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The current gaming situation right now (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Sure, but at least Steam allows you to burn backups of games to a disc. Haven't seen other platforms let you do that yet

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    There's a whole platform whose whole shit is selling you games that you can back up and keep forever. GOG is the only one that will never take your library away from you, unlike Steam who can and has before

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    not that I disagree with you, but what happens if GOG's server get shutdown for whatever reason? would that put us out of anything we didn't download?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, yeah. Not downloading your installers is a bit like buying a disc at GameStop and telling the cashier to hold on to it until you want to play it

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I suppose that's true enough. while the GOG library is all DRM free, I guess I don't really see the practical difference, since I can also play all my installed steam games offline too. don't get me wrong, I will check and purchase through GOG first, when there's better deals, but I have a decent sized library that I can't have it all downloaded, so in my use case, it's effectively the same. I can still download delisted games on steam that I've purchased, but if either steam or GOG shut down servers, I'll be outta luck

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