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Zkuq on 26 September 2010
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welshbloke said:
Zkuq said:
welshbloke said:

what happens when the physical media shatters inside your player. This happened to me recently when a disc that had become brittle and then shattered destroyer the player.

Come on, how often does that happen? Oh, it was your first time and also your last in many, many years? I thought so.

It becomes more common the older the discs become, the point being physical media guarantees nothing unless you take steps to ensure it will still be available in 5 years. 

I've had it happen only once and even then, I think the CD drive was getting old so it wasn't the CD's fault. I still have several PS1 games and they're all working perfectly (except the ones that got scratched back in the PS1 days). The only kind of DD that could 'ensure' I'm still able to play the game at a later date is one that is completely DRM free so even if the service goes down, I'll be able to make a backup. So far the only one I know is GOG.com, and as they have pretty decent prices, I've been a customer of theirs since, what, the beginning of the beta? The thing is, other services have too high prices and too restrictive DRM. Even Steam (or should I say 'especially Steam').