Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does it? What recourse do you have if they change their policy and you don’t have local backups of your games?

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Undoing DRM-free quickly enough that I couldn’t download my remaining installers would be speedrunning the failure of a company faster than Unity, but other than that, they can’t take away what I and others have already downloaded.

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    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Neither can Steam. Then the difference is down to those games on Steam which are not DRM-free.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The difference is that even with the convenience of a launcher, I can decline an update that would undo DRM-free rather than manually copying every vetted DRM-free game on Steam to another directory every time there’s a patch. And that’s only to entertain this apocalyptic what-if that would never happen because it would trigger false advertising law suits would instantly destroy the company.

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  • TallonMetroid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If ownership is what you’re worried about, why wouldn’t you already have the installers downloaded and backed up?

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    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh, I absolutely would – I’m just making a point based on a previous statement earlier in the thread:

      Considering games with no DRM can have it added retroactively, that Steam pushes updates I may not want with no option to decline

      If the practice is that you need local backups on purchase anyway, then I fail to see the difference between non-DRM games on Steam and those on GOG. It feels like a different goalpost is being used depending on what service is being discussed.

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