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GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” (gameworldobserver.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

GoG Vault would disagree with you on that.

They are free to disagree on laws but they are still bound by them.

You can download the full installers and keep them, nobody can take them away or disable it remotely

That's true but if your license is revoked, you're illegally in possession of the game assets.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's not how it works but hey, you do you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It 100% is how it works. Read that EULA next time you install one of those games via the installer you downloaded from gog.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah & we still get to keep the installers, but hey I seriously do get your point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It’s less clear than you say.

In principle the First-sale doctrine should apply but it has not caught up with reality yet.