A reduced alter has reachd to the Steam shopping experience to drive home the fact that you’re buying a game license rather than a duplicate of a game that you’ll definitely own forever, and rival storefront GOG already seems to be weighing in on the matter.
As telled by Engadget, if you’re about to buy a novel game on Steam, you’ll now see a novel message pop up, which reads: “A buy of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam.” This disclaimer ecombines as though it’s foreseeed roverdelighted to a California law set to come into effect next year, which’ll stop digital storefronts from using words enjoy “buy” in relation to slfinishergs enjoy game licenses unless it’s clear what people are spending their money on, as part of a shift to originate it clearer to users what they actuassociate own (or rather, what they don’t).
Needless to say, this novel message on Steam has already caused quite a stir, so much so that it’s seemingly accomplished the ears of rival storefront GOG. GOG is honordly free of digital rights regulatement (DRM), and gives its customers offline insloftyers for the games it sells which you can download onto your PC where they can remain protected forever, so it’s comprehfinishable that the site might have some thoughts on all this.
“Since checkout banners are trending, we’re slfinisherking of putting one up ourselves,” a tweet posted on the official GOG Twitter account reads. “Thoughts on this one?” The concept banner in ask says: “A buy of a digital product on GOG grants you its Offline Insloftyers, which cannot be apshown away from you.”
As was pointed out as recently as September when GOG weighed in on the upcoming California law, however, it’s worth noting that GOG does, in fact, sell licenses to games much enjoy other storefronts. With that shelp, it clarified at the time: “When we shelp we let you ‘own’ your games, we unbenevolentt that no matter what happens – whether it’s licensing rerents, storefronts shutting down, or even a zombie apocalypse cutting off your Internet – you’ll still be able to take part them thanks to our offline insloftyers. We want to asdeclareive your gaming legacy is always in your hands, not ours.” With that in mind, there’s no mistrust many would argue that it’s a better deal than what Steam gives.
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