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GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics

(arstechnica.com)
161 points m463 | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 06:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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drumhead ◴[14 Nov 24 08:54 UTC] No.42134302[source]▶
I think I've bought all the classics I want from GOG already. Their biggest selling point is that you own the games you buy from them it's not a licence like steam.
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mxfh ◴[14 Nov 24 10:11 UTC] No.42134705[source]▶
It's still a license, just more lenient and more customer friendly.

Would like to know what their income stream percentage is, for being an sink for third party platform game keys from Prime Gaming (vs Epic store, Steam being suspiciously absent).

Seems like the only time I visit GOG these days regularily.

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... “GOG games” or “GOG videos” respectively and when we talk about them all together they are “GOG content”.

2.1 We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a 'license') to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User...

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1. keyringlight ◴[14 Nov 24 10:55 UTC] No.42134998[source]▶
On one hand it's a language thing where people are used to using words like "buy" when they exchange money for an item/service, on the other I really wonder how many think through the implications of what would happen if they bought easily reproducible software/media as they buy a physical thing.