G.o.G.'s End-user license agreement says :"This Program is licensed, not sold, for your personal, non-commercial use". What happens if GoG goes out of business? I can't own anymore the game I bought, since it was "licensed" and not sold? I'm inclined to think that a license decades if the company isn't there anymore. What happens?

Oh boy, here we go again.

Anyway, I'm of to bed.

Is that an answer? Less worthless answers would be appreciated.

If GOG goes out of businessm then the license is of course still valid, and you still own it. The only thing that changes is that you can't download the game again (since there won't be a GOG server to donload it from), but you should make backups anyway, and you can still use them legally long after GOG has vanished.

Thanks, I hope it's as you say.

You don't need to "hope", it's really quite clear (which may be the reason for the tone of the first response you got). To be honest I have no idea why you think it could be different.

Put it this way: the games are DRM-free. You bought them from a legitimate seller. Only problems on your end (such as computer / backup failure) could stop you from playing those games.

It's GOG, not GoG.

And welcome to forum.

Or if GOG goes down and you haven't downloaded the games. :p

Why I think it could be different? Exactly because of what I wrote in the first post: game not "sold" but "licensed". DRM-free means to me that there's no copy protection, for your personal comfort, not because you can copy the game and give it to somebody else, since the license is personal. My question isn't obvious at all, to me. I don't know what this "licensed" stuff can imply. As for the first answer, I've been far more polite than what that answer deserved.

You still have your licence. It doesn't terminate if GOG should cease to operate. One of GOG's major selling point is that you're not dependant on their continued existence (unless you lose your backups and want to download them again, of course).

When you are buying the game you are always buying license to use it and not game per se. Even if you buy boxed one.

Due to GOG games being DRM-free and distributed as stand-alone executable installers, they are effectively sold. Unless you're planning to get in a legal pissing match in the courts then what GOG calls the transaction, what the publisher calls the transaction, even what the courts call the transaction- none of that matters.

you do know your supposed to keep receipts for non consumables for like 7 years under EU tax laws right? right??