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Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I'm not going to use their game manager, then why would I buy the game from them instead of just buying it directly from the game studio? I guess because game studios rarely distribute their own games anymore?

[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly, the game publishers and distributors are often not the developers themselves. Only one to distribute direct in recent memory was World Of Goo 2, and even that was sold primarily through the Epic store.

[–] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Tarkov is only direct to my knowledge