Thank you so much for posting and starting a conversation. These issues are all supremely important for the reasons you stated and more. I see multiple opportunity spaces:
- game vending: listing and purchasing copies/licenses to games, versions etc
- Game reviewing: user ratings and testimonies
- Game activity: storing achievements, progress, scores etc
Each of these have new potential in the atmosphere to address real harms in the current ecosystem of payment processors and the Valve monopoly. I also see huge value in preservation possible here. Game activity in the PDS means a game can go away and be revived later and I still have all my save slots. I can bring my save slots cross platform. These are big domains to work with and there are lots of proofs of concept to play with. I look forward to the work and hope to see you at ATmosphereConf this March!