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⌈ Secret Post #2989 ⌋

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(Digimon Adventure/02/Tri)

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['Allo 'Allo!]

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[Colby Keller]

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[Kokoro Kiseki - Vocaloid]

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[MSPaintAdventures, Homestuck]

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[David Mitchell and Robert Webb]

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[Graham McTavish from Outlander]

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[Game of Thrones/ A Song of Ice and Fire]

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[Alfred Hitchcock's Rope]

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["Darkness Falls," World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor]

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[Avengers]

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[Bob Bryar from My Chemical Romance]

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[Criminal Minds]

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[Vikings]

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[Gunnerkrigg Court]

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Whether it's through Steam, GOG.com, or wherever.

Is the game locked to a particular computer? Or can you transfer it to a different one?

My laptop's slightly on the old side and was only mid-range at best to start with, so I'm not sure it can actually run most stuff well.

At least on Steam you get your games library purchases across all the computers that you have your account signed to, but you still need to DL them individually.

Generally they are not tied to a certain computer but to an account. At least, as far as my experience has been.

GOG.com is DRM-free the last I checked. That means you can download and install as often as you like without restriction. They may have added DRM titles lately.

Some steam titles might be login-locked, but I've upgraded twice and had no problems reinstalling. For a while, I had Steam running on both halves of a dual-boot OSX/Win7 system.

Edited 2015-03-11 23:41 (UTC)

With Steam, the game is locked to your steam account, so you can reinstall from Steam later on on another computer no problem... I think progress would be lost though? With GOG nothing is locked to nothing, you bought the game and it's yours. (I'm not sure if you can redownload or if you have to transfer from one computer to the other though)

Most Steam games put savefiles and preferences in the Home folder.

If the game uses cloud saving, your progress and preferences are saved. So that's cool.

At least on Steam, if the computer can run the game, you can log into Steam and play it.

Games you buy on Steam are absolutely not locked to a particular machine (possibly excepting certain games from about 5-7 years ago which came with their own DRM, but this practice has fallen by the wayside for good reason (it pisses everyone off!) and many of these games have since had that DRM stripped away.) I've had my Steam account for 10 years across five separate PCs. The only thing you can't do IIRC is have two copies of the same game running at the same time, but who would do that?

GoG.com is DRM-free entirely, so the question is moot.

Ones I have experience with:

Steam and Origin are tied to the account. You can install the games on any computer that you have the client installed on.
GoG aren't tied to anything.
Elsewhere, it varies, but it's not common to do that any more. (But, apparently the version of FFVII rerelease from Square did, though the Steam version did not.)

It amuses me that unless they're absolutely forced, nobody uses anything except Steam and GoG.

Origin isn't BAD, but I still don't use it unless I have to.

Only reason I have any of the three is they were giving away games I wanted for free. >_>

(Steam for Portal, GoG for Fallout 1 and 2, Origin for Dragon Age: Origins.)

My Steam account is 10 years old and truly massive, but I only ever got it for Half-Life 2.

My GoG account is 'cuz they were giving away some free game I've still yet to play lol (but I got all 3 classic Fallout games off it plus a number of other old titles I enjoy so there's that.)

Origin? I only have Origin for Mass Effect 3 and Dead Space 3 lol

Thanks, everyone!

I'd hoped it might be something like that, but I've been out of gaming since I was a kid (and wasn't the one buying the games) so I've got no clue how drm works.

DRM has evolved over the years. Generally the consensus is that it should be as unobtrusive as possible, but I still remember the days of SecuROM with its five-installs-'til-lockout scheme, and uninstalling did not give you back an install to your count. And even that wasn't as bad as Starforce destroying peoples' disc drives!

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