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Message: [QUOTE="NoctemDead, post: 58300, member: 148642"] How is it not a free service? GoG accounts are free. You make one, you buy the game, you download the offline installer or the full game. If you choose NOT to download all that you paid for at the time of purchase, but instead to leave it in your digital library, you are choosing to trust continued access to the (once again, free) service that GOG provides in hosting that as an online storefront. Which is, again, a service that you don't get access to if you go to eBay and buy Dino Crisis for PS1. Decoupling the client, providing installers, and being DRM-Free IS the difference between GOG and Steam - that and the active work GOG does on seeking out games with deprecated accessibility and making them commercially available [I]with[/I] additional work to make them the best possible experience on modern machines. You are making the argument that digital products are nearly impossible to actually own, unless maybe you're a believer in blockchain technology or something. I personally feel much more in ownership of games that I have stored on even a burned CD than I do a "token" tied to a ledger which would permit me to resell it. Maybe that is just a fundamental difference of opinion but that is the only way I can conceptualize both digital ownership and freedom of resale. And I do not believe gamers would accept that (at least in this point in time) This would be [I]great[/I]. I would love for this to be available, as well as nice cases and gloss printed manuals. I'd be all for it. But I don't think it's the world we're living in right now. Remember that this has to be done either as a taxpayer (or philanthropist)-funded public good, or a viable business platform. There are some attempts at providing services like these but they are all relatively small scale and limited in the amount of games they can actually bring compared to a digital platform. And they are prone to intentional limited runs, scarcity and scalping (e.g. $150 Persona physical games on Switch) I'm not sure there's much further to take this discussion except to say I am glad that GOG is pursuing cases like this and will continue supporting them and choosing to buy my games there vs. Steam when I have the option [/QUOTE]

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