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VanceIX said:
Zkuq said:
In practice you own most physical copies and no one cares about the so-called 'licenses'. End of story. With digital, it's totally different.

Not really. I don't feel that I only own a liscence with my digital games. I can play them offline and just like I do a physical game. 

People exaggerate the difficulties of going digital. It's almost the exact same thing. With consoles like the Xbox One, you can even store all your games on an external drive and take them to a friend's house to play. Maybe it'll be the same for the PS4 soon as well.

You can now, but can you ten years from now? Yeah, you don't know that. With physical games, you do: You can. Point is, in the end it's not up to you whether you can play those games, it's up to someone else and that someone else isn't a person, let alone a person you know. If that someone decides the service offering those games isn't worth taking care of anymore, they have every right to take it down, along with your access to the games you've paid for. And it's not just time: In some cases, it might be enough for you to just say something that someone doesn't like and bam, no more access to games!