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Does purchasing a game on GOG.com really grants ownership of the game and not a license to use it? (fedia.io)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 7 months ago* (7 children)

That’s not true at all…

Where are you getting your information from?

Why do you need an installer when the files are its own folder?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Installers deal with more than just unpacking files into a folder. There are often prerequisite shared libraries that are included in the installer that AREN'T in the game directory, which may or may not need to be installed along with the game depending on if your system already has it.

    So just double-clicking the .exe after copying the folder to a new computer is not reliable in the same way GOG's installers are.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    steam. note that i said "a game", not "a drm-free game".

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    And we’re talking about drm free games, which GoG only provides, which means it’s also drm free on Steam…. Steam provides OTHER games that of course have drm.

    Of course Steam has its own drm, I never said they didn’t. The picture also talks about this as well… did you not read it?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    we are not. you are. the starter of this comment chain noted that gog guarantees, as part of their offer, that the games you download are drm-free. steam does not. your reply to that said nothing about drm, leading us all to the conclusion that you were saying "you can download files for games on steam just like you can on gog", rather than what you were apparently saying, which was that "for the games on steam that do not have drm you can download files just like you can with all games on gog".

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