My ISP left me without Internet service this whole week. From monday to friday's afternoon. And to my surprise I discovered that, aside from the games I hadn't downloaded before being kicked offline for a week, I couldn't play a lot of titles I already had downloaded and that those I could, I had to go through a process to activate them. Epic Games Store refused to work for a while while being offline, Ubisoft Store was okay, but it needed some offline registration process (or something like that), EA Desktop just refused to work and, well, Steam worked well, but those games that hadn't been sync to the cloud just didn't start because of this.
I ended up so frustrated and fed up with all the struggle I had to go through to start some games that I turned off the PC and went to the living room downstairs just to play some physical PS3 titles. I'm serious.
Internet is working okay as of right now, so all my PC features are working with no problem. But this week made me remember just how more convenient console gaming is. The console just works. It also reminded me of the convenience of physical media. I may not have the patches or access to the DLC on some games when I insert the disc in an Internetless environment, but I can actually play the games.
It's gotten me thinking...