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.
I honestly never used open voice chats in games, but I do miss Barrens chat.
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.)
Nah. Corporations aren’t all knowing godlike beings. They are run by stupid people who make mistakes, just like us.
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.
Reactor online
Sensors online
Weapons online
All systems nominal
It’s not useless. It will enable MS to build the walled garden they want, where you are forced to use the software they permit you to and nothing else.
We are the Borg.
I’m itching for the co-op update to do a second play through with my gf.
Tried it on the Deck in TV mode, but the frame rates dropped so much during boss fights / class strikes I went back to finishing it on PC. I guess on the small screen I could have dropped the settings further, but on TV that was really hard on the eyes. Which is sad, as I mainly got the deck as a “switch but for pc games”. Guess it’ll mostly only work for pixel art games etc. for me.
That doesn’t mean all fact checks are bullshit, just that fact checkers are people with jobs and opinions too.
Wing Commander 1-4, space epics of my childhood.
That means it’s working.
Possibly. But some people really need it spelled out.
No violence
No stealing
No billionaires
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?