GOG, the DRM-free PC games store run by The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red, is introducing a new feature: early access. Of course, early access--which lets you play games before they are finished--is not a new concept on PC (and it's something GOG has been talking about introducing since 2014), but the Polish company promises that its version is being handled "the GOG way." What this means is CD Projekt is hand-picking the games it allows into the program and the company will offer no-questions-asked refunds for a period of two weeks.
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GOG reminds "you can keep DRM-free Games." The folks at GOG are taking a free marketing shot, and they're not wrong.
Games purchased on Steam all require the launcher to run, and while there's an offline mode that's hardly a permanent solution.
GoG already lets you backup your games, and Steam has a system in place were they to ever shutdown. It's everyone else who needs to catch up.
being able to back up your game and your game having a valid license to play it is not the same thing.
I can reinstall virtually all of my PC games in perpetuity, no matter if the storefront shutters or not. Sounds like ownership to me.
Xbox at least offers Xbox Play Anywhere.
Sony meanwhile will remaster a game that doesn't need one and then double the price of the base game to justify their remaster's price.
I give Ubisoft 2 more years tops before they merge or dissolve
Lol play anywhere not bad but when are they are going actually own the IP like valve then I'll agree
Someone's got 2028/2032 ambitions.
A good thing to be sure, but it's Newsom laundering his pseudo-progressive image.
Save on new AAA releases, cult-favorite indies, and old-school PC classics.
CDPR. I am amazed no one is emulating them already. Play the game as they build, return in 14 days if u don't like it, no questions asked... can't think of a way to make it better. Haha!