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Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

This is a thread where someone claimed that you don’t own the games on Steam but you do on GOG, this is the comment the person was replying to:

In case of Steam.

With GOG I get an actual license key & terms that state my ownership.

So yes, that’s exactly what the person is saying. So the fact that GOG can’t remotely wipe your drive is a strawman fallacy, because neither can Steam, and the differences between GOG and Steam is what’s being discussed, so anything that is the same has no bearing on the discussion.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

GOG is the only big option if you want to own the games you purchase.

I think it’s pretty clear from context that they mean they have the ability to perpetually play the games because of the lack of DRM, not the right.

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- Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Again, the same is true for Steam, so that’s a moot point when comparing GOG to Steam which is what this thread is about.
  
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  - JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No it’s not. If Steam goes down you cannot keep playing your games without using a crack to get around the DRM.
    
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    Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    If you backed up your game folder yes you can. Most games on Steam have no DRM, so just copying the folder is enough to play it on another computer. Then there are badly implemented games which you would need to replace the steam library with an open implementation (which doesn’t involve cracking the game). And finally there are games with DRM which are not available on GOG so they’re irrelevant to the discussion.
    
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