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Having something tangible can have perks. Steam bans you. Thousands lost. Online service shuts down. Games lost. I can still fire up this here super Nintendo... And nobody can tell me when it's going to shut down and stop working.
One of the reasons I prefer to buy on gog. I can just save all my purchases to an external hard drive