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, 23:24
Prez
 
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Oct 12, 2024, 23:24
 Prez
 
WannaLogAlready wrote on Oct 12, 2024, 16:35:
Thanks Prez, the staggering amount of games you own makes your comment the most relevant

I would just advise people that they be aware that no matter what you do, there are some games that you will never own no matter what steps you take. If a game is online only with no private server options, or a live service, there is nothing that you or anyone can do to archive it once the central server is shut off by the company that owns it. People who bought the physical copy of "The Crew" were still left with a disc that was worth nothing - the game cannot be played ever again because Ubisoft shut it down with no option for you to run any part of it yourself. Any live service that isn't patched at end of life to run locally (which is extremely rare but does happen, as it did with Redfall recently) is dead and gone forever. In those cases you do indeed own nothing because of the company's arbitrary decision to deprive you of ownership.
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