What does it even mean to “own” a video game?

[HoloDust]

Conina said:

HoloDust said:

Original purpose of GOG is what it states in the name - Good Old Games. If you look at it from that perspective, it does it's job great, making those old games available and playable on modern hardware...and properly digitally owned.

Yeah, I bought hundreds of old games on GOG and got hundreds of them on that platform via Amazon Prime Gaming.

Although they have a few new games, I mostly buy those on Steam. Patches for new games are released much earlier on Steam in most cases. Steam also has a better controller compatibility. Some GOG games I had to play via the Steam client ("add a Non-Steam game") to get proper gamepad controls.

The very few VR games they have are restricted to a few VR headsets and VR controllers. The flexibility, convenience and compatibility of SteamVR just isn't there.

Yeah, I use GOG almost exclusively for old games, since they go extra mile to actually certify/enable them to be playable on modern hardware, which is not always the case with Steam.

But for everything else, yeah, Steam is just way more convenient, and I see that getting even more convenient in the future, with more devices getting support for it.