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Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam
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wrote 22 days ago last edited by> Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.
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> Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.wrote 22 days ago last edited byI didn't even notice they tried to take on Steam.
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> Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.wrote 22 days ago last edited byCloud streaming is not a replacement for steam.
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> Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.wrote 22 days ago last edited byTried everything except building a nice service that doesn't get in the way and that works, without enshittification and monetisation everywhere.
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> Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.wrote 22 days ago last edited byEverything, including: - giving a shit about the customer and having them permanently own their own games, even DRM-free like GOG? - Not forcing online connectivity to access the library? - Not shoving ads and spyware into the rest of the Amazon platform? - Appealing ethically by paying all employees a living wage? - Prioritizing innovation in expanding native Linux compatibility?
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> Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.wrote 22 days ago last edited byBeat the competition, then enshittify yourself while your customer base sticks with you is the strategy used in all Amazon products. Amazon is the last storefront I would want to sell games in the scale of Steam.
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> Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.wrote 22 days ago last edited byEthan Evans desperately trying to keep his job as VP of Prime Gaming: 
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Everything, including: - giving a shit about the customer and having them permanently own their own games, even DRM-free like GOG? - Not forcing online connectivity to access the library? - Not shoving ads and spyware into the rest of the Amazon platform? - Appealing ethically by paying all employees a living wage? - Prioritizing innovation in expanding native Linux compatibility?wrote 22 days ago last edited bySteam doesn't give customers permanent ownership of their games. Its extremely rare, but game licenses do occasionally get revoked on Steam.
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> Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.wrote 22 days ago last edited byNobody is going to overtake steam without being better. Corporate suits are also too out of touch to even come close
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Everything, including: - giving a shit about the customer and having them permanently own their own games, even DRM-free like GOG? - Not forcing online connectivity to access the library? - Not shoving ads and spyware into the rest of the Amazon platform? - Appealing ethically by paying all employees a living wage? - Prioritizing innovation in expanding native Linux compatibility?wrote 22 days ago last edited byFuck off Amazon
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> Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.wrote 22 days ago last edited byThey all tried. They all failed. Same with video streaming platforms vs Netflix.
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Fuck off Amazonwrote 22 days ago last edited byApologies, I should have added the sarcasm tag. /gen Case in point is that Amazon will try everything for profit except not be cunts
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Everything, including: - giving a shit about the customer and having them permanently own their own games, even DRM-free like GOG? - Not forcing online connectivity to access the library? - Not shoving ads and spyware into the rest of the Amazon platform? - Appealing ethically by paying all employees a living wage? - Prioritizing innovation in expanding native Linux compatibility?wrote 22 days ago last edited byI just installed all the free games I got from Amazon before deleting my account and they're all DRM free...
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Nobody is going to overtake steam without being better. Corporate suits are also too out of touch to even come closewrote 22 days ago last edited byNobody is going to overtake Steam even if they're better. People don't want to have multiple libraries to deal with so you see them brag about paying for games to have them on Steam even though the game has been free on other platforms... Sometimes they even have claimed them and will still spend money to have them on Steam.
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They all tried. They all failed. Same with video streaming platforms vs Netflix.wrote 22 days ago last edited byNetflix is utter crap. Way over the other side of the enshittification fence. They only subsist due to user capture. They were first thus everyone seems to have an account. More akin to Facebook to social networks than steam to online videogame stores.
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Netflix is utter crap. Way over the other side of the enshittification fence. They only subsist due to user capture. They were first thus everyone seems to have an account. More akin to Facebook to social networks than steam to online videogame stores.wrote 22 days ago last edited byYes but none of the others have usurped it. They all were on Netflix, left to make their own platforms and are finding out the hard way that running a video platform is not cheap nor easy. Some shuttered and returned to Netflix.
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Yes but none of the others have usurped it. They all were on Netflix, left to make their own platforms and are finding out the hard way that running a video platform is not cheap nor easy. Some shuttered and returned to Netflix.wrote 22 days ago last edited byAgain, not comparable. Prime video, Disney+ and Max are all similar in subscribers size to Netflix. Steam is ten times larger than GOG in number of active users and twice as large as Epic.
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Everything, including: - giving a shit about the customer and having them permanently own their own games, even DRM-free like GOG? - Not forcing online connectivity to access the library? - Not shoving ads and spyware into the rest of the Amazon platform? - Appealing ethically by paying all employees a living wage? - Prioritizing innovation in expanding native Linux compatibility?wrote 22 days ago last edited byMost of the games that Amazon give away are GOG codes lol
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Most of the games that Amazon give away are GOG codes lolwrote 22 days ago last edited byWell wipe my ass backwards and call me biscuit; I have been informed today.
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Nobody is going to overtake steam without being better. Corporate suits are also too out of touch to even come closewrote 22 days ago last edited byNo publicly traded company can compete with a well run private company. Infinitely growing profits breaks everything. Never take a company public if you can help it. It may even be preferable to shutter it if that is the only other option. Having stupid amounts of money is cool and all, but it does nothing useful. Money is only a tool if you actually use it... a golden hammer sitting on a shelf does no one any good.