Comment on SKG Publisher Warning — browser tool that warns you when a publisher kills games
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago Yeah? The majority of the IPs of games sold on GOG are still owned by someone that isn’t CDPR and they could cancel whatever agreement they had to sell their stuff on GOG. Seems highly unlikely tho, since almost none of them cost anyone anything to keep selling as they don’t do anything online or, if they do, is P2P stuff or dedicated servers the players themselves run. The games that get killed generally have some kind of always online component and the publishers simply don’t want to pay for the servers anymore, nor do they want to spend time retrofitting them to not need those servers to be played.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I have bought a game on gog, how can the publisher revoke that game from me now that I have it?
Not aware of any games on gog that are always online
They couldn’t take it away from you but they could tell GOG to stop selling and distributing it, which would mean you’d need to have it backed up already or you won’t be able to obtain the offline installer again from GOG.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
So the same thing with physical, the shop could be told to stop selling and distributing it.
Also don’t gog usually only stop sales rather than distribution from existing purchases?
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 2 days ago
Agreed on stopping sales but doubt the second. Once you have it in library, you should be able to download it at anytime. Even Steam does it so GOG should also do it given their stance right?
Technically, Steam could also have this happen if the rights holders demand they stop distributing their game entirely, unless they have a clause in their specific contracts to let Valve keep giving it out to people who bought it forever.