Digital is currently lacking the freedoms of physical media to adequately share, borrow, resell, etc. They're trying to catch up currently but there's no way digital takes over the whole market, especially not within the next 10 years.

I think that would be ridiculous. Music started down the path to digital in the mainstream long before gaming did, but do you think physical media for music is going away this decade? My Barnes & Noble still has a quite large CD selection. And a huge DVD and Blu-ray section despite the pervasiveness of streaming for movies.

Physical's gonna be there for those that want it for a while.

Maintaining a digital collection just doesn't seem as fun as the physical alternative. I like to scan through my games like I'm scanning through a little library of books sometimes. Sometimes I like to look through them with no intention of actually picking one out to play. Sometimes I like to scan through them with a friend. Sometimes I like to go to a game store with them. Sometimes I like to hunt for used deals.

It's just a big change in the feel of consuming the industry, and people get too aggressive or defensive speaking on either side. It doesn't help convince people that digital>physical if you start the conversation like "What's wrong with you? This is the future. Your physical media sucks because ____."

I can see myself going digital in the future and not regretting it, but for all things gained there is usually something lost as well...

What's wrong with you? This is the future. Your physical media sucks because...   :))

Seriously, about the underlined:

Ever since going digital, I found it much easier to share or borrow games. Now my friend and I can buy the game together, and play it without need to actually see each other. With a disc, if I wanted to play the game from 8-10 pm, and he wanted to play it from 11-1 am, we would need to actually go outside and meet each other and swap discs.

Now all we need is one what'sapp or Viber message. No need for discs, no need for waiting, my friend can actually be 200 kilometers away and we can still share the game we bough together.

Physical disc will never have that convenience. And once we're finished playing the game, we sell it and get most of our money back, with which we buy new digital games.

The disc is now such an inconvenience that its value has dropped dramatically. Digital content nowe has a much higher resale value, and the value is compounded by not needing to spend money on postage when selling discs, or wasting time waiting for a few days for the mail to arrive.

i just really like physical copies as i like having a rack of games to choose from my own collection. However, im not opposed to digital

I don't think people are against digital games but a digital only future, as it stands now most console owners are not capable of constantly downloding 20GB+ games as this gen is already showing. With my PS3 it take about 1 1/2-2hrs to download a 5GB-7GB i can't imagine or rather have the patience to download a game roughly 4x that size; it would take me almos half a day to download KZ:SF compared to an hour going to my nearest gaming store.

As it stand now DD should be an option, not mandatory.

I used to have my doubts when it came to DD games. Now I don't care anymore which way i obtain them. Games that I really want to have I buy physical. Just because, collecting or something.
Although I do fear something will happen to my ps3 or my account and I won't be able to play any of the dozens of games i bought.

6 years ago this subject was great for some awesome discussions.

DRM and price. DRM is a real threat in cases where you can't simply crack the game (that is, consoles), and the prices of digital games are generally higher when the games are not on sale.

I'm honestly not a huge fan of the concept. I understand why they do it (to reduce loaing times, to help against piracy, whatever). But I just prefer having my retail games in a physical medium. I miss the "good old days" of gaming, even with PS2/GC/Wii, where you just bought a game, brought it home, popped that fucker in, and got right to playing it. Now? Even on Wii U, most of the games you buy have SOME sort of update or something that you have to download and install before you can actually get to playing. I was genuinely surprised that MK8 didn't really have something like that right out of the box.

Like I said, I understand the logic behind why PS4 and Xbone are doing it. I just don't care for it.

All of above.

The worst being that you're paying significantly more for a game you can't sell.

I'd be one of those crazy people lol. I have bought starcraft 64 and snowbaord kids 2 AUS versions for $1k each boxed and manual in mint condition.

Like I said, when huge, large scale hacks happen companies will 100/100 times make it up to the users. Individual attacks are the only thing that are truly worrying in terms of losing your account forever, and those happen when you don't have good account security.

Do you know me? Seriously? Are you really so bitter that you don't think I could buy a game on Steam over a decade ago (Steam came out in 2003 btw). iTunes has been available since 2001. Like I said, grow up. Digital distribution has been around far longer than you think.