I'm a collector, and I love collecting physical copies of games. But at the same time I also really love Steam, and I definitely think digital distribution is going to be playing a much, much larger role in the industry. Even with physical copies we are starting to see it, with things like DLC whereas in the past you would have had to go out and buy a physical expansion disc.

I honestly don't think a lot of gamers care too much about physical copies. Show me some real stats to prove me wrong, but with the popularity of Steam it seems the case. I see most users have around 200+ games in their Steam library. Probably a lot more, actually.

The reason I love Steam is I can get games I would never really buy physically since they have such awesome sales on all the time, and in general the prices are about half the price than at the store here. Hard drive space is no issue, since internal hard drives are incredibly cheap these days. Bandwidth isn't an issue, even in Australia's really expensive climate the Internet I have is incredible and doesn't cost much.

In the three years I've been using Steam I have not once had a single problem with logging on, downloading updates fast, or being able to play any of the games I have.

I'm definitely with Yeargdribble on this one.