引用自 GrimVoidwalker：

in light of the steam machine and all of the platforms trying to move ALL games to a pure digital world where you need a subcribtion fee just to play them

引用自 GrimVoidwalker：

Might i suggest adding a new option to the platform where next to the play/install bottom or the purchase options add an option where when you buy a digital copy of a game you also include a one time purchase of the physical copy of the game with a big discount.

• What kind of media do they put the games on? Especially considering many games are now 100 GB or more.
  
• Would the game be playable directly from this media? Challenging, considering many games need to be run off an SSD these days, otherwise it would need to be installed.
  
• What kind of cost would it be to create this physical media?
  
• How would they handle distribution of this physical media globally? That would require shipping partners, warehouses, manufacturing, and employees to handle all this.
  
• How would this physical media be protected with DRM? Keep in mind, many publishers only publish on Steam because they're able to use DRM. This is why GOG lacks many games that Steam has.
  
• If this physical media has DRM applied, how would it confirm that it's a legitimate copy? Would it connect to the Internet? How then is it different from just having a license to a digital copy?
  
• The cost to create and ship a physical copy would be much higher than just letting people download it. How would it make sense for them to offer that physical copy with a "big discount"?
  
• With Valve's return policy, how would this apply to physical copies? How would they handle the cost to create and ship that physical copy only to then have to also pay for the owner to ship it back?
  
• What about overstock? Unsold copies would need to be stored somewhere, and that's not free. Keep in mind, a large part of the video game industry crash of the 1980s was due to unsold physical stock piling up.
  
• Would Valve's publishing partners be okay with the inevitable 2nd hand market that would emerge with the presence of physical copies floating around? With the buying and selling of used copies, wouldn't that bring the price of games up, considering that cuts the publisher, the developer, and Steam out of that equation entirely?

引用自 GrimVoidwalker：

now how would i play it you might ask? make a hard disc and/or cartridge reader attachment that plugs into the steam machine for offline play

引用自 GrimVoidwalker：

in light of the steam machine and all of the platforms trying to move ALL games to a pure digital world where you need a subcribtion fee just to play them with a mindset of you will own nothing and will be happy . Might i suggest adding a new option to the platform where next to the play/install bottom or the purchase options add an option where when you buy a digital copy of a game you also include a one time purchase of the physical copy of the game with a big discount. now how would i play it you might ask? make a hard disc and/or cartridge reader attachment that plugs into the steam machine for offline play (side not :also maybe add some rules for companys to make the game offline freandly espically ones that have no co op or pvp elements). i say this because people still value physical media like books and movie DVDs even FOR A GOOD REASON. i believe this is a perfect way to corner the market for the hard copys of games with platforms trying to lock everything behind digital walls so you can never truly own your own games.

引用自 Ferox_Stormdragon：

1. digital and physical licenses are completely separate, digital licenses are stored on servers attached to the players account whereas physical license are on the disc, both versions are non-transferable.