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>I don't see why competent studios like Blizzard/BioWare/Id could not simply self-publish their games related to this is how the games are managed once installed as well. Each studio is moving towards each having their own "Hub" for their games. Usually it is referred to as a "Launcher", but I dont think it is going to end there. For example, Blizzard has "Battle.net". You open battlenet, log in to battle net, and then select a game to play from your battlenet library. Games I used to be able to just launch from Steam, now open up a separate UI where I have to login and launch the game from there (Larion Studios). I imagine a future where I come home from work, login to my housing account, login to my computer, login to the 1 of 5+ games marketplaces to access my purchased library, select the game i want to play, login to the publishers account, login to my game studio account, login to my game-specific user account, login to the 3rd party server running the game instance backend for my session, then download a 32gb update and not be able to play until tomorrow |