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GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released'
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Good on GoG and I do genuinely love most of what they have done.
But the "buy here and you own it" bullshit is a real laugh. It is still just a license that can be revoked at any point. And the "just download it and have it forever" is untenable for larger libraries and... the French Monk Debacle already demonstrated why.
For those not aware, in the first year or so of gog's existence, they pretended they were shutting down the website and told everyone they had like 48 hours to download everything. People lost their shit, hug of death, etc. CDP immediately apologized and then put a "fun" character in The Witcher 2 that referenced that.
But... that is the reality. If the site goes down, you are only getting a fraction of your library, if that. And GoG have always been horrible about letting you know when a game is updated if you use the standalone installers. So, regardless, you are pirating shit when the site goes down. Same as Steam.
There are many tools to download all your games (I've even created one), you can download your games regularly. Sure, you need the space for it, but you need space for everything you own, be it physical or digital.