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RE: Why we need to support physical media
I can tell you now we need to use disc and other media, We DON'T own any digital media like we may think.
I know first hand we can lose 10's or thousands of dollars in digital items.
about 4 years now i was banned from steam for use there trading system and was traded stolen items and all party's where banned. my account value at time was about 12000 in games and about 5000 in steam items. they changed there TOS right before this big ban of a few people and here was then nothing we can do but hope one day we can work with them to un ban us witch i have been trying to do as i do not have money to get laywers all legal action.
so no it is not good idea to buy digital game moveis cd's
Some will argue that physical discs/books/etc. are less secure than digital ones like you might have on Vudu or Google Play because they can be scratched, broken, stolen, ruined in a house fire, etc. But in extreme cases, they're covered by your insurance. The scenario like you laid out is putting all your faith an a company to have your back, not stab you in it.
Its true, you never really own anything you buy and access from a cloud service, and they can change the TOS on you overnight or simply go out of business and you lose everything.
I'm very sorry to hear about your experience with Steam, that really sucks.