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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

the vast majority of the games I own on Steam can't

People keep making this claim, but I don't think this is true, I've made backups of lots of games, even played some in lan with some friends from just a single copy to convince them to buy the game. DRM has to be enabled by the developer, so the majority of games don't do it, but also lots of games are badly coded and assume steam will be present so they fail to start without the steam library, but any game that's released somewhere else besides steam probably will just work (and any game that's only released on steam can't be found anywhere else so they're irrelevant).