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minus-squareJo Miran@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62arrow-down5·edit-219 days agoIf there’s an offline game you love and play all the time, consider buying it again on GOG.com.
minus-squareVoyajer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·19 days agohttps://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog Check 2.1, GOG is the same.
minus-squareacosmichippo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agounless you keep the offline installers.
minus-squareVoyajer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·19 days agoI mean at that point you can just make backups of your steam games too. A lot work straight from the exe and for the rest there are steam simulators.
minus-squareRetro_unlimited@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agoAlso don’t forget to download the offline installers from GOG. I spent all of last week doing that
minus-squareJo Miran@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 days agoIs there a nice FOSS utility to do that? I need to do a backup of my GOG library.
minus-squareRetro_unlimited@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 days agoI did find a few on GitHub, but the one I tried had an error after a few downloads, so I just manually got them all.
minus-squareKonala Koala@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days agoProblem there is the games I have in Steam which are Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, and GTA 5 I was looking at and thinking about whether or not to get, are not coming up on GOG.
If there’s an offline game you love and play all the time, consider buying it again on GOG.com.
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog
Check 2.1, GOG is the same.
unless you keep the offline installers.
I mean at that point you can just make backups of your steam games too. A lot work straight from the exe and for the rest there are steam simulators.
Also don’t forget to download the offline installers from GOG. I spent all of last week doing that
Is there a nice FOSS utility to do that? I need to do a backup of my GOG library.
I did find a few on GitHub, but the one I tried had an error after a few downloads, so I just manually got them all.
Problem there is the games I have in Steam which are Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, and GTA 5 I was looking at and thinking about whether or not to get, are not coming up on GOG.