Opening DDO Store crashes client to desktop

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If a company is going to stop supporting something, seems logical they would, you know, tell their customers about it.

Unlike {seemingly} many of our forumites, I'm not employed in the software world nor am I anything close to being a "computer guru" - if anything, I'm whatever the opposite of a guru is.

^That^ said, I've been playing and fiddling with computers for entertainment purposes since I was running Windows for Workgroups 3.1 on my 486 DX2. It has always been my understanding that when OS providers (most notably Apple & Microsoft) stop supporting outdated versions of their OS then supplemental software providers (ie Turbine, Adobe, Blizzard, etc) generally follow suit. I don't recall any other game providers making official announcements that "support for OS {variant here} will be stopping because {the OS provider} will stop supporting it." It always just sort of seemed to be s.o.p. that when an OS became outdated people still using it were on their own and it was no longer an obligation for current software providers to maintain backwards compatibility.

I know DDO left their minimum requirements unaltered for ages, but those min requs include more bad info than just the minimum OS. For instance, the min requs also claim only a single core 2.6gz P4 with 1 single gig of ram is sufficient - lol having just upgraded from exactly that (ok, I had 2 gig of ram) I can tell you those hardware min requs are also completely insufficient for the game. Why no rage over that as well?

Is it a "general rule" that software companies (and in particular/especially game providers) will always update their min requs post launch, and Turbine's simply been shrugging off that standard practice? Or is the "general rule" more along the lines of "stay modern or take your chances?" My observation has always been the latter. Are all yalls experiences & observations different?