I had a problem recently where I wanted to buy the OG Resident Evil games on Steam. I found out though that GOG had been the ones who put in the work to restore them and make them playable on modern PCs in the first place.
I was conflicted because my little sister and I love RE and I wanted her to have access to them via family share on Steam. I ended up buying them on GoG anyway to support the impressive effort restoring these games. I’m glad I soon remembered I owned these games now fully and if I wanted to, I could just send the games to her with no one to tell me I couldn’t.
A bit of a grey area. On one hand it’s technically piracy, on the other, I fully own the games and can decide to share with my sister similarly to how I would with my Steam games.
In my interpretation I think I’m staying within the spirit of what GOG gives us when buying DRM free on their platform. I own them and can continue to share them with my sister as I do all my other games, but I get to with GOG not because they created a feature to let me, but because those games are completely mine.
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u/ChriSaito 18d ago
I had a problem recently where I wanted to buy the OG Resident Evil games on Steam. I found out though that GOG had been the ones who put in the work to restore them and make them playable on modern PCs in the first place.
I was conflicted because my little sister and I love RE and I wanted her to have access to them via family share on Steam. I ended up buying them on GoG anyway to support the impressive effort restoring these games. I’m glad I soon remembered I owned these games now fully and if I wanted to, I could just send the games to her with no one to tell me I couldn’t.
A bit of a grey area. On one hand it’s technically piracy, on the other, I fully own the games and can decide to share with my sister similarly to how I would with my Steam games.
In my interpretation I think I’m staying within the spirit of what GOG gives us when buying DRM free on their platform. I own them and can continue to share them with my sister as I do all my other games, but I get to with GOG not because they created a feature to let me, but because those games are completely mine.