Re: Will the legendary edition be playable on Windows 8.1?

Windows upgrade promotion is ended but the connections are still active and the licence upgrade is still valid. Beside, as @PSUHammer  mentioned, it is great OS.

@sweetpoison0011There are ways around that. If you get the Windows USB media tool, all it wants is your existing OS key. I have reinstalled Windows with this tool a number of times already. May not work for OEM versions of Windows.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows10

It works even for OEM and/or factory default OS key. Also works with windows update tool but USB version allows you to install 64 bit even if your original 7/8/8/1 was 32 bit.

I have tried and tried and tried to update to windows 10 and each and every time I get a new and different install error and the same exact work around that also does not work. I have been trying to update since well before the free update period ended. Short of buying a new computer, which I cannot afford, windows 10 is not apparently an option for me and I can’t imagine I’m the only one who can’t get the bloody thing to work. 

I think this thread should be focused on actually solving OPs problem the proper way (getting the game to run on 8.1) instead of talking about windows 10. I don't have the game so i can't test but where i can i'll try to help anyone whos willing to try.

I agree with you, but it seems ME:LE is 'doze 10 only.  Taken it off my Steam wishlist as a consequence.  Maybe modders will probide a shim library to get it to work on earlier versions of 'doze, but I'm absolutely not using Win10 on my network, therefore I'll stick to the original versions.