Comment by nvme0n1p1
1 day ago
Are you saying you think it's not economically viable to build and sell games that work offline and can be bought used? If so, how did the gaming industry survive and continue growing for several decades from the 1980s through the 2010s?
Physical vs digital ownership, as I went at lengths to distinguish between.
How would I go about reselling a game I downloaded from GOG? If you're right, this should be happening already.
DRM free does not mean you own the game. All companies, including GoG rely on the 'licensing trick' to avoid granting first sale doctrine related rights, like reselling. You can read the EULA in any game you buy from GoG or read part of it here: "3.3 Your GOG account and GOG content are personal to you and cannot be shared with, sold, gifted or transferred to anyone else." [1]
Otherwise yeah, you'd be able to buy most stuff on GoG for pennies by now.
[1] - https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User...
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You just put it on a USB stick or email it to someone. If you don't delete your own copy then you broke the law, of course.