Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do you not but games anymore then, or do you think steam is better?

  Though if you only play FOSS or self published games, that would be kinda based.

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  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m guessing by your wording that you’re aching to bash Steam, so I’ll preface this with: no corporation is ever going to get this 100% right; the world is drawn in greys, and only a Sith deals in absolutes.

    “Better” is not very useful without context. In the context of AI usage, Steam is better. In the context of GOG, their main claim about game preservation is “no DRM”, but there is an important point often missed: lots of games on Steam also do not have DRM.

    I have no issues “buying” games on Steam which have no DRM. For others, I factor the DRM into the price I’m willing to pay for access. These tend to be larger titles anyway, so I’m not terribly worried about it long term.

    Long term game preservation? More about unofficial channels than relying on yet another corporation. GOG wasn’t changing that before, and they definitely aren’t now.

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• Goatboy@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If there’s someone else doing the same work, by all means give to them instead.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    archive.org and their collections to the rescue!

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    • Goatboy@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The true GOAT.

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