Will the physical media get scratched, have bit rot, or no longer have a device it will work in?

At least with a file I can simply back it up, buy a new drive, put it into my server, leave a copy at a friends house and all the other ways we back up our data.

I dobt really care about lending a game, but they can come over and play it if they want.

Selling it seems like more hassle than its worth, and frankly even now we (collective we as in all of us) are simply throwing away DVDs, cds, and until recently older games.

I would rather just know that I have a game I can play anytime forever and that’s that.