[miiiiiike]

Sure. Until the first FromSoftware PS6 exclusive is released.

Child, six, seriously considering running away from home after parents refuse to serve dinner on dinosaur plate.

People realize that Steam doesn't use physical media, right? The real issue is the lack of consumer friendly regulation, not the medium.

[emdash]

I've been using Steam for 15 years and in that time they have never done me wrong. I trust Valve to do the right thing.

On the other hand, I know for a fact that sony will do the worst possible thing over and over again every time they have the chance to.

Remember that time Sony took away features from the PS3 that were advertised selling points? Remember when modders added the features back and Sony sent them to prison?

[miiiiiike]

And when Gabe dies? “I trust company” is not convincing.

[zetanor]

Some people like disc cases and the actual disk itself, but the main gripes I've seen with digital only games on consoles were: 1) without a disc you can't give/trade/sell the game, 2) without a disc the game can be taken away from you, 3) if you can't make an offline backup copy of the game and transfer it from console to console, most/every copy of a game will eventually disappear.

Steam has issues, and you certainly can't (legally) trade or sell your library, but nearly no single player games on the platform have DRM. Thus, you can have as many off-Steam backups as you want (which can't be remotely deleted/disabled), and you could certainly "give" the game to a friend (but don't copy that floppy), or otherwise preserve it for posterity.

[miiiiiike]

You could buy, sell, trade, loan, and backup games with the right regulation. Discs are irrelevant.

[zetanor]

You can fix a lot of problems if you have the necessary power. Unfortunately, this is not going to lead to a civilizational revolution.

[weezing]

Steam provides awesome services tho. PSN is utter shit.