Future of Physical Media in consoles - end of disks?

[DonFerrari]

Conina said:

DonFerrari said:

We have seem cases of people permanently banned from Live, PSN, Steam or whatever and they lost access to all the games they had even the ones installed weren't able to play because license couldn't be checked. How do you saveguard from it? Obey whatever order the companies give and accept every TOS?

DPsx7 said:
That too. I say getting hacked is something you may not have control of. Getting banned also denies access to your library but you should know why that happened.

SvennoJ said:

Sure, large corporations never make mistakes and have an excellent appeal process...

Avoiding permabans ain't THAT hard.

If someone gets permabanned due to constantly cheating in online games (spoling the fun of the other players), I don't feel any pity for him.
If someone gets permabanned due to playing pirated copies, I don't feel any pity for him either.
If someone gets permabanned due to threatening or insulting other players, I don't feel any pity for him either.

And when I take a look in your PSN profiles, all three PSN accounts are older than 10 years. So obviously all of you learned to behave "good enough" online to avoid permabans:

https://psnprofiles.com/DPsx7
https://psnprofiles.com/Don-Ferrari85
https://psnprofiles.com/SvennoJ

Of course large corporations can make mistakes by swinging the ban hammers. But underserved bans (f. e. your account gets hacked and the hacker does shit of the above) can be resolved in most cases by contacting the support. And if you are a good customer (bought many games) most support staff will do their best to resolve the issue instead of pissing the customer off.

Lost passwords to digital accounts also can be retrieved quite easy, so you don't have to "throw away" an account just because you don't remember the password.

Probably DPsx7 should be more worried about beein banned from this site when his wall looks like that:

I don't game online so I wouldn't be banned on that. Still their internal regulation basically allow them to ban you on their own choice with your TOS acceptance meaning you accept it no matter the reason. Also not accepting a TOS (let's say when people got concerned about the new feature of voice recording) will mean you can't access the PSN so you won't be able to redownload.

That is just to much power in the hand of the corporation against you.