Absolutely. This ties in to the whole Stop Killing Games saga, and my comment was long enough. Suffice it to say widespread push of cryptographically locked-down gaming clients and distros will not make that battle any easier for the little guy in the Linux world.
A more federated future for online gaming is theoretically possible, but seeing how much the Fediverse struggles with the adoption of alternatives to software that most people consider bare basics, I don't think it's the future that the arrow of entropy points to.
A more federated future for online gaming is theoretically possible, but seeing how much the Fediverse struggles with the adoption of alternatives to software that most people consider bare basics, I don't think it's the future that the arrow of entropy points to.