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.

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, 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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I just installed all the free games I got from Amazon before deleting my account and they’re all DRM free…

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Most of the games that Amazon give away are GOG codes lol

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GOG codes are the absolute best.

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Well wipe my ass backwards and call me biscuit; I have been informed today.

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Yeah I found that out too and have been cashing in

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Steam 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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Which means that’s an area where they could’ve tried to set themselves apart from Steam.

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Those are terms set by the games publishers, Steam and other platforms pass them on to the customer. The only platform big enough to strongarm publishers to not do that is Steam, but it would definitely make some publishers pull out of Steam completely.

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Fuck off Amazon

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Apologies, 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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