Posted April 13, 2016
CharlesGrey: But Steam as a mandatory requirement tied to retail game copies needs to die a slow, fiery death. Or maybe a quick one... As long as there's plenty of fire.
timppu: I'm pretty sure that will happen... but not in a way that you probably hoped for. Steam will stop being a mandatory requirement to PC retail games simply because the PC retail (physical) games will become a thing of a past. Console retail games will probably exist longer.
So, while a shift towards a pure digital distribution market seems plausible for the future, it's not going to happen soon.