• BolexForSoup@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    That’s a technicality that has applied to all media formats for decades. You know what I am talking about colloquially.

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      11 months ago

      “You know what I am talking about colloquially”

      I must not, because I see zero difference between Steam and GoG in this regard other than the fact that Steam provides a bunch of side services that GoG does not. Otherwise they’re both just selling you a revokable license to play a game.

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              11 months ago

              When people say “I own the game” these days they are generally saying there is no DRM or other factor preventing their passing it around for whatever reason

              That’s why I said:

              If it’s actual ownership instead of availability

              The context is that the person I was responding to said they use GOG because they ‘own’ the game, in response to someone else saying that there are games on Steam with zero DRM that you can also buy.

              Frankly, with the ‘availability’ argument you also don’t need Steam to play them and could copy them over to a PC that’s never had Steam installed and play them as well.