Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements Down to Just Three Years
petapixel.com
So long, lifetime license.

Among the most significant changes with this year’s Elements releases has little to do with new features but instead concerns the ways users purchase and own the software. While prior versions of Photoshop and Premiere Elements have been lifetime licenses — the user buys the software and then owns it indefinitely — this year’s release has moved to a three-year license term.

  • MentalEdgeEnglish
    31•9 hours ago

    Note that a lot of games on steam don’t have any DRM, either. It’s probable that if you have large library, a lot of your installed games will run without steam, if you go and start them from their exe.

    So you can likely archive at least some of your steam games by simply keeping them installed, or even squirreling away the install folder somewhere.

    • BombOmOmEnglish
      10•3 hours ago

      GOG also lets you download the installers for your games so you can play them with or without GOG. A notable part of their service is the games do not have a GOG drm.

      • MentalEdgeEnglish
        7•3 hours ago

        Not sure what you mean by with or without GOG, but their whole thing is that none of their games have DRM.

        AFAIK, you end up with identical installs even if you use Galaxy to download and install your games, and the installs will continue to work even if you uninstall Galaxy. The actual game files are exactly the same.

        I think the installers boil down to convenient self-decompressing archives for getting the game files onto your machine.

        If you have the game files for a GOG game installed using any method, those can be moved around, copied, and run with no problem.

        • @yamaniiEnglish
          4•3 hours ago

          The only reason that I still use galaxy to open the games is because it will upload your saves to their cloud.