• Jrockwar@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    Sure, just like other brick and mortar stores can refuse to give you backups of a DVD you own.

    As long as the installer works offline this is just as good. It’s up to you to store it in whichever format you prefer so that you don’t lose it - hard drive, thumb drive, DVD…

    If you nuke your computers hard drive with the installers of your games, or you step on your blu rays with games and break them, then you lose access to them. As it’s always been, no matter the format?

    • oo1@lemmings.world
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      3 months ago

      yeah, keep backups.

      i’ve got some a few old games bought on floppies or cds that are knackered now. A few of them i’ve ended up buying again from gog.