The Luna Deadline: industry problem, not just Luna
I don’t use Luna, but this matters to everyone: Amazon is removing individual purchases and streamed access, and that’s simply the latest example of how “buying” digital games, films and TV now often means temporary access controlled by platforms.
https://the.unknown-universe.co.uk/privacy-security/the-luna-deadline/Open linkView original on lemmy.ml
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If it’s provided via cloud services, it’s always temporary access controlled by platforms.
It’s why I treat everything cloud-based as a rental now. If I can't install it locally and back up the data myself, I don't really own it.
Calling Steam safe(r) and failing to mention GOG feels like extremely lazy journalism.
My bad, GOG is absolutely the gold standard for DRM-free ownership. Personally, I buy on Steam for the convenience and the Proton support but I still collect every free titles on GOG
I wish GOG supported Linux at the level Valve does. On paper it sounds like a match made in heaven. But they don't, and the strange things they do to the executables of old games to preserve them makes them difficult to get running under wine and proton smoothly.