I appreciate people sharing their work, and criticisms of anti consumer practices in gaming. This article gets kind of rambly quick and I think distracts from whatever the main idea or message is though.
this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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My opinion? Hardcopy.
I still have CDs of old games. I can install and play the base version if they only require the code on the back of the jewel case. Some even allow private servers for multiplayer.
New ones? DRM, licensing servers, gameservers, download sources…as they disappear, so do the games because nobody can play them.
Just buy your games on GOG. No DRM
Not sure why you got downvoted, but buy and download is key to GOG games
Well, yes. It's no use just paying and not actually downloading it, for obvious reasons but also for the reasons I assume you mean, whereby once you have the files you're no longer reliant on GOG to keep them available.