The traditional indie publishing path is full of gates. You need a Steam developer account (with its review process), a publisher willing to fund and market your game, or enough personal savings to self-publish and hope the algorithm notices you. Permissionless indie publishing on blockchain platforms eliminates all of that. A solo developer writes their game, deploys it to a smart contract, and it is immediately available to every player on the network. No pitch decks, no publisher negotiations, no storefront approval processes, no geographic restrictions. The smart contract handles payments, ownership, and distribution automatically. This does not mean marketing becomes unnecessary (discovery is still the hardest problem in gaming), but it means the act of publishing itself is frictionless. The developer's only dependency is their own ability to ship.