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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because I can download and save installers for GOG games and install them without needing to connect to GOG at all. It's more akin to buying physical media than it is to Steam or other storefronts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You still need your gog account to download games though. And they have multiplayer games anyways.

It's far better that it applies to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You still need your gog account to download games though.

I need an account to make the purchase and download, but I can then delete my account and keep the installers on a hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And you can delete steam and still play the games on your computer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

GOG guarantees that every game is DRM free and can be offline. Steam makes no such guarantees, and most games there will ship with some form of DRM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No most games do not have drm. You can play most games on steam without launching steam.

I don't even understand why you guys are trying to argue. This new law should absolutely include every game store on the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Out of the non-free games 2/6 platinum games have DRM. 8/9 gold games have drm. And that's ignoring DRM via being live service game without support for self hosting server (a big portion if you also check the silver games).

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BestOf2023?tab=1

Disclaimer, I used perplexity.ai to ask if each individual game included drm or not. Ignoring DRM that is one time verification and support offline play.

This new law should absolutely include every game store on the Internet.

If you buy a game on GOG, you can download the game and put it on 100 USB sticks and sell each one of them with a fully working copy for perpetuity. You buy the game on GOG. Just because the shop may go down doesn't mean you lose your product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What are platinum and gold games?

Almost all of the games in my library can be played without steam, except for the online games obviously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The steam link should explain it, it's the biggest games on steam in terms of revenue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Obviously multiplayer games are not going to be able to be played without DRM.

I'm tired of repeating myself. Have a good weekend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did you miss the part where I said I mostly excluded them?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I missed the part where I cared about this conversation anymore. Enjoy your weekend!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

> claims most steam games are drm free

> shown that most games that people play aren't drm free

I missed the part where I cared about this conversation anymore. Enjoy your weekend!

Alright 🙄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But there's no installer, so I can't reinstall it on another device. With GOG I have an installer just like I'd have with physical media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It doesn't matter. GoG should still be held responsible to the law. Every game store should be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You dont need an account to launch the game, so you own it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Same with steam. You don't need steam to play most of the games you buy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's talking about games that require an always on connection. You can save the installer for games like that, but the game still won't work if it can't phone home.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm well aware — that's the whole point of DRM-free games.