How are owning digital media and physical media different? I know we don’t technically “own” our digital games, or maybe that was a big misunderstanding on my part. Thanks!
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you can’t sell digital purchases on most platforms.
but lets make it simple.
buy game for ps4 and it’s a disc and you can sell to me
buy game for ps4 digitally and you cannot sell to me.
Sony bans you for anything and you essentially lose access to that game you spent money on.
if you get banned with a physical game, you can just make a new account or sell the game. it’s still yours.
the big point of contention is once you buy some thing digitally you can lose access to it on the companies whim with no recovery. potentially thousands of dollars can be lost if you are banned for any reason or if the company decides to shut down servers etc.
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