NovumZ: Amok you're very well written, I am not. This is very simple, simple statement from a gamer: We want to own the games we purchase. Ownership is very satisfying experience and it's our right. I have quite a bit of games that are collecting dust because I refused to accept licence agreement. They are licensing games now, there was no such thing back in a day! you bought it - you played it, it was yours!
My last reply to this thread and I just want to thank gog for being
pro gamer and I will do my best to support you guys. Thank you CDPR for making a Brilliant game!
It has always been like this. You are mixing up "ownership" and "access", which are two different concepts. In the old days of "disk-only" you still only licensed the game, you did not own it. In fact, when you bought a game you owned the disk, but licensed the game which was on it. Even back then it was licenses. This can be exemplified with breaking the disk, i.e. loosing access to it. Where you then only renting the game?
The same with gOg - I have some hundreds games here which I have not downloaded. What if gOg deletes my account tomorrow? i.e. I loose access to my games. Does it mean I only rented my games on gOg?