Doobie_wop said:
Cons
- The service that is providing the game may not be around forever
Your discs may not be around forever either. The chances of one of the big DD going bust is probably smaller than the chances of your house catching fire and destroying all your physical media. If that happens with DD all your games will still be waiting for you to download.
anyone with half a brain will have good home owners/renters insurance and it will replace the game regardless of cost. As for big publishers going out of business, Midway (which was big even if you didn't care for their games) went out of business and EA losses money all the time. I wouldn't really trust any of them. Sure, I can break my physical copy but I've had mine survive for over 20 years so I'm not to concerned
- My bandwidth does not support the amount of games I would have to download to match the amount that I buy now.
This should change in the future as networks and tech improve. People couldn't imagine downloading full CDs 10 yrs ago. Now we can stream them.
this is a non-point for DD, not a plus or minus, but it will prevent it from being now
- Everything will be compressed so that the file size can be kept as small as it can.
Not neccessarily if the tech improves.
music is still compressed and we are well past needing to do that. Even if the tech gets better it saves companies money by making the files small.
- DRM
Nearly all games have DRM already. It's an ongoing problem not unique to DD. Some places do it right (like GOG.com) and others do it wrong (like Ubisoft
yes, but it isn't as restrictive on physical media. I can take my physical copy with me and play it on pretty much any system. With digital copies they try to lock it to a single system. So once it is bought on your PC/Console it is locked to that single device (not always the case, but typically).
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