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Agreed. I love their stance on DRM and the fact that they put money behind their words.

I go out of my way to support them instead of Steam especially if both games are on the same platform (Atom, Divinity ).

I am sure there will be some abusers. I just hope their numbers are not high enough to merit policy change.

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i don't think there will be significant abuse, actually. every game on GOG is all over bitorrent already, since there's no DRM. anyone unwilling to pay is more likely to pirate than to go through the effort of gaming the returns.

It is way safer and quicker to do the return than to mess with shady sites.

So your assertion is likely false.

You would need a GOG account and a paypal/credit card where with a torrent you just go to your favorite site and download the game.

I expect it'll work like Audible, where the first two or three returns can be done yourself and take effect immediately, but after that you need to call Audible support and ask them to return it.

Having both pirated GOG games and then later bought the same games because I liked them so much, I can confirm it is easier to pirate games. GOG is DRM-free, which is excellent when playing the games because it doesn't suck up megabytes or even gigabytes of memory (for DOS-era games), but when it comes to piracy you can just download the installer executable and run it without any problem whatsoever. No torrents are even required, you can just download the EXE through HTTP(S) on most sites.

I've had less problems pirating GOG games than I've had playing legitimately purchased Steam games.

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