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Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt 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?
I just installed all the free games I got from Amazon before deleting my account and they're all DRM free... -
Nobody is going to overtake steam without being better. Corporate suits are also too out of touch to even come closeNobody 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.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.
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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.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.
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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.Again, 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?Most 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 lolWell 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 closeNo 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.
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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.I mean, they didn’t try making a good game store.
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Nobody is going to overtake steam without being better. Corporate suits are also too out of touch to even come closeAlso a company that isn't primarily a gaming company isn't going to overtake them.
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Most of the games that Amazon give away are GOG codes lolGOG codes are the absolute best.
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No 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.Yeah even apple is talking about potentially introducing ads into maps when their whole positioning of premium price has meant premium product and experience. But the pressure of continual stock increases means company has to keep chasing exponential growth as opposed to being content with sustainable growth.
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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.They barely tried at all
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Well wipe my ass backwards and call me biscuit; I have been informed today.Yeah I found that out too and have been cashing in
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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.Steam? Set your sights lower. Maybe try to beat GOG or the EA launcher.
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Nobody 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.Steam will stay great so long as they stay a private company. It's the enshitification of going public and appeasing boardmembers and shareholders that ruin companies like Valve. I hope GabeN chooses a great successor when he decides to step down. Hoping for another 27 years of awesome.
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Also a company that isn't primarily a gaming company isn't going to overtake them.No book store could ever take on a retail store....
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Steam will stay great so long as they stay a private company. It's the enshitification of going public and appeasing boardmembers and shareholders that ruin companies like Valve. I hope GabeN chooses a great successor when he decides to step down. Hoping for another 27 years of awesome.You realize that the cut they're taking ends up being used to pay for a yacht collection, right? They don't need board members and shareholders to enrich the few at the expense of the many and to take anti diversity decisions...
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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.Which means that's an area where they could've tried to set themselves apart from Steam.
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They all tried. They all failed. Same with video streaming platforms vs Netflix.Prime is better than Netflix imo. As is Disney Plus.
