Yet, it does happen. Partly because people are not using them as intended, because they might not be bothered. Or they lend the disk to somebody. Or they move and the disk gets lost or maybe gets damaged during the transportation.WeepingAngels said:I have had hard drives fail from normal use. I have never scratched or broken a disc, never! Scratching/breaking a disc is not something that happens by using it as intended.DoPo said:Erm, what happens if a disk gets scratched beyond readability or it breaks? How is it that only DD is in threat of your game never being playable again, yet a physical copy is seemingly immune to this fate?Hairless Mammoth said:but what happens when the HDD or the whole console goes out.
It's not really an infeasible scenario.
Besides, the scenario suggested was of doom and gloom where several low chance things have to all go wrong at the same time for it to be true. Given the context, a perhaps rare, yet not impossible, scenario is perfectly suitable.