Posted October 02, 2017
TornadoCreator: This is why, while I prefer physical media, I like GOG... I buy a game and it's mine. I have a file that they cannot take away. I could copy that file and give it away to 50 people and there's nothing they could do to stop me.
Ancient-Red-Dragon: That's not always true with physical media games. I have physical copies of Painkiller and Painkiller: Battle out of Hell. They will not work on Windows 10 because they are infested with the SecuROM DRM, and Microsoft programmed Windows 10 to forbid SecuROM from starting. I have a whole bunch other physical media games that don't work for the same reason. For Painkiller and Battle out of Hell, I was able to find a crack to bypass SecuROM, but if I use it, then it patches the game to an unofficial patch number, which makes my previous saved games unrecognizable by the game's interface and therefore unusable. Therefore, I had to re-buy those games here on GOG because that is the only way that I could both play them on Windows 10 and use my old saved games too.
So they (in this case, Microsoft) have indeed effectively taken my games away by making my game discs into useless junk that cannot be played on modern systems.
Saves, again in most cases saves are not version specific so this shouldn't be a problem in most cases, although in most cases I don't see a value in keeping saves anyways, only when there is character information (e.g. RPGs) or specific progresss (opened all shops on rogue legacy).