Honestly I wouldn’t be shocked if there was some “remote kill” built into those local installers. For all you know it might delete itself on a particular date.
Comment on Steam now explicitly states you're not buying the game, just a license
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
At this point, unless you can put it on a thumb drive and run it on any computer you meet without Internet connection…
You don’t own it.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 week ago
btw that’s the case with most steam games. if it doesn’t have DRM, all you need is the goldberg emu dll and done.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Gog is pretty good although they mostly have older games and small titles. I don’t like there launcher as it is privacy invasive.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Luckily you don’t need to use their launcher. Just download and run the installer for the game.