- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I really can't see everyones problem with this.
Years ago, lucasarts brought out X-Wing 3D, oh no, if i want to play it i needed to go and buy a 3D card. They didn't force me to buy it, if i wanted to play a game that they had coded to use a 3D card, that was the choice they made.
When windows ME came out and some (although small amount of) programs had the "does not work with windows 9x" sticker on the front, that was the choice the writers had made. A similar situation arose with XP when many old programs would not work, a few could be fixed by using the "Force MS-DOS mode" within XP but again some programs would simply not work.
Grand Theft Auto gets release, oh no, my card i bought back in 199x wont work with it.... if i want to play it, i have to get a new card, again, not forced to but simply how the systems have aged.
Now, Microsoft have written a new OS and to take advantage of it and to make the experience better for their users, Bungie/MS are optimising the program to run on this system. It's all well and good saying things like "they could make it work on XP if they wanted to" and yes it's obvious that they could. They COULD of made it work perfectly well on Windows98 but it would not be as good as they wanted it to be. No-one is forcing you to go out and upgrade to Vista, no-one is telling you you have to have the latest thing on the street, there is a game, it has system requirements, if your pc doesnt meet them you can either shrug it off and say "i cant run that" and go and play something else, or you can upgrade and meet the requirements and play the game.
There is so much speculation about what will/what wont work with Vista that no-one knows if you WILL need a new PC, a new graphics card, etc etc. It's basically a case of sitting it out, waiting to see what you need to do and decide if you want to upgrade your pc accordingly.