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Steam is pretty much synonymous with PC gaming these days, and “no Steam, no buy” isn’t just a ‘mentality’, it’s a pragmatic choice for many of us who don’t live in the US and don’t like paying 10% of our monthly income for something that only costs 1% of an American’s median monthly income. This is because Steam prices things differently per region, and shows me the prices in my own local currency.No other storefront shows me prices in Philippine Peso, with the exception of G2A, and I’m sure as shit not going to buy from them if I have any other choice. So it’s basically “no Steam, no buy” for me. So as far as online sales go, Steam simply offers a better service than the competition, which affects the industry by shifting online sales its way.Also, selling on Steam nets developers greater revenues than going through a publisher, and buying games online is much more convenient than buying a boxed copy at a brick-and-mortar store, which would be my only other alternative otherwise. So Steam (as well as other online-only storefronts) trumps the brick-and-mortar competition as well as the physical-copy industry, in one fell swoop.Hence when customers say they won’t buy something unless it’s sold on Steam, it’s very likely that most developers will crank a Steam version out, regardless of what kind of game they’re making†.† It used to be the case that you couldn’t find many MMO’s on Steam. Now it’s inundated with tons of MMO’s.

Sure. You can do anything you wish. You can run an art gallery strictly online. You can run an art gallery in a different space every month. You can do whatever your heart desires - because the word “can” means “is it posssible”?However, I suspect that your actual question is not “is it possible to run an art gallery” in this way, but rather, “is it feasible to run an art gallery in this way?” or to put it another way, “is it a reasonable business proposition to run an art gallery without having a permanent physical space?” And this is a very different question than the one that you have asked.My answer to you would be that it might be possible to run a completely online art gallery IF you are selling some very, very specialized kind of inexpensive art AND if you were willing to dump a great deal of attention and energy into promoting the heck out of it. And by a “great deal”, I mean massively promote it on websites and social media, many of which would cost you money for placements. Otherwise you would simply disappear into the great void.In general, at this point in time, most online sales consist of a)very low-priced art, b)very high-priced (multi-million) seriously famous name artist’s work, or c) art sold to already established gallery clientele. Outside of these categories, art doesn’t sell terribly well online.There are online sites that claim sales, but investigation shows that almost no artists are able to make anything like full-time life-supporting income from online sales unless their work is within these parameters. These limitations also translate to the efforts of galleries, few of which sell primarily online, except to existing established clientele. Most galleries estimate their maximum online sales at about 50%, and often primarily use web efforts to convert clients from online to bricks and mortar transactions.Therefore, you can absolutely run an art gallery without a physical space. But should you? In my view, not without an extremely well researched business plan that takes the great risks into account. Because it would be very similar to jumping off a high cliff into a raging river. You might survive. But then again, you might not.

Question: Will shopping malls ever have their glory days back?No, they won’t.Why?Online shopping - This is big business, and it’s only going to get bigger. There’s no way that most shopping malls can compete with online retailers who don’t have the brick and mortar and employee costs that traditional stores did.An aging population - Malls need families and children to patronize to remain open. An older population on a fixed income makes fewer purchases and definitely would only rarely go to the mall.The movie industry is changing - A movie theater was often an anchor for many malls. It lured in people who then might have gone browsing or shopping. As the number of movie theaters decreases due to online streaming, the malls that they anchored will first suffer, and then close.The giants are falling, or have fallen - The huge chain stores that anchored malls are going away, or are already gone. Sears, Carsons, and dozens of other stores have shuttered, while JCPenney’s is going to be de-listed by the New York Stock Exchange and Macy’s is nearly on life support. While some of these could be replaced by smaller or regional chains, even those retailers are hurting. The malls depended upon big stores anchoring a collection of smaller retailers, and that’s no longer the way the retail business is going.Infrastructure costs are going to kill many of them - Most malls were built from the late 1960s until the mid 1990s. They require huge investments in their infrastructure and the money to do that just isn’t there. A mall near me tore down its Sears, and apparently someone “forgot” that asbestos was used during its construction. It’s demolition costs almost tripled as a result. Malls are old and they are in need of major interior and exterior maintenance.Malls were always a short term prospect as when the Baby Boomers reached their dotage, they were unlikely to travel to them for shopping even if online sales hadn’t taken a huge chunk of their business. We are likely seeing the “middle of the end” of the shopping mall