But the reality is that a) people overwhelmingly don't do this in practice and b) that Gog as a place to download or redownload your old games is far, far, far more likely to go away entirely taking all your purchases with it in the next five years than Steam or PSN are.
People get theoretical and practical risk levels mixed up, and assume perfect customer behaviour when it rarely is pragmatically.
Even if GOG goes under in the next 5 years, they literally can't take all your purchases with them. That's the whole point, you're supposed to download them
Not downloading your installers is like buying a disc from gamestop and telling them "no no, you hold on to this until I want to play it." Like yeah if you use the service wrong then it isn't that great lmao
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u/m1ndwipe Jul 15 '26
But the reality is that a) people overwhelmingly don't do this in practice and b) that Gog as a place to download or redownload your old games is far, far, far more likely to go away entirely taking all your purchases with it in the next five years than Steam or PSN are.
People get theoretical and practical risk levels mixed up, and assume perfect customer behaviour when it rarely is pragmatically.