Steam, the world’s most popular digital gaming platform, recently made a remarkable change to its shopping system. This change, which caused a great resonance and reaction in the gaming world, attracted the attention of many players. Following this development, GOG, another popular digital store, made a humorous reference to Steam. Here are the details
GOG made a reference to Steam
Recently, Steam started displaying license warnings for games added to the shopping cart. The warnings state that users are buying a license to play the game, not the game itself. The message reads as follows: “You are purchasing a license to play this game on Steam, not the game itself. This license does not include any additional rights to the intellectual property of the game”
Steam’s new warning made a big noise in the gaming world. Today, rival digital game store GOG, owned by CD Projekt Red, made a humorous reference to Steam with a remarkable post on its official X account.
“Since payment warnings are trending, we thought we’d add one of our own. What do you think?”, GOG announced the warning on its cart page. The warning in question is as follows: “When you purchase a digital product from GOG, you own the Offline Installers that are given to you, and these installers cannot be taken away from you.”
In effect, GOG is sending a subtle message to Steam, implying that the platform may restrict or revoke users’ access to their games. On the other hand, GOG is trying to emphasize that games purchased from GOG’s digital game store are completely owned by the user thanks to Offline Installers and can never be taken back.
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