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GOG basically acknowledges piracy in a meme (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago by mambabasa@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 388 points 3 months ago

DRM-free doesn't mean piracy. GOGs whole business model is built around selling games DRM free. I don't pirate but I do use GOG where possible as I hate DRM - it punishes and inconveniences legitimate users for piracy and doesn't even solve the problem. DRM is just an expensive waste of money for everyone involved.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 115 points 3 months ago

Make the pay option less shitty than pirating. That’s all it takes.

[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

Gaben taught you well

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Half-Life Free confirmed!

[-] Virulent@reddthat.com 19 points 3 months ago

The drm-free marketing that gog does has been successful, but it is just marketing. While It's true that games sold on gog are drm-free, every game sold on gog that I've looked into is also drm-free on steam. The only real benefit is that the gog installers are more convenient for backups than using a steam back up tool.

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 56 points 3 months ago

Not saying you're wrong, but there's a lot of peace of mind in knowing everything on the platform is drm free, rather than having to do some research. So it is marketing, but it's also a promise of curation so to speak.

[-] Maven@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago

GOG is also a filter too. Everything in the whole store you know is DRM free when with other stores you have to check each game individually.

Steam is also a form of DRM in most cases though either way.

[-] Black616Angel@feddit.de 9 points 3 months ago

How would you play a DRM-free game bought through steam without steam? (Genuine question)

[-] Virulent@reddthat.com 14 points 3 months ago

You just run the executable

[-] leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

So it's possible to download the installer through steam, store it somewhere and ten years later I can just start the installer without having steam on my system?

Asking out of curiosity, I don't use steam, I never thought that would be possible?

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 12 points 3 months ago

You can copy the entire game folder and run it that way, as long as the game is actually DRM free it should work just fine.

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[-] lud@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Steam isn't DRM. They offer a (very weak and basic) DRM for free for developers to use but they don't have too.

For a lot of games you can just install them using steam and then uninstall steam and the games will continue to work.

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[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

it punishes and inconveniences legitimate users for piracy and doesn't even solve the problem.

IDK about that, the only person who can crack denuvo is empress and she doesn't crack all games, so I guess it atleast reduces piracy for a while. I agree however that DRM shouldn't exist.

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago

Enshitification of DRM with denuvo going subscription model has become an unexpected ally in DRM getting removed even if it doesn't get cracked.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, from the leaked Crytek contract it revealed that devs have to pay again every year or remove it, which means Sega is extremely hostile since they still pay for denuvo on years old games like Persona 5 Royal.

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[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 236 points 3 months ago

how is this acknowledging piracy ?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 160 points 3 months ago

I guess they don't realize GOG is DRM free as part of their business model?

Probably because they think DRM=anti pirate and not "You don't actually own this"

[-] Ethalis@jlai.lu 71 points 3 months ago

Selling only DRM-free games has always be GOG's whole thing (well, that and selling oldies compatible with modern OS), it's weird that this meme specifically would be considered "aknowledging piracy"

[-] neoman4426@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago

Like, maybe if the final bit was saying the friends without accounts did like it there might be something there, but simply acknowledging DRM free I'm not seeing it

[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz 46 points 3 months ago

Everything nowadays that attempts to give back a little autonomy or freedom to the user is called piracy.

As long as an app could theoretically be used for piracy, even if it was made to circumvent toxic behavior of users' bought and paid for products, then it must be properly labelled as piracy and taken down.

I'll better stop before this becomes a rant.

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[-] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 138 points 3 months ago

OP doesn't understand the difference between piracy and drm-free.

But hey, looks like the advertising is working on you to promote GOG so good on them for a successful tweet.

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[-] beatle@aussie.zone 91 points 3 months ago

Good guy GOG wants you to actually own your own games, forever.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 72 points 3 months ago

Drm-free isn’t piracy

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 55 points 3 months ago

ALL ANTI-CHEAT IS SPYWARE.

ALL DRM IS THEFT.

[-] xor@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago

*malware
... also a violation of the CFAA

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[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 44 points 3 months ago

Meme doesn't make sense in this context, but do love me some GOG.

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[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 months ago

I own and buy games from GOG. Especially if its a game i like. That way its actually mine. I hope they never change.

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[-] summerof69@lemm.ee 41 points 3 months ago

No, it does not.

[-] anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

GOG is always my first choice to buy games.
It's a bit frustrating that you have to dive into the forum and check whether the developers actually maintain their GOG release properly before buying though.

[-] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

The way I see it, if you've bought a game from GOG you've already paid, so no one can truthfully say in good faith that subsequently grabbing a cracked version of the Steam release is a lost sale.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I love GOG for not having DRM.

It makes pirating shit I want to check out before I buy way easier and safer because I just need to find the GOG installer instead of some dubious crack.

Thanks, GOG, for giving me the ability to demo games to see if they are actually worth the price. 👍

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[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

No.

[-] Zetgeist117@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

if i own a piece of software i should have the right to put that software on a usb and lend it to a friend for the weekend or someshit

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago

Gog tries but its only drm free till its not.

Looking at you Cult of the lamb!

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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago

I like GoG because I can download an executable and load it into wine, which is less easy with steam for Mac. Though they make that harder these days than they used to.

I know the Mac isn’t ideal for gaming but I don’t want to buy a whole other computer and have to deal with KVM and monitor switching just to play games that were released in 2004.

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