm about to get mean and it's not at either of you.
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Ok, to be fair when I initially read the announcements for MEL including the system specs, I somehow missed or DISMISSED the OS... I'm sure it just must've seemed incredibly dumb to say such a thing for a REMASTER using the same GAME ENGINE that I had to have completely subconsciously eliminated this fact from my brain! I mean after all I've been able to run every single high FPS game that's come out on my custom designed rig running Win8.1 for almost 8 years now, so I should've just blindly swallowed this new irrational limit that has nothing to do with the ability of my PC which currently already had ALL 3 MASS EFFECT games installed, it didn't matter that I run them at MAX performance just like EVERY other game on my rig, surely the publisher would ONLY MAKE a LIMIT like this for a good reason!
EA. Bioware. You 2 f@#YUing companies are garbage, trash, and I don't care if you come out with Shepherd's Super VR Space Opera, neither company deserves another dime. Since at least 2010 (or that's when I started to notice), you have consistently and repeatedly made it clear that as a whole business venture you don't care for nor care to truly honor your customers. Sure you've found amazing new ways to homogenize and average and milk the buying habits of gamers from 10-40, include people who didn't used to game and expand, but as a whole you have completely and utterly tossed out of your world view any sense of concern about what is truly in the heart and soul of people, like your customers. Did any of your corp monkeys and max-profit-obsessed zombies actually work out exactly WHY the Mass Effect trilogy and ONLY the trilogy are so incredibly, irrationally powerfully loved that even the poorly exectued idea of a basic, modest, cheaply budgeted remaster was able to attract so many and so passionate of customers willing to pre-buy? DURING A GLOBAL RECESSION?! Hint, it wasn't the system requirements!
Yeah right. Fricking traitors, soul suckers. MS stroked you just right, didn't they. Let you off on the licensing fees, or was it gave you a much cheaper option to implement some form of DRM using only the new platform. What was it, you can tell me... as if.
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Short version. Releasing a remaster touting no need for new hardware, marketing to the point of pimping the massive upsacling and inceased performance and appearance of the artwork, with only minor tweaking to mechanics such as corrections to the oldest and WEAKEST title but just in case we should make it limited to one OS already known for not being game friendly. Yeah, that was brilliant thinking. Somebody get that corporate shmuck a copy of Home Alone 9. You've won the "Sold somebody a polished *" award.
I really understand your frustration, and I hope that Bioware is fixing this at least for Windows 8.1.
But the truth is Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 are dying Operating Systems.
Windows 7 is completely out of support. Windows 8.1 is out of standard support since 2018, (Not out of extended support though, so there is no security concern here).
I am working in the computer business for a very long time, and I see the security problems that out of support Operating Systems cause first hand.
I don't know why you don't want to Upgrade to 10, but if it is the extended "Telemetry" Windows 10 uses, there are easy ways to get around that. 😉
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