They don’t. Buy on gog.

like you have no choice but to use Epic… which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

Literally anything besides not getting that game?

Same here, but I did occasionally get a similar full screen reminding me of that fact and urging me to buy a new PC. I installed Mint instead.

People keep saying “Linux is user friendly enough these days for even non techy people” and I’m sorry but it’s totally Not.

I guess people who say that think of the average non techy user as someone like me: I don’t really know how this works under the hood, but I do troubleshoot my own stuff, am willing and able to search for help and apply advice on my own, try different things, and hopefully realize when that advice starts to sound fishy.

The thing is, that’s not the average non-techy user. That’s already “dabbling in tech”.

The average non techy user is Homer going “oh, a talking moose on the Internet wants my credit card number? Sounds fair.”

The same is true for windows though. I have to help my dad with some minor thing at least once a month.

Often, they’ve forgotten the fucking password, if you’ve made it so they don’t have to put a password in when they log in

The second my father asks me about this is when I revoke his computer privileges.

So we are giving participation awards?

Huh?

Are you blaming them for not preserving things more than actual physical objects that you bought are preserved in your house? The whole root of the matter was people complaining about companies obsoleting or taking away games they paid for. What GOG is doing counters just that. It is now once again in your hands and your hands only to preserve and maintain your property, and if the data gets corrupted, you only have time, physics and yourself to blame.

I couldn’t care less about anybody creating some kind of eternal video game archive for archaeologists of the post apocalyptic world to find. I care about if I will still be able to play the games I paid money for in 30 years, provided I keep the data and hardware. How would that last part be the store’s responsibility?

If you don’t download it, then they can remove it and it’ll be gone, regardless of if you purchased it already.

Yes, if you don’t take possession of the goods you paid for, you are in fact not in possession of the goods you paid for.

Sony once put a root kit on their CDs

Ok. In theory they could have put in a kill switch. I’m choosing to trust they didn’t.

The core of. ©RPGs that makes them special is the feeling that you decide what’s going to happen or at least that your choices have an effect on the world. That’s the core appeal of TTRPGs and it doesn’t change for video games.

Since the installers are DRM free, they physically cannot. Save for breaking into your home and destroying your hard drives.

A “DRM-Free” game is only as preserved as the hard drive space you dedicate to it.

You mean, just like any pre digital purchasing game that you own on disks? Or similar to any physical object you ever bought (hard drive space / shelf space), for that matter?

They’re preserving it as much as they’re able to without being a government funded museum.

Become unavailable on non-private messengers. Explain your reasons if asked, but stay stubborn. (And yes, it will turn out that a subset of people you know don’t give a shit about staying in contact with you.)

Thinking about Sins of a Solar Empire 2. Any opinions?

Well intentioned my ass. If I want to cheat in my single player game it’s my damn right. They just want to make sure you buy their cheats (microtransaction time savers) instead of making your own for free.