I’m trying to understand, since it’s DRM-free, can I buy it and share with many people so they can play it on their PC? Or there’s something that prevent me to do that?
Does it mean that pirating GOG games is easy as transferring to other machine?
If so, I wonder why pirate sites like FitGirl still use cracked Steam version of games, why don’t just share GOG version?
GoG actually implements something the rich tool* behind steam once said: “piracy is a customer service issue.”
Broadly speaking, folk only private games for three reasons: either the DRM limits how they can play their game, they don’t want to make such a purchase sight unseen, or they haven’t the funds to purchase the games they want.
There’s very little that will turn the third type into paying customers, but the first and second can be converted by some combination of.the straight removal of DRM and a generous return policy.
It’s also worth noting that pirates of all three groups will on occasion make a game purchase, due to a desire to support an especially liked game or studio or behavior.
I’ve re-bought games on GOG before just to have that backup DRM free copy for piece of mind, and to use for machines that will never connect to the internet :)
Same. Any game I find so good I know I’ll wanna reinstall them in 10+ years, I get on GOG even after the original purchase on Steam.
Otherwise, I pirate a backup copy or get a crack plus Steam backup my game files, just in case.
Is online only, then fuck them, I’m not touching it…