JOKA_ said:
Whoa thanks for the thorough response. I agree that some of my points were thin (theft), and I do think there is some risk because its not guaranteed that these services will be around forever. As a counter point, I do want to mention data rot for physical media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation#Decay_of_storage_media Its entirely possible that in 20 or 30 years those collections of discs won't work anymore.
Of course I miss being a kid, leaving GameStop with a fresh new game, reading the manual on the way home. But progress marches on, and I don't think those times are coming back (definitely not the manual part ha). I'm not saying that I WANT physical media to go away, I just see it as an inevitablilty. I'm totally cool with both co-existing....I just don't see it happening. And to go back to the OP's question, it seems silly (imo) to stop doing a hobby because the delivery method changed. |
It's also entirely possible that in 30 years, your computer's operating system will no longer be compatible with the copies of your games as well,putting you in the same boat. A copy of Metal Gear for the MSX2 isn't going to natively run on your current Windows 10 machine even if you have a digital copy.
