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The majority of games on Gog offer fully offline installers, where the copy you download is enough to run forever (assuming Windows and hardware compatibility, of coruse).

What do you think these game companies should do instead? The license lets you make your own copies on your own devices while preventing stealing by people who might make a copy and then resell, which would absolutely happen if allowed.

You are absolutely right that they are just licenses and there always be a risk i cannot download or play the games anymore because of some decision. In that perspective Gog is absolutely the best. No doubt about that.

But so far, Steam has been really good to/for me.

Which is GOG's selling point, versus Steam.

Everything is DRM free and they provide offline installers. They are also proactive in making sure the games they sell run on modern systems.