Everything I tried was a wasted effort and my game disc was nothing more than a glorified coaster. So feeling nostalgic I popped in the game disc a year ago and to my surprise the servers were unable to be reached and so was the toll free number.
#GOG EARTH 2160 ACTIVATION CODE#
The servers for authenticating your game are now closed down and so is the toll free phone number connected to it as well.īack when I had no internet and have had to reinstall windows I have had to spend many nights typing in my security code to access the game I had bought. Well they have an online activation system that is annoying at best and draconian at worst. Take the game Earth 2160 this game I bought years ago and it is a very fun and in depth game. When you buy a disc you own the disc, but you only are licensing the software. The official statement of Steam is if they were to close shop then they would release patches for their games so they could work without the Steam platform. Lets dive down into how much you really own your games and why I miss the days of only physical media. They can also pull your access to your account for any reason as well and have done this to people.
#GOG EARTH 2160 ACTIVATION LICENSE#
The short of it is you do not own any digital product you are more or less leasing the product from the company and they can pull your license for any reason. I have wondered to myself what happens to my games if steam shuts down? This is a perplexing question because I have spent hundreds of dollars on my game collection, and there are many times when companies that seemed they would last forever have died or been bought out.
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