Just give them the files and pinky promise to delete them yourself?

It amazes me that people nowadays know so little about piracy that this is somehow touted as a solution.

GP wasn't being serious.

I've seen this sentiment repeated enough times on reddit that I no longer can tell the difference.

Gog license doesn't allow reselling at all

Then you don't really own it IMO.

I agree. It allows you yo backup your games, which to be fair you can do with Steam too and just play offline forever.

The same way you sell your disks: find a buyer, send them the game files, they send you the money

> find a buyer

this buyer would rather buy off GOG than you, unless you give a significant discount (and even then, the trust is hard to establish).

Therefore, even if you might have a legal right to re-sell (which you really don't unfortunately), the actual sale won't happen.

Same for disks. That the second hand market is cheaper is expected and a feature and a major reason why game publishers do everything they can so it doesn't exist.

That's not relevant to the issue of "ownership"

This isn't an ownership problem, it's a medium problem (and perhaps a legal problem)