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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Should they continue selling licenses they don't have the rights to?

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh course not, but the fact this is an outcome for games that are only 6 years old rather flies in the face of their mandate.

[–] Focal@pawb.social 7 points 3 days ago

Their mandate is that they're selling the games with a DRM free installer. If it's delisted, you can still install that game DRM free on anything else as long as you have the files.

Get a USB stick with a cool design, put the installer on it, yeet it in a video game box, throw some box art on it, and you basically have the physical game.

If it feels like the physical game is something else entirely, but I think their mandate is being lived up to just fine :)

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 3 days ago

It is, in fact, because the games are only 6 years old. The publisher thinks they're losing money by selling on gog. And, for people who have already purchased the game on gog, they can still access the downloads.