• @lud@lemm.ee
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    41 month ago

    I would be surprised if it even was possible for them to change so that the games are bought. I suspect that would be quite complicated legally.

    • @CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world
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      -41 month ago

      It’s literally in the title that GOG does exactly that. Why would Steam’s hands be legally tied if GOG’s aren’t?

      • @lud@lemm.ee
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        111 month ago

        No, that isn’t what GOG is doing.

        GOG is still only licencing games to you. They do offer you the opportunity to download an offline installer though.

        • @kshade@lemmy.world
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          31 month ago

          As far as I know there is no mandatory DRM on Steam either, so if a publisher wants to they can just make their game be portable and not require Steam to even be installed. Pretty sure all the re-releases that use DOSBox or ScummVM are like this, for example.

          • @lud@lemm.ee
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            1 month ago

            Yeah there are loads of DRM free games on steam (mostly indies of course). Steam just offers a very basic (and easily bypassable if you know how) DRM to devs/publishers but they absolutely don’t need to use it.