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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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[-] lud@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Because you are still only licensed the game

[-] kshade@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 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.