You are not planting trees that you will never sit in the shade of.
There will ALWAYS be inherent risk with digital that they hold the keys to. Digital is a nice supplement, if a physical copy is owned. You give them an inch though and they’ll grind your grandma up to make animal feed so they can get eggs from the chickens and collude to price fix you out of your omelette.
Across all products , including physical media but also any connected hardware devices, they need to be shipping and maintaining a minimum viable experience that can’t be altered or disabled. That would require legislation or a standards org they have a need to comply with. No more remote bricks for HW and SW, full stop.
You are not planting trees that you will never sit in the shade of.
There will ALWAYS be inherent risk with digital that they hold the keys to. Digital is a nice supplement, if a physical copy is owned. You give them an inch though and they’ll grind your grandma up to make animal feed so they can get eggs from the chickens and collude to price fix you out of your omelette.
GOG shows you can actually own your digital games with downloadable fully offline installers.
Across all products , including physical media but also any connected hardware devices, they need to be shipping and maintaining a minimum viable experience that can’t be altered or disabled. That would require legislation or a standards org they have a need to comply with. No more remote bricks for HW and SW, full stop.