GOG is very good at two things: Bringing old games to modern PCs, and telling everyone that its games are DRM-free so you can do whatever you want with them. So I was not terribly shocked when GOG weighed in on Sony’s decision to stop producing game discs in 2028 with a little note reminding its followers on X that they can just DIY this stuff if they want.
“Download the offline installer of any of your games on GOG, save it to a disc and it’s yours forever,” it wrote. “You don’t need a storefront’s permission to play what you bought.”
Not much to it, but there’s not much to say—it really is that simple, as long as you have the hardware for it. An awful lot of PCs don’t have optical drives anymore, which is maybe a bit of a bump in that particular road, but to that point I will say two things:
💿 If you have even a passing interest in game preservation (or just not losing your stuff because a platform account went up in smoke for some reason), you probably have an optical drive installed or an external lying around somewhere