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The consumer movement to stop game publishers from intentionally destroying older games with kill switches.
The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.
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I own my GOG games though. Factorio, which I got straight from WUBE, I also own.
You own them the same way you own Steam Games without DRM. If you keep a backup of them you'll always have them but if the store goes away or terminates the files you won't be able to re-download it from them.
So the same as physical games then, if you lose your copy its gone. But its much easier to backup and have multiple.
You really aren’t selling physical media with DRM to me, and they always seem to have DRM. I could make 20 copies on bluray if I wanted to with my games, much harder with your physical ones.
I understand there are different levels to the word "own".
Own them as in "I can play them even if that store is unavailable in the future" is one level.
Own them as in "I can trade/give them to others when I don't want them any more" is another.
One is not better than the other, and they're not mutually exclusive. But physical gives you both of them. Digital doesn't. Or not yet at least.
Digital is better then surely? I can give it to you and still have my original.
Ah, the good old days.
You don't own games on gog, you just have a offline DRM free installer
If you want to go down the technicality of owning that much the same applies to physical media for games.
I could copy my installer to a DVD and at that point it doesn't really make a difference, oh look its physical now.