This pile of whatever was quite the unpleasant read. There is so much wrong here I am tempted to waste my time in response. Gamespot.com was wrong to expose the public to Jordan Ramée. Please do not do this again.

If you buy your games on day one, then digital is comparable to disc in price. You obviously have money to burn, and you end up with Fallout 76 when you thought you were getting a real Fallout game. Double burn. Digital prices stay high for years, even though the competing disc medium has dropped in price considerably as competing retailers look to move old stock. Buying a used game disc is even cheaper. You can't buy used digital or borrow digital to test a game first. When you see how Microsoft maintains prices with the competition of the disc market, just imagine the future when Microsoft has no competition. And when the servers that you rely on stop supporting your game, oh well, you should have seen that coming. I keep all my game hardware & software, because the future is inevitable but not as pretty as some think.

My biggest complaint about the Xbox One is that many things that should work offline do not. Microsoft has no desire to fix this.

Will the Internet be universal and free in the future? Definitely not.

Will I be without cable and the Internet in the future? Considering the cost, yes.