This is self explanatory; to all who do not support the idea of ownership, there shall be no more funding, regardless of their game’s quality.
Advice:
buy from GOG, avoid single player games which require internet connection or 3 party launchers.
Repost from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1ugzirg/stoppayinggames/
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Steam sells you a license. You don’t own the game. You own a license to access that game from Steam.
Yes, yet they do respect that licence and customers… so far, we trust them mostly.
Once day, Steam may be gone from market, replace by another service, who knows, and our libraries be gone by turning servers down - there is a possibility. But I struggle to imagine Steam would delet a game from my purchases without refunds and without any really serious reason, like few others do.
Didn’t they have a system that makes all games DRM free if something like that happenned or somwthing like that?
Guess You mean GoG, they do offer most games as fully downloadable installer and most licences fully allows You to keep them forever, even if servers and services of Gog goes down. Not all of them, as they also offer games with separate launchers and stuff. Some games may be online only, like mmo genre, not much to do here, even if You manage to get all files stored. There’s always chance publisher takes the game off the store, or there may be some legal issues. Gog still trying to provide fully offline installers as much as possible, or even provide own, (semi) unofficial patches to old games to make them run smoothly on new operating systems (not intended to by original devs).
Much awesome, even if cannot say all games DRM free.
No, I know GOG provides plenty of DRM-free games, what I meant is, I remember something about Steam having a system to make games DRM-free in case they went under or something. Maybe it was something different or even misinformation, though.
Oh, surely GoG have lots and lots of drm-free games. It is big part of store, mentioned in ads and many interviews. They actively providing more and more drm-free, probably even silently cheer up SKG (even if avoiding saying this loud).
My point was, not every single game on Gog store is drm-free.
That’s how all software, except Free Software, works. Most media as well (except copyleft).
The game is downloaded and installed on your machine.
It also is from the other vendors, other wise you could not play offline games aside from all games being very slow probs. They have DRM, you cannot play most games without a launcher (there are some games, most of my steam library is mostly DRM free but maybe cuz they were indie games) unless you crack it.
And requires authentication via Steam to launch. No steam, no game.
At least not unless third parties come up with a workaround.
There are many DRM free games on Steam that don’t require the Steam client to run once downloaded
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw
Watch, learn.