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Message: [QUOTE="NoctemDead, post: 58265, member: 148642"] Having the library from which to download the files again is the service. You don't get this if you buy Dino Crisis on the Dreamcast. GD burns in a fire? No more game for you. You're looking at a positive of the platform that doesn't exist if you buy the original disc, and then saying it's a negative that that additional (free) service can be lost through ToS violations or policy changes. Download the game, burn it to a disc, and you have the exact same physical thing you are talking about with buying a CD-ROM game from 1999. So this is an ideological problem with the copyright system as a whole. That's fine, but completely extraneous in the context of the discussion. What is a company like GOG supposed to do better to, in good faith, provide ongoing and restriction-free access to games which have not been commercially available in years? Before GOG released these games, you could play them via subscription service on the Playstation Network. Is the gaming world now better or worse now that GOG has made this option available? Would it be cool if GOG did physical releases? Surely, but they also have to make a profit to keep doing what they do and need to do what's commercially viable for them. There are companies out there releasing retro and indie games in physical forms. Those should be supported also. Nothing wrong with that. So take the files, put the .exe on a disk and put it in a jewel case on the shelf next to your original CD ROM. What's the functional difference? That can't be taken away (barring theft or some kind of court order, I suppose) and can be physically traded. [/QUOTE]

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