We'd be here anyway, Steam or not. Or rather, we might not be as far into digital distribution as we are now, but at least we'd be well on the way. Steam is the blessing that allows us to have a pretty good service dominate at least one platform, rather than the terrible services offered by the big publishers. Steam is by no means perfect, but in most ways, it's way better than the alternatives. Possibly the only major improvement I'd like from Steam is if it had a DRM-free policy like e.g. GOG does, but since gamers are so willing to accept DRM, I doubt there is really much Valve could ever have done for that besides maybe slow down the advance of DRM.

But it is still largely responsible for the things gamers are complaining about.

If people want to complain about digitalization, I’m sorry, but Gaben needs to be part of the criticism. 

Doin' my part

I guess that's one way of looking at it. I don't necessarily think it's a very fruitful way of looking at it, but I can see why people would look at it that way. The way I see it is that the real issue is, as typical, people. I don't think there's been such a push for digitalization in gaming that people couldn't have resisted had they wanted to, but not enough of us did, and now here we are. 

I always purchase physical unless it's a PC game. Being able to sell your game when you're done is wonderful. Nowadays I get all my games on PC.

Is Indy on Switch 2 fully into the cart? It's not fully on disc on PS5.

Anyway, nice to see.

If I may say so myself tho, your country rating system is so big for the boss and still has such a big space of written stuff following to the right. Does it bothers you?

That's one thing I think Brazil has nailed perfectly and make our physical game boxes look the best I've seem IMO. Here it's similar to PEGI, but it's smaller, perfectly squared, no text anyway, and has a distinct color coding for every age tier unlike PEGI that shares some.

Isn't that the point? For each game that has a physical release you have 19 games that don't because physical is not important for gamers?

Also digital got also boost of the size of games on PC

GTA V physical edition on PC was 7 discs as an example

Not gonna lie, that looks as awesome as it looks troublesome lol

Not really. AAA games and great indie games usually get a physical release at some point. Either through regular retail or companies like Limited Run Games. There are smaller games from developers who cant afford doing a physical, shovelware, cheap quickly put together scam games and GaaS that make up for much of the difference.

I think the more important distinction is DRM vs. DRM-free. Digital vs. physical is moot (for most people, excepting those with poor internet access) when you can create your own physical copies and as many as you wish.

The only physical games I buy these days are Nintendo first party games, mainly because I find their IPs iconic and I like having the boxes.

Otherwise I like the convenience of digital more.