And these idiots wonder why so many of us haven't bought as many games this generation....
We WANT the disks
We WANT finished products
Digital downloads day one have ALWAYS meant that an incomplete and buggy game was shipped.
Discs are an old technology that create compromises which shouldn't be necessary; the digital download after the fact makes more needless work for devs. We will be better off without discs.
People blasting Square Enix for not adding MORE DISCS for MORE COST are part of the problem. Someone saying "You should have a worse profit margin to satisfy me" is a worse customer than a digital customer, as I have pointed out multiple times.
Sure, there was a plausible future where publishers charged limited edition versions with a physical pressing for a premium, like records that cost $40 for a vinyl over $10 for the digital-- but drive manufacturing itself is going away, making that point moot.