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GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” (gameworldobserver.com)
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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On most games yes, like I said before I've copied games from my computer to others to play in lan to convince friends to buy a game.

Then there are badly implemented games, where you need to either delete the steam library from the game folder or replace it with an open implementation.

And the rest are the ones that have DRM (which are not available on GOG anyways so they don't matter for this discussion).

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually, some games have DRM on steam and have a DRM free version on GOG. I even saw a game that had a DRM free epic and gog edition but the steam version had DRM. Might be a edge case, but still exists

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, there are a couple of corner cases, I know of 1. But what I stated is still true as a general rule.