Considering that physical is still being sold by the truck loads and more and more companies are getting into these “limited run physical prints”, nah a lot of people care. Why are you defending the losing of options? There is literally no good reason to remove a disc drive. You are actively promoting having less control over your games.
It shrinks every year, stop trying to make it sound like it's making a comeback. I haven't barely touched a disk in 10 years and don't miss it one bit. Why?
- All my games are available to me at any time
- They can be played on 2 consoles at the same time - this cannot be understated
- Multiple games on multiple systems simultaneously without running to see which room the disk is in or having to buy 3 copies.
- I can see at a glance and load any of the 400+ games I own. Search by name, release date, size, etc.
- They never get scratched
- They never get stolen
- They never fail to get returned when borrowed
- I can always easily re-load them (yes with disk you do this too but then usually do an large update as well.......)
- Games are on sale all the time on the estore, sometimes the physical store is cheaper, sometimes the electronic version is cheaper, it's a wash. How much you want to bet all the games in the Wal-mart and the Gamestop black friday flyer are the exact same price online?
- I imagine quick resume becomes slow resume if you are finding and swapping disks in between..........if you know what I mean
So for many people, having a disk drive literally has zero value, it's just one more part that will never be used.
The very minor problem of not owning the disk if the world comes to an end doesn't faze me, nor do I care if they "take it away" in 20 years. By then I won't care.
And yes I know I lose out on the trade in value but I tend to buy them on sale anyhow, and honestly most of the people on here who champion disk version claim it to play it a long time later so I don't get that argument for them.
The pros far, far outweigh the cons.