LogFAQs > #913797803

Dikitain posted...

Again, speculation. Anything CAN happen, I can walk outside and get struck by lightning, have a giant meteor land on my head, be sucked into a giant sink hole under my feet and have a million dogs run up to me and drown me in their piss, but that doesn't mean I am going to fear that happening because the chances of it are so minuscule. Same with a game company just magically deciding that they are going erase any and all copies of a game from existence despite the fact that someone has already bought and downloaded them. Not selling it anymore, that can happen, but all copies aren't magically going to evaporate at someone's will.

And yes, carts and discs do fail. It is not going to be 10-20 years from now, but likely in 100 or so years those games are going to rot. Capacitors die, silicon erodes, disks dry up, all that can happen no matter how well you take care of them. Conversely, if I am taking a digital game and transferring it every 10 years or so to the latest and greatest form of backup media and doing so in triplicate, I don't have to worry about that.

Speculation my ass, games have disappeared already. A short list was provided. Just because PT didn't cost anything doesn't mean the same won't happen for paid content. Companies never have our best interests in mind.

Sure, if you stretch the time frame long enough. I think 100 years is more than sufficient for our purposes and longer than any company will be selling games. Digital is the worst possible choice for content because it's not trivial to simply transfer it like you think.