GOG sells you an actual lifetime ownership license. The publisher cannot remove the game from your library once you buy it.

No they do not. They neither have ownership of the games, nor can they sell that ownership to you. You are licensed to use the games, and they are authorised to sell that licence to you. They reserve the right to remove all the games from your library.

We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a 'license') to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog

They say it right at the bottom of that paragraph and elaborate further down. It's for personal use, and if required, like if you're caught reselling your copy, they can of course deny further access. But a Publisher can't just revoke your license "just because" or if they're shutting down the game.

Also they're referring to your GOG library, and nothing short of sending law enforcement to confiscate your hardware can deny you access to any games you've already downloaded. Once they're on your computer, and if they're DRM-free, it's yours to keep.

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GOG also only sells you a licence to play it - that's how software works. It's exactly the same if you buy a physical copy, for that matter.

GOG sells you an actual lifetime ownership license. The publisher cannot remove the game from your library once you buy it. https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/gog-reminds-everyone-why-they-should-buy-games-there-and-not-steam-or-epic-games [External Link]

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@poiuz I'm sorry I guess your memory is rather hazy regarding how much time, money, and effort Valve have put into Linux improvements as a whole. This is from just over 2 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/zopqs3/valve_is_paying_100_opensource_developers_to_work/ [External Link]

Valve is Paying 100+ Open-Source Developers to work on Linux Technologies

See except for the recent The Verge interview with Valve.

Griffais says the company is also directly paying more than 100 open-source developers to work on the Proton compatibility layer, the Mesa graphics driver, and Vulkan, among other tasks like Steam for Linux and Chromebooks.

This is how Linux gaming has been able to narrow the gap with Windows by investing millions of dollars a year in improvements.

https://www.theverge.com/23499215/valve-steam-deck-interview-late-2022 [External Link]

The addition of Proton is in fact so significant that before Valve releasing it, you had to run the entire Steam application with WINE if you wanted to play Windows games with any decent reliability. Times were wild.

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@finaldest If that is true, why would you choose Epic over GOG, since GOG sell games that let you own it for life? They both have open source launchers, they both have popular storefronts, but Epic offers the same licensing as Steam where you don't actually own the game just a license to play it.

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The time limit in these Lethal Company-esque games always bugs me. I want to explore and have some fun with the rounds, but if I only have 10 minutes it just feels like a mad dash with extra work. At least give us configurable times up to an hour.

I'm pleased to see this one left that constraint out.

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Too late imo, game's long been dead.

Seems like it very recently got a big-bump because of the crazy discount, but I think they should've made it F2P like a year ago.

It seems like the sale is helping though, at least temporarily. Player count is up to 550 600 at this moment, which is over 1/3rd of its all-time peak of 1,608 in January 2021.

https://steamdb.info/app/753650/charts/#max [External Link]

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why does a purely PvE game with no player-to-player economy need anti-cheat at all??

Leaderboard rankings and achievements are often the excuses used.

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This is a marvelous way to kill downtime at work! I need to check it out

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Unless Linux players accounted for more than a single digit percentage of their total playerbase, I find it impossible to consider it a "meaningful reduction". Let's assume 1-in-5 Linux players were cheating, if we had 10% of the total playerbase that's only a reduction of 2% of players total. But as scaine mentioned they're down from 450k to 130k daily average, far greater than 2%.

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