On: Valve has mutated from a game developer into a financial middleman

[pjmlp]

GOG is for the 1% Linux desktop market.

[shmerl → pjmlp]

Physical media is for the last century. Even slow thinking incumbent console makers are starting to realize that.

[pjmlp → shmerl]

Physical media survives centuries.

[shmerl → pjmlp]

Not optical disks, which are commonly used for selling such stuff. If you preserve your archives using them, you are in for a nasty surprise. And who sells games on hard drives? So the way it works - you buy digitally, and do a proper back up of your copy using whatever good storage you want. Not optical disks though.

[pjmlp → shmerl]

Surely longer than DRM.

[shmerl → pjmlp]

That's why don't buy it with DRM naturally. You need DRM-free games to preserve them long term. Or otherwise, you'd need to break DRM to do it.