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486@lemmy.world 1 day agoonline servers for authentication
I am not aware of any game on GOG that requires an online server for authentication. I’m not saying no such thing exists - I don’t own every single game on GOG, but that would go against the whole DRM free thing. Care to name a few games that do this? I don’t mean games that have an online mode that require a server, but games that just require authentication against an online server to be able to play the game.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You are talking about always-on DRM, I was talking about dependence on the servers for connecting to the multiplayer. Most of GOG games lose partial funtionality when servers get shut down as GOG doesn’t use/host their own servers.
486@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You specifically said “online servers for authentication”. That’s what I understood as just that - a server required to be able to play the game, not a server required to use an actual online feature of a game. Don’t get me wrong, I very much prefer when games allow multiplayer games without requiring a server run by the publisher. All that is very different from what the posts title is about, though.
By the way, there are still games on GOG that let you run local servers for multi player gaming.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
And then continued in the next sentence. In context it makes sense, without it I can understand your confusion.
And I’m not trying to attack GOG, just highlighting the reaility of online “onwership” in general. GOG and Itch.io are the best we can get without real regulations.