If your making your own, that's what M-Disc's are for, they can in theory last up to 1000 years but in practice say 100.clearly never heard of disk rot
(gog games are meant to be downloaded copied and stored offline)
If your making your own, that's what M-Disc's are for, they can in theory last up to 1000 years but in practice say 100.clearly never heard of disk rot
(gog games are meant to be downloaded copied and stored offline)
Let's not have a conflict in this simple topic.yeah so what´s your argument ?? Can stand people that like physical media or something like what´s you issue what´s your beef. Question was asked gog or steam or epic I said cd and dvd so what´s your point?
yea I have some M-Discs, I wouldn't bet my life on them tho idk how much of their claims is actually trustable seem like opaque marketing mostly (and apparently they changed the way m-discs are made nowadays, some says that every blu ray is as durable as m-disc cause it's inorganic or something)If your making your own, that's what M-Disc's are for, they can in theory last up to 1000 years but in practice say 100.
i wasn't picking up a fight just saying stuff the way i usually do then you got mad about itThink first talk second. I know im an Asshole and people here dislike me but why pick pointless fights and arguments ?
That's just marketing you should read the disclaimer in fine prints. If you need to store your stuff in a lead safe hermetically sealed 20 meters below ground, it's not proper archive.If your making your own, that's what M-Disc's are for, they can in theory last up to 1000 years but in practice say 100.
Well to be fair, that's true of all archival technology that's digital, since none of it is made to last forever, when we get diamond recording tools maybe then but currently that's just the way it is.That's just marketing you should read the disclaimer in fine prints. If you need to store your stuff in a lead safe hermetically sealed 20 meters below ground, it's not proper archive.
As of now with state of the art archival technologies, no one can guarantee data integrity for more than 20 years. Keyword here is "guarantee", as in "contractual obligation". That means weekly full backups on LTO tapes or the likes and redundant systems to read them.Well to be fair, that's true of all archival technology that's digital, since none of it is made to last forever, when we get diamond recording tools maybe then but currently that's just the way it is.
Right now if you want to be extra safe i always have 3 archived copies, 1 physical, one on my main system and 1 on a external HDD (and it must be HDD, ssd's can lose data due to electron failure).
I hold my scepticism due to it's owner and surrounding circumstances. Though I could just sum it up with;EGS merits its existence upon freebies, really. Despite all gaming outlets essentially operating on the same legal bases, GoG feels more end user friendly on the whole.
I mean i agree, but unless your gonna go full piracy there's not really a better way to get modern games than gog if they get them.I hold my scepticism due to it's owner and surrounding circumstances. Though I could just sum it up with;
If you're not paying for a product, then you are the product.
Well, the only thing you can't find elsewhere are the free games... Achievements and mod support? Both steam and gog have them already, and based on catalogue, customer service and prices, I'd say GOG mops the floor with Epic. Don't tryna argue here, just making clear my position for the 4rt time cuz I love gog lmaoI will always support GOG because the games are DRM-free, they adapt old games to modern Windows, you can download a copy of the purchased game to your hard drive and GOG is a Polish platform
But Epic is a great place to be when it comes to free games and is slowly evolving in terms of its user interface and its capabilities. They've already got archivments, once they add mod support it'll be perfect.
'You can backup your games'A reminder, while GoG is superior in regards to not requiring a client and you can backup your games, you are still only purchasing a license. You have no rights and your game can be removed from your library, or you can be banned at any time, for pretty much any reason.
'You can backup your games'
Why are you saying that like it doesn't leave any other system light years behind?
yea pretty fun seeing people say that we "can't" resell gog games that we're only buying a "license" and stuff on a piracy websiteNgl, seems pretty ironic that people are arguing about GOG vs Epic on the CDRomance forum. You'd never see a thread about "which ROM site is your fav" in the Steam discussions. XD
You can technically do backups of anything physical.'You can backup your games'
Why are you saying that like it doesn't leave any other system light years behind?
We're not really talking about physical media thoughYou can technically do backups of anything physical.
Physical media would definitely be preferable, but we're like 15 years out of that being a thing broBecause you still can't sell/buy copies second hand, you don't own it, and if copyright is anything to go buy, you can't sell a burned copy either (and aren't suppose to share or loan either); Unless those $200,000 fine warnings at the beginning of VHS and DVD's are anything to go by, or the MIAA or MPAA (and Nintendo) lawsuits are anything to go by.
You literally have a receipt, and that is in the form of an email and a line in a database somewhere. They can ban you and deny you access to your account, and if they decide to go Poof because CDPR goes bankrupt or they decide they aren't making enough money, you got a wad of emails that say you once put money into a system with no guarantees of your ownership of diddly squat.
I'll repeat. 'YOU PAID FOR A LICENSE' (aka access). To us we buy games, not licenses. But that's not how the system sees it. And the moment you disagree with the updated terms or reality hits, you won't like it. Better hope you have everything downloaded that you actually care about.
This is still in the vein of 'You will own nothing, and you will be happy'. Just because they unshackle one of your limbs doesn't remove the shackle around your neck in this case. I suggest refusing to put anything into the system until they fix the ownership rights and the system. Otherwise there's only disappointment.
No i'm not talking owning the IP/Game which cost millions to develop; I just talking the instance of the game in which you could trade to someone if it were say a physical book or disc.