I think if they dropped the purchase price that currently sits on top of the subscription price then it would become scary. I don't know if those financials wou

I think if they dropped the purchase price that currently sits on top of the subscription price then it would become scary. I don't know if those financials would work out, but it would be compelling. Note that I say scary. I'm not even a game developer, but I am terrified of the implications of centralized, ownership-less gaming. Independent game preservation would disappear overnight. Things that end up in licensing hell could be retroactively removed from the face of the earth. Indie developers would be even more at the mercy of publishers and gatekeepers than they already are. Of course it would be twice as bad for Google to be that streaming company, given their general detachment from and lack of understanding of games culture. But I won't support even the streaming efforts of Microsoft and others. Having it become the de-facto distribution model would be a bad thing for developers, and a bad thing for people who like games.