The great thing about video game e-shops is it turns game archival and preservation for older systems from very difficult to literally impossible.
Like presumably, eventually even obscure games will have physical copies show up on ebay or at a thrift store somewhere; but once the download servers get taken down there's no way to ever access many games again.
@nytpu Oh, I see. I only have Xbox One and I have physical copies of all the games I own. I think it still has to check something online, download updates, etc. So all these discs are nothing more than shiny nice artifacts 😅
@m0xee I was talking particularly about consoles because of how locked-down they are but yeah, GOG letting you have offline, DRM-free installers is amazing.