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Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. (lemmy.ca)

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[–] UndercoverUlrikHD 62 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Better than Steam I'd argue. Unlike Steam, games you buy on GOG are yours to keep forever. No DRM like steam that ~~forces you to log on after a few days offline~~. You also get better version control.

Edit: the offline limit was a bug. Offline restrictions would be dependent on the DRM solution for each individual game.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There are DRM free games on steam. If you can launch the game directly from the exe while steam is off, then the game is DRM free.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD 12 points 5 months ago

I'm aware, however it's not as transparent and Steam does not provide the same guarantees that GOG do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I don't want to have to open the game page to figure that out. Also if there was a filter I could find and choose not to see DRM games at all, that would be very cool.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

The DRM layers are added by game publishers, not by Steam, but yeah it is a little annoying that games on steam have to be launched through steam. There are some fake Steam overheads floating around to bypass that for use of running games on multiple local machines simultaneously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How long is a few days and what happens if you don't?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is no DRM on GOG. You can just download the offline installer, then install it even without an internet connection. It will never ask you to go online because it doesn't need to check anything.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I believe they meant what happens on the steam side, not the gog side.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD 8 points 5 months ago

After digging into it, it seems like the 2 week limit was a bug that has been fixed by steam. So there is no Steam enforced limit, it's up to each game's DRM to enforce restrictions. Steam can function as DRM with a simple command during upload, but it's rather basic and Valve recommends publishers to use additional DRM for more serious protection.

GOG on the other hand is DRM free as a core policy so you're guaranteed no restrictions.