I'm using Steam, i'm not always agree with some there. (after all everyone have its oponions) but insulting the whole community because some people doen't have the same opinions / tastes like yours , is just wrong.

And i beg to differ the whole community here doesn't hate with passion Steam, just some , not the WHOLE community.

It doesn't justify and it doesn't mean we have to rent everything, especially when renting is used as front for taking away customer control over a product and giving it to private corporates (drm).

Yes because it's so outrageous to demand that we get an update for a game we've already purchased. I don't remember ever complaining about Witcher 3 prices. GTA V is banned in Australia? Got any source on that? Only recent game I'm aware of being banned here is Hotline Miami 2.

Yes, it's so banned in fact that I managed to just waltz in chat up the lady behind the counter.... Oh and I bought the game while I was at it.
edit: oh and Hatred is too, but not if you bought the game before release date.
I do have a hilarious wishlist entry that seems to be underappreciated. "stop developers abusing GOG versions".
I was trying to gauge how important it is to not be treated like second class folk, and it seems nobody gives a shit as it only has +4.

Nothing wrong with renting, if that's what you want. My preferred renting service is actually Origin. I dislike it slightly less than Steam, myself.

That being said, if people don't want to rent, you respect that.

I must say I am a bit surprised. I thought your favorite rental service was gOg...

^ This. GOG is a rental service just as much as Steam, Origin, etc. It's just that they give you more freedom on what you can do with the game you rent. They still work on the same principle though, that you in the end don't actually own the game.

and I was about to say something about gOg fanatics and knowing your rights... or not knowing what they sign up to when they give their monies to gOg....

edit - and it just struck me how many here denigrates Steam's community, when gOg have so mature posts such as the one above :)

Quite good. I recently played it through including some mods who improve the game a lot. The story is still really good, the tension too and the gaming controls sufficient on a PC. The only drawback might be the low resolution textures here and there but for someone like me who doesn't care much about graphical quality, it's still good.

Definitely a lot of fun to play and worth the money but you may see that it is not from recent years graphics wise.

So while I would not dare to compare it to Witcher 3 for example, it is still quite good.
But noone ever owned a game truly. How can you own it if it is inherently non-physical? You even never owned a game when you still could buy it on disc where you had a bit more freedom but the principle was the same.

Do all these distinctions really make sense?

First you say GOG is like Steam and Origin.
Then you say it is not like Steam and Origin.
Then you say it is all the same (same principle).

So what is it then in the end? A bird, a plane, a birdplane?

In the end everything is the same, except for the differences. :)

Setting aside the semantic arguments over "licensing" versus "owning", the simple difference between GOG and Steam is this: if Steam shuts down its servers tomorrow, the vast majority of games on Steam stop working; if GOG does the same, nothing happens. This is what makes Steam a "rental" service; virtually all of the control over the products they "sell" are in Steam's hands, not yours, and while the same may be true on paper at GOG (read the EULAs on GOG games), in practice, that is not the case. With or without GOG as a service/storefront, you still maintain control over where, when, and how you use the software you have purchased. You can't say that about Steam without being completely disingenuous or embarrassingly ignorant.

GOG has it's fair share of moronic manchildren that much is true for certain.

Wow, no arguments and just ad hominem. Truly you have reached the end of the rope.

You have nothing. Leave it, that's friendly advice.

SW:KoTOR series is NOT a game. It's a legend.

No future patches is one reason stopping me from getting SW:KoTOR and SW:KoTOR Sith Lords.
But I can't hold much. I will get those as soon as a sale kicks in.
I hope GOG will make a deal with Aspyr and get them on board.

GOG, I FIND LACK OF PATCH DISTURBING.