• DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      Wouldn’t even matter anyway. If either service dies the games are gone unless you go through the hassle of manually backing up every single one - which you can do with the majority of games on Steam too.

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        11 months ago

        No, you can’t.

        And that’s a big “unless”. I actually do have a stored backup of my GOG library installers (of the ones where I don’t own a physical copy, anyway). GOG could disappear into thin air tomorrow and I would lose zero access. Not so with Steam.

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      11 months ago

      That’s a technicality that has applied to all media formats for decades. You know what I am talking about colloquially.

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        “You know what I am talking about colloquially”

        I must not, because I see zero difference between Steam and GoG in this regard other than the fact that Steam provides a bunch of side services that GoG does not. Otherwise they’re both just selling you a revokable license to play a game.