Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase

• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If I back up a DRM-free installer what’s the difference?

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Legally, it’s still a license, it’s just effectively impossible to revoke.

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    • TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just like any game ever sold on a CD.

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      • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  unless you keep the offline installers.

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  • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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    • GhiLA@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, gentlemen. I guess we got this all sorted out. Not a big deal, after all.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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      • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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