| RubberWhistleHistle said: this is precisely the problem with this system that spemanig is advocating. We have to give up our power to own something forever and put WAY too much trust in the developer to keep these games available. Also, what happens when a company takes a shit and they shut down servers, and the games are lost forever? |
You'd still own the game forever. Do you have any understanding of how digital games work? It isn't some imaginary IOU. It's 2015. Just because you can't touch something doesn't mean it isn't yours.
That wouldn't happen. There's too much money to be lost for that to happen. If, say, Valve went bankrupt tomorrow, Steam wouldn't just end. Someone would buy Steam and continue making the profits off that marketplace.
I know digital seems like this new and scary abstract frontier where content seems imaginary, and you can't touch the stuff you own so it doesn't seem real at first. I promise you, it is real.
Roms, a form of digital game media, preserves old games as we speak. If the gaming apocolypse really did happen to one of these companies, and it won't, they'd be what preserves those games too.
But basing consumer fears on an absurd gaming apocolypse is, well, absurd.
