Comment on #StopPayingGames

• yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Guess You mean GoG, they do offer most games as fully downloadable installer and most licences fully allows You to keep them forever, even if servers and services of Gog goes down. Not all of them, as they also offer games with separate launchers and stuff. Some games may be online only, like mmo genre, not much to do here, even if You manage to get all files stored. There’s always chance publisher takes the game off the store, or there may be some legal issues. Gog still trying to provide fully offline installers as much as possible, or even provide own, (semi) unofficial patches to old games to make them run smoothly on new operating systems (not intended to by original devs).

  Much awesome, even if cannot say all games DRM free.

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  • TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No, I know GOG provides plenty of DRM-free games, what I meant is, I remember something about Steam having a system to make games DRM-free in case they went under or something. Maybe it was something different or even misinformation, though.

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    • yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh, surely GoG have lots and lots of drm-free games. It is big part of store, mentioned in ads and many interviews. They actively providing more and more drm-free, probably even silently cheer up SKG (even if avoiding saying this loud).

      My point was, not every single game on Gog store is drm-free.

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