• Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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      10 days ago

      Stop spreading this lie.

      https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog

      2.1 We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a ‘license’) to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.

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        10 days ago

        This refers to downloading, after you donwload the DRM Free Game from Gog there is no license or online check forever, the game is just yours.

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          10 days ago

          You can also do that on Steam, that doesn’t make it any less piracy.

          Not that there is anything wrong with that, but let’s stop pretending that GOG is somehow better than Steam.

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            10 days ago

            Nobody is saying you cannot do on Steam, the big difference is that you can do that on 100% of Gog games, on Steam only on a very small percentage.

            And there are other noticeable difference, on Steam you have to go through the file and backup them, on Gog you get the drm free installer for the last version of the game and any previous version that you want.

            Is clear to me that on this regard Gog is much better than Steam, would be crazy to say otherwise.

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              10 days ago

              Actually, FYI, you can do that for a large percentage of Steam games, maybe even most, if you use the Goldberg Emulator that replaces the steamapi DLL.

              Steam DRM is one of the easiest to bypass around, and I like to think that’s very much a purposeful choice.

              However, the entire thing is designed for it not to be easy to do for somebody with the technical know-how of the average gamer, plus it’s not reliably possible and there’s no way to know upfront if it will work or not when making a purchasing decision on a game in Steam.

              Meanwhile “No DRM and with downloadable Offline Installers” is literally the Unique Value Proposition of GOG as a games store - access to download offline installers is there in the games page after purchase and that installer is guaranteed to work forever and ever if you still have the hardware and OS version supported by the game.