I suspect it'll be too late. There's enough money sloshing around inside the crypto ecosystem for someone to build a crypto friendly steam and I think there'll be demand for such a platform imminently.
One big hit, one CSGO, one pubg and there'll be a competitor to steam that the likes of Epic can only dream of.
You are missing the fact that people who aren't hyped about crypto don't see it as a feature or a reason to switch launcher.
Epic hinged on being able to bring in tons of costumers to the Epic Games Store using Fortnite (A bigger than big hit), but they have not really managed that.
Just like that, a crypto-friendly games store wouldn't be able to bring in enough costumers, even with a really big hit, to touch even the amount of people the Epic Games Store has gotten (freebies definitely helped them).
Epic didn't fundamentally offer anything different from Steam, it's just games that would've otherwise been on Steam that epic bribed to be on epic. That from the outset annoyed a lot of people and the funny thing about fortnite is, the people who play it... only really play it alone. So getting them onboard doesn't necessarily mean they'll buy anything else on epic.
In terms of getting people on board, I expect it'll come down to how much content gets pushed out by streamers and youtubers, if a game's hot on twitch people will likely at least try it, especially since I'd expect most crypto games to go f2p.
> Epic didn't fundamentally offer anything different from Steam
And for the vast majority of gamers, neither does crypto.
> the people who play it... only really play it
And the same would apply for a crypto friendly games store that had a big hit game.
One thing I wasn't aware of, which I only just learned/realized from seeing worried conversations from a game I follow (that incorporates crypto) is that because of all the negative news about crypto, the general public view crypto quite negatively.
I feel like crypto will need to spend a few years as "boring" before it can truly shine.
I don't think crypto will never truly shine. I see two use cases illegal things and remittance/inter-market transfers. Later could be solved, but on other hand demand from regular people is low and existing players like PayPal and credit cards already take care of purchases from commercial entities.
For me it is just bad solution looking for a problem.
One big hit, one CSGO, one pubg and there'll be a competitor to steam that the likes of Epic can only dream of.