You don’t own the games on GoG either. You just get to keep a installer in case you lose your license.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Although ubisoft is a shit company, don’t think it’s the only one. Every game you bought on Steam, Origin and Epic aren’t your property either. You just bought the right to play their game for as long as they allow you to.
If you truly want to own your products, buy on GoG (you will get the offline installer as a download) or pirate. Because when you pirate, you have more rights and benifits than a paying customer.
Companies don’t even care anymore, it’s just a money grab with the newest bug simulator. As soon as the first purchase bubble ended, the project is abandoned and people are stuck with a piece of junk they do not even own.
In the exceptional case a dev truly delivers, like indie studios or Larian studio, the game dev world goes mental as it shows how corrupt and fucked up they are.
Support the few proper devs, pirate the rest. I pirate everything these days and when the game is good I’ll buy it.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Which is like a physical copy of the game. But if the game is only online and the servers go down, you own an installer of a non-functioning game.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If steam ever goes away pirating will increase by at least 1000%…
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I have over 500 games on steam. If the platform dies, that would be a major loss for me.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
If steam goes down my only fun in life will be making a virus that makes multi cellular life impossible