The issue is that someone else holds the key to your license. They can revoke it at any time, with 0 meaningful consequences.
We must now provide our own physical media to store the game…which in principle is fine and makes more sense than a game disk. However, its the reliance corporations to not fuck you over that’s the issue.
Archiving all your games is easier than said done too.
To properly “keep” every game, you’ll need a lot of high-capacity storage devices.
Going by common file backup strategy, we need to store at least 3 copies, ideally 1 off site somehow. That’s going to add up quick.
And hopefully your game is DRM free and doesn’t try to phone home looking for a valid license on a deprecated server.
The issue is that someone else holds the key to your license. They can revoke it at any time, with 0 meaningful consequences.
We must now provide our own physical media to store the game…which in principle is fine and makes more sense than a game disk. However, its the reliance corporations to not fuck you over that’s the issue.
Archiving all your games is easier than said done too. To properly “keep” every game, you’ll need a lot of high-capacity storage devices. Going by common file backup strategy, we need to store at least 3 copies, ideally 1 off site somehow. That’s going to add up quick.
And hopefully your game is DRM free and doesn’t try to phone home looking for a valid license on a deprecated server.