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Article #350925Re: Broken Sword 5 1/2 off on steam today 4/5
From: Jim G.
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:37
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:37
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Mary sent the following on 4/7/2014 10:21 PM: > "Jim G." <jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid> wrote in message > news:lhvh8d$v6i$1@dont-email.me... >> Mary sent the following on 4/5/2014 10:52 PM: >>> I much prefer "owning" the game like on Gog.com where all or most of the >>> games are DRM and you can burn the game to a CD >> >> I think you mean "DRM-*free*", as they don't have the DRM restrictions >> that plague many other gaming sites. :) > > Maybe I didn't get things quite right. I thought DRM free meant that games > on Gog can be copied to a blank CD and have no copy protect software like > some games have when you buy them commercially at a store or online before > downloadable game sites came into being. Right. But you initially said "all or most of the games are DRM" above, which is contradictory, and it was the second time that I'd noticed it. I was just pointing out that you left out the critical "-free" part. I knew that you had the concept down just fine, but I wanted to clarify the terminology. :)
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