Just copy your library to external storage (USB drive, HDD, or SSD).
I am not against that either, but it can become very expensive pretty quick with the sizes games have today.
I appreciate that you saved yourself by not posting a poll, OP.
I can't believe I'm saying it, but at this point, game key cards are starting to look pretty good. A small cheap physical item that basically confers ownership as a transferable license that can be gifted or resold is the least worst option.
We need guarantees that games we buy will remain ours. Even if it might not happen, the possibility that our access to the games we bought can simply be revoked is unacceptable.
To be honest i don't have a problem with key cards either. It could even be a cd with just the license burned on it, it doesn't matter.
But the key cards do not solve the problem of game preservation and if / when Nintendo decides they are no longer obligated to keep their servers running, key cards are useless.
When it comes to discs
writable media died before production pressed media. I think it's time to face it, discs are slowly going the way of floppy drives in an SSD and cloud connected world. Sucks for ownership but switching to recordable discs isn't going to solve anything. If production of recordables was viable then normal pressed discs would be too. The only solution would be to just charge more for discs vs digital but then I bet people wouldn't put their money where their mouth is in that scenario so it really wouldn't solve anything either and discs would still die.
Unfortunately, there is no easy solution.
I agree, there is no easy solution. Especially when Sony wants to maximize their profits.
There are two main benefits to a physical game distribution:
1. You can sell or lend it.
2. You can be sure that it won't be taken from you due to some licensing issue.
None of what the OP is suggesting helps with either of these two.
1. Once you burn the blu ray, server gets the information and the disc now contains the license.
When you insert the disc on another console, it requires a connection to the internet just for the handshake with the server.
Starting the game on a console that doesn't have the original account set as the main account, removes the license from that account and transfers it to the new one.
Its a disc, with a paired online license.
2. The licensing issue is a very broad term. That can happen with any digital product / service. You can lose access to your email or your bank account, will you stop using them because of this chance?
This is fucking stupid
No offense
But holy shit this was dumb
No it's not, you might not have the capacity to understand the technical part of it, it's ok though.
The "disc" choice has the obvious negatives some people already mentioned. But it doesn't need to be a disc.
They just need to let the user convert their digital license to a physical one, or have it in both forms at the same time but at the very least require a handshake with the server when the physical media enters a console for the first time.
It is technically achievable although it comes with a bit of complexity on their end.
