Their tagline is literally ‘you buy it, you own it’. But does it really grants ownership?

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    3 months ago

    “GOG services” and “GOG content” are things like the GOG website itself, not the copies of the games you buy from it.

    GOG suspending your right to use their service is analogous to a brick-and-mortar store trespassing and blacklisting you: in the same way that getting trespassed from GameStop doesn’t entitle them to break into your house and confiscate everything you’ve previously purchased from them, getting kicked off GOG does not and legally cannot invalidate your ownership – not “licensing,” ownership – of the games you’ve previously purchased from them.

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      1.3 Also, when we’re talking about games, in-game content, virtual items or currency or GOG videos or other content or services which you can purchase or access via GOG services, we’ll just call them “GOG games” or “GOG videos” respectively and when we talk about them all together they are “GOG content”.

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        Okay then, I guess GoG is lying the same way Steam is after all. I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, but concede that I was wrong.

        “Licensed not sold” is still bunk, though. They do not have the right to confiscate games you’ve previously purchased, no matter what their fucking User Agreement claims.

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          Their user agreement doesn’t claim they can remove files from your computer. If your account gets suspended you no longer have access to the game you paid for unless you have previously downloaded and stored it.

          I bought Witcher 3 on GOG, but I don’t currently have it saved anywhere. If GOG suspends my account, I can no longer access the content I paid for