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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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[-] chameleon@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

For current exports, it's some custom .csm/.csd file combo. Not sure if there's any tools for working with it, seems like it'd be more annoying than just using a normal archive format either way.

[-] ouch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That's bad. I guess if I want to back up my Steam games, it's going to be tarballs.

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