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Is it? The sales are often so good, and games I bought 3 or 4 PC builds ago still install and run on my new one.
Also with streak families you can share games.
But I get it, this is more about the used market.
DRM can still ruin the user experience a lot.
For a simple example, I have bought Fallout 3 on Steam, but I cannot run that version on Steam on an old Windows 7 machine by default even though its specs are enough to run it, I need to do some workarounds to launch Steam in the first place, and at that point I'd rather download it from a pirate site.
How would my experience be on the same machine with GOG? I can download it directly from the site, or if I cannot connect to it because of browser incompatibility somehow, I can save a downloaded copy to my flash drive from another computer, then transfer its files and it works.
Some old games might not implement Steam DRM and therefore work with the file transfer, but it doesnt work all the time. On GOG it always works because no DRM.
it tells you when games have drm
don’t buy those
imagine blaming steam for f3 lmao
It doesn't tell if it has Steam DRM, it does when it has a 3rd party DRM.
steam drm is steam?
if you want no drm do gog
and steam drm isn’t ring 0 or denuvo