Posted May 24, 2019
I think he means it's less reliable for non-owners who didn't manage to buy it before removal in that with older disc based games, you've usually still got the option of legally grabbing a 2nd hand copy off Ebay. Eg, I can still buy No One Lives Forever, Dune, etc, discs even years after distribution of those games has ceased. With digital distribution, there's no 2nd hand sales and thus no legal option of non-owners obtaining it the day after it gets officially pulled from digital stores. Digital distribution (ie, locking games to individual people) may be more convenient for "stable" titles, but lack of a 2nd hand market has also ended up a lot more fragile for games at risk of being removed.
Post edited May 24, 2019 by AB2012