Gaming’s all‑digital future doesn’t include “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” and “Pikmin 2” — Seth Larson sethmlarson.dev

The core problem is that digital games are licenses, which forces an ongoing relationship between you and the owner of the media. And because there’s an ongoing relationship with you, any ongoing licensing relationships that the media owner has also affect you and your games. If a license for any media that is part of the game expires or is affected, then the developer must take action to remediate the “issue” in the game.