Technically, you still don’t own it. You have a licence that they can revoke at will. They just can’t enforce it.
Comment on PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 year agoIn the case of pc platforms like GOG, and itchio, if you get a drm free version of a title, theres nothing the company can do to both stop you from storing it on an external storage (or multiple) if you wanted. They wouldnt be able to revoke it if its a single player game.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
What makes you say so?
GoG about page explicitly talks about owning, and terms even explicitly mention advance notification so you can download Dr free versions if they will ever become unavailable.
GoG terms do not qualify purchases as temporary access licenses - only to the degree of servicing downloads as long as possible and without other limitation.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You know that’s the exception to the general trend though right? GoG has good terms, most others do not.
Physical media still is a better way to go than digital whenever possible.
Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
Commenter specifically talked about gog and itch. Other commenter them replied you shouldn’t own it.
The content chain specifically moved away from “general trend” talking about the niche.
Syrc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Works for a lot of Steam games too.