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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' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No, that isn't what GOG is doing.

GOG is still only licencing games to you. They do offer you the opportunity to download an offline installer though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How is having an offline installer that can't be taken away, not the same thing as owning?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Because you are still only licensed the game

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As far as I know there is no mandatory DRM on Steam either, so if a publisher wants to they can just make their game be portable and not require Steam to even be installed. Pretty sure all the re-releases that use DOSBox or ScummVM are like this, for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah there are loads of DRM free games on steam (mostly indies of course). Steam just offers a very basic (and easily bypassable if you know how) DRM to devs/publishers but they absolutely don't need to use it.