With subscriptions, control is higher for publishers, so the only thing they need to do is making it a better deal than owning a game. As an important milestone

With subscriptions, control is higher for publishers, so the only thing they need to do is making it a better deal than owning a game. As an important milestone, digital distribution paved the way so now people don't expect actual ownership over games, it's enough to be able to pay and then download and run. Along this system, I think an indie scene will remain that distributes games as traditional downloadable software. As long as we'll have computers able to do generic computation of course.