You can have both, convenience and DRM-free games via something like GOG installer packages. It’s even relatively easy to patch them to work on modern systems. It would be best if the updates were present in the installers, but you got to start somewhere.
You can’t have that with optical discs or Nintendo style DRM’d broken SD cards.
You don’t need physical media at all. You can still buy MP3 / FLACs without being tied to a streaming provider (it’s pretty universal at least with electronic music).
You can have both, convenience and DRM-free games via something like GOG installer packages. It’s even relatively easy to patch them to work on modern systems. It would be best if the updates were present in the installers, but you got to start somewhere.
You can’t have that with optical discs or Nintendo style DRM’d broken SD cards.
You don’t need physical media at all. You can still buy MP3 / FLACs without being tied to a streaming provider (it’s pretty universal at least with electronic music).