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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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[–] 12 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Yes. You can download the installers and patches. Put them on a hard-drive, shut down your computer, put the hard drive into another computer and install the game without ever connecting to the internet if you have wine on your system.

It's yours.

I just shared all my GOG games with my family and they could install the games without a hitch. They could import it to Steam and Heroic and play it from there. Can't do that with Steam.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    This is what I do too. The first thing I do after buying from GoG is to download the installers, both Windows and Linux. So I don't have to download again and again every time I install. I can carry a copy around and install it on an offline machine too. I also share my games with my family, just like sharing discs in the old time. If some of them like one of the games, they'll buy it again themselves. If this is not owning games in practice, I don't know what is.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Did you ever manage to get steam to let you import a gog game and install mods from steam's modding community?

    Stellaris mods are essentially only on steam, and my "buy from GOG whenever possible" rule means I have a gog copy instead of a steam one. And non-steam downloading of steam mods is a PITA.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    I just shared all my GOG games with my family and they could install the games without a hitch. They could import it to Steam and Heroic and play it from there. Can’t do that with Steam.

    Steam tries to obstruct you from doing it, but Federal law gives you the right. Quit spreading misinformation about Steam having the power to override your property rights, because it doesn't.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    What is allowed to do and what it does differ. Stop being so blind.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    And that makes it injustice that needs to be resisted!

    What the fuck is wrong with you, that you just want to accept the enemy's usurpation of your rights?

    The notion that corporations get to unilaterally change the law to redefine what "buying" and "ownership" mean is some Stockholm syndrome, late-stage-capitalist, ass-backwards insanity. Snap the fuck out of it!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    What Federation is being Federal to you? If it's the USA, overriding your property rights was the whole purpose of the DMCA.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Even accepting the argument that a tyrannical law invalidates rights rather than violating them (which I don't, BTW), the DMCA only applies to things that are DRM'd, not everything on Steam.

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