Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store

• denial@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes. But you can download an offline installer, that they cannot take away. So it’s sill a big difference.

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  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The steam version of hollow knight allows you to play it without steam installed. Silksong probably is the same

    GOG allows you to guarantee that this happens for all games though

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Steam also has a method of creating offline backups for every game on it.

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      • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not quite the same, you can only restore those with your Steam Account. For GOG it’s just an installer for the game, which you can run and install anywhere as many times as you want, without needing any access to your account.

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Legally, it’s exactly the same. You don’t own anything.

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    • denial@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As I said: Yes.

      But legally it’s not much different with physical media of games or music as well. You don’t own it. Just a copy you are allowed to use in some ways (but not others).

      But besides that in reality there is a big difference, if you are still able to play it or not, if the servers are shut down.

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