I see this as the same issue I have with any other Internet platform right now, gaming or not: the relationship is completely backwards. Rather than services r

I see this as the same issue I have with any other Internet platform right now, gaming or not: the relationship is completely backwards. Rather than services referencing your data, for some cryptographically-secure owned-by-you data store, you give them things to store that are entirely outside your control. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, data is typically really expensive (time-wise at the very least) to create. It takes years to build up gaming history, social network points, comment histories and bookmarks, etc. Instead of that being irrevocably yours, instead you’re just one forgotten password or inept cloud provider mistake away from permanently losing the results of years of effort.