Technically no, they’re but supposed to be re-sold. Says so on box and disc.
DRM free means there’s no digital rights management, meaning there’s no ownership restrictions essentially.
GoG was also, reading between the lines, recently going to be closed. It was basically given to one of the founders of CDPR. Why would CDPR do that if it was making any sort of profit?
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
I think the not allowed to be resold and saying so on the box must depend on your country. In mine it is allowed and doesn’t say you can’t on the box just that you have to abide by Sony terms of service and all that which they’ve said before doesn’t prohibit you reselling the discs.
I know what DRM is but DRM free games are still restricted in that I can’t trade or sell it however if gog ever banned me since I already have the offline installers backed up I could still continue to enjoy my games and they can’t ever take them away short of suing me or something.
Sony already said before you can sell and trade disc games (which is why they are going after them now)
Also GOG has an annual revenue of around $250 million. I think they just wanted to focus more on being a game publisher instead of running a competing storefront against steam.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Might be country dependant, in my country they have lending and re-sale as not allowed:
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Check the writing starting from the bottom left of the disc and going clockwise around the edge.