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While a lot of people continue to use Steam on a day to day basis, there are those out there that would prefer DRM-free access to their games. GOG has offered DRM-Free games for some time now but it would often require you to re-buy your Steam games on the GOG store for access, well until now that is. Today, GOG Connect was launched, allowing you to connect your Steam and GOG accounts for DRM-free access to some of the games you have already purchased on Steam.
This isn't available for every game though, titles will rotate in and out on a regular basis, so you will need to keep checking back every so often to see if there are any DRM-Free games you can claim. The service launched with twenty eligible games including Braid, Project Zomboid, Broken Sword: Director's Cut, Trine, Unreal Tournament, Shadow Run Returns and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition.
There is an FAQ that answers some important questions. For instance, if you already own a game on Steam and GOG, merging the accounts won't give you an extra key to pass on to someone else. Also, once you have imported a game from Steam to GOG, you get to keep that game on both services, even if it rotates out of the GOG Connect service.
If you are wondering why this isn't available for every game on GOG, then that is also explained: “We can only make a selection of games eligible depending on various agreements with our partners. You'll always be able to find an up-to-date list of eligible titles on this page.”
You can check out what is available on GOG Connect, HERE. The current batch of games rotate out in five days so presumably a new batch will be ready by then.
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KitGuru Says: This is a great idea and will make it much easier for people to transition to GOG by building up their libraries without having to purchase games twice. How many of you use GOG on a regular basis? What do you think of GOG Connect?
I like GOG but, most people don’t seem to mind steam these days. It’s just so easy and convenient, all your friends are there, and they have vastly more games, steam workshop works great too! But I think the main thing that what will stop GoG from ever being as big as steam is some devs will not be willing to launch a DRM free game. I can’t say I blame them with how easy it is to pirate a GOG game. For every 1 game that sells on GOG there is probably 100 pirated copies of that game.
Today’s DRM is actually nowhere near as annoying as the CD DRM we used to put up with. Remember having to put a disk in to play a game on PC? Swapping disks all the time? Some games you just couldn’t find a no cd crack for and it was quite annoying indeed.
Sounds like ancient history doesn’t it? Heh, that was only like 10 years ago most of us were still doing that.
Now we just have to worry if our internet is working, but even that is much more reliable then it was 10 years ago *for most of us*.
This is a great idea, even if just because having games on both services for the same price increases the security of keeping at least some of my games if one fails. As unlikely as that is to be an issue it is nice to have the extra security for free.
Yeah, I am glad the days of CD swapping are gone. Plus, no more typing in the key they gave every time you install it. And DRM is only really a problem when it is intrusive. Steam’s DRM is far from such. In fact if I had not been told it has DRM I would not have known it was there. Suspected, yes. Known, no.
I assume this feature works only for games that use just the standard Steam DRM. Games that use, say the infamous Denuvo that happen to be on Steam, probably dont apply.
Amazing!!!!!
Yeah those darn keys heh, what a pain. And back then windows was much less stable so formatting was frequent. I had to put in cd keys for the games I owned every single format, uhhhg!!!
ohhhhh but we did it gladly though… we weren’t playing nintendo anymore… in 1997, as cool as goldeneye was, it sure was amazing playing the hot new pc games that were using this relatively new thing called 3D GPU’s.
56k connection that only worked effectively at 36k, pwning noobs in action quake 2… you had to aim not on the player but where you thought they would be in about 2 seconds thanks to pings being in the hundreds. YOU YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPERS and your loud music and fast internet connections have no idea how spoiled rotten you are *shakes old cane at you!*
Don’t you just love it when you make a comment and the only reply you get is one of these pathetic spammers trying to get you to click their virus loaded bullcrap job offer links? That really grinds my gears. I wish I had the power to do something about it =-(. McLaren P1 lol, so lame.
But anyways, yeah, I would imagine that devs who don’t want their game as DRM free, won’t allow this to happen. It’s just the ones who are okay with having a DRM free version like project zomboid and others.
Well, I have jointly used PlayStation 1-3 and PC. I plan to get a PS4 one day as well.
I managed to get actual 56k dial-up. But that was awful enough. Trying up the phone line and the annoying screeching noise during log in all for a slow connection that took a while just to load a search engine. Ug, am I glad those days are over.
Yeah, annoying robots are annoying, so I just ignore then and hope they go away.
In regards to the DRM, maybe a couple of years after the game is out, they would allow GOG to share the game. I mean, 2 years later I assume the DRM did it’s job anyway, so going DRM-free is a win-win for everybody. I wish Origin would jump in as well, and maybe Uplay? One can dream.