GOG.com on Game Ownership

GOG.com had some fun at the expense of rival store Steam in a posting on X following the news that Valve has a new checkout warning reinforcing that licensed games on Steam are not owned. All games sold on GOG are DRM-free, and cannot be revoked, resulting in a little pwnership on ownership:
Since checkout banners are trending, we're thinking of putting one up ourselves. Thoughts on this one?

A purchase of a digital product on GOG grants you its Offline Installers, which cannot be taken away from you.
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Oct 12, 2024, 10:52
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GoG doesn't really have room to talk. With the wording of their post, just because you have access to their offline installers doesn't mean those installer wouldn't have some way of blocking you otherwise. Such as you go to install a game and it says you can't because your license was revoked.

The whole thing sucks honestly. I was so pissed off when I found out that I HAD to have Steam in order to play my physical copy of Skyrim that I almost returned the game. I was avoiding getting a Steam account for this very reason and now here we are.
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