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[Warhound]

First things first...
Thanks Wolf and everyone who spends hours and hours to improve our gaming experience. That goes for squads, serveradmins, missionmakers and so forth.
It's much appreciated and without you this game would be dead in the water.

And to continue offtopic...
I doubt anyone could sue 1C and win if they dropped DirectX 9 altogether... It won't be the first software(nor game) to do it and it won't be the last. With no reports of anyone ever winning a lawsuit over it.
As examples there are EVE-Online which has upped it's minimum shader requirements at least twice since it's inception and Team Fortress 2 which dropped Dx8 support aswell.
Probably other software that i don't know about did the same.
Neither had an expansion which you had to buy, so no new minimum requirements at the time of purchase. They just posted a few months in advance that shader 2.0 or Dx8 would be dropped at such and such date and that was it.
Ofcourse some people missed the announcement and had to scramble after patchday to keep on playing..but those were a massive minority and never read threats about lawsuits..let alone any being filed ,making it to court and won.
Yes a certain part of this community will shout murder and act like it's worse than WWIII breaking out, but fgs don't let a minority drag down the whole game.

Only reason I can think of to keep dx9 would be if a large part of Russian customers still runs very old hardware, but seeing as even they seem to buy expensive computers, joysticks, pedals ,TrackIR,... I'm not convinced that is the case.