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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)

submitted 1 month ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The reason they hold most of the market share is not because of bad business practices it's because the opposite. People use their service cause it's the best.

I have physical copies of PC games that require a Steam Account.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Which is why you don't have physical copies of those games - you bought a steam key, exactly like you could have done digitally from humblebundle of greenmangaming or myriad of other stores, this one just had it printed on a piece of paper instead of sending you an email.

A Steam key Valve didn't get a cut from, btw.

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

So all those files on the disc I had to install were for something else then?

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Helped you (and Valve) to save some bandwidth. But yes. If it requires a Steam account to play, you bought a license allowing you to access a game using Steam, and not an actual game you own.