Yet major companies keep forcing digital sales pretendig physical media is something  from the past. The truth: bigger $ cuts is software distribuiton, less spendings on resources for the same selling price, abolition of second hand marketing (aka total monopoly over sales) and a "legal" protection against unfinished/broken games that might be patched later (or just abandoned as they are). You said it: we own the rights to a license... we dont own the product and it can be taken from us at any time or changed as companies see fit (aka: inclusion of microtransactions, etc). I can say i OWN all my physical copies and can play those games anytime i want they and exactly how i bought them, no shenanigans attached.