This is not true. Don’t spread this false “you don’t own your games” narrative.
You buy a perpetual license for a copy of the game. It’s called a license because you are not buying the actual game but a copy. It’s exactly the same way other software works as well as music and other media.
The whole point of SKG is that we do own our games but publishers are trying to act otherwise.
Here, Ross who started SKG explains it better.
imecth@fedia.io 1 day ago
Nobody's giving you a perpetual license to anything, even GOG, any license you're "buying" (this keyword is actually not allowed on stores like steam for exactly this reason) can be revoked at any time for whatever reason they want.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
That’s just not true. Inform yourself to save future embarrassment.
You are confusing licensing and terms of service.
imecth@fedia.io 21 hours ago
Do you really own your game if it can be unilaterally taken away from you ? Copyright law is fucked and the software industry is happy with the status quo - no owning a license that's behind dozens of pages of TOS is not owning a game.