• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    These articles are basically just advertising for GoG.
    They have the same issues as steam does regarding only selling licenses, or not having inheritable or transferable accounts.

    DRM free is great, but as a service they aren’t fundamentally different from steam. They just like to market themselves like they are.

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      2 months ago

      This has been posted a million times already, but I am still going to repeat it. Yes you are right, in their own legal docs they also only talk about licenses.

      Difference for the consumer however is that you get the installation files which are supposed to work offline. Meaning if you take care to store that, it will not be gone ever, no matter if GOG goes down. With Steam this gets more complicated and may only work for some games.

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        2 months ago

        I get that. DRM free is great and better. I just don’t like the advertisement that casts it as “you own the game”, or entire articles built around posts by their marketing department.
        It feels very ambulance-chaser-y.