Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, that’s for all content:

  and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content.

  Which they define as:

  1.3 Also, when we’re talking about games, in-game content, virtual items or currency or GOG videos or other content or services which you can purchase or access via GOG services, we’ll just call them “GOG games” or “GOG videos” respectively and when we talk about them all together they are “GOG content”.

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  • okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The license is with regards to “GOG Service”, not “GOG Contents”. You need the former to get access to the latter, sure. But what isn’t clear about this?

    You still own the contents (though, as mentioned, individual titles may have additional blablabla). If you don’t think this distinction makes sense when it comes to GoG vs Steam, then maybe you’re just discussing something entirely different?

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, you have to download the installer before they pull the rug.

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  • okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I suppose. If you are doing things against TOS and you suspect just might happen, by all means.

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