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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'

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JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Which is why you don’t have physical copies of those games - you bought a steam key, exactly like you could have done digitally from humblebundle of greenmangaming or myriad of other stores, this one just had it printed on a piece of paper instead of sending you an email.

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GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
So all those files on the disc I had to install were for something else then?

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- JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Helped you (and Valve) to save some bandwidth. But yes. If it requires a Steam account to play, you bought a license allowing you to access a game and not an actual game you own.
  
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  - GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    So it’s anti consumer bullshit.
    
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    cybermass@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    That is done because of a game publisher, not steam.
    
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