unless you keep the offline installers.
Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase
Voyajer@lemmy.world 10 months agosupport.gog.com/…/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?pr…
Check 2.1, GOG is the same.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Voyajer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean at that point you can just make backups of your steam games too. A lot work straight from the exe and for the rest there are steam simulators.
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well, gentlemen. I guess we got this all sorted out. Not a big deal, after all.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
A small minority of GOG games have DRM, a majority of Steam games have a form of DRM. “Use a simulator” isn’t a solution, I shouldn’t need a third party program to play the games I paid for.
yamanii@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Which gog games have DRM? The costumers over there even protested Hitman’s inclusion in the store precisely because without internet you can’t unlock anything in the game, GOG even removed it from sale.
can@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
If I back up a DRM-free installer what’s the difference?
radix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Legally, it’s still a license, it’s just effectively impossible to revoke.
TheEntity@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just like any game ever sold on a CD.
xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Technically, probably yes, but you can buy old, opened games on eBay. I doubt you can do the same with GOG games. Digital media is much harder if not impossible to resell.
fushuan@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If you back up the folder of a steam installed game that doesn’t need steam to run, what’s the difference?
Owning the copy in a legal sense doesn’t affect most of the userbase tbh.