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?

Beat 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.

Ethan Evans desperately trying to keep his job as VP of Prime Gaming: 

Steam doesn't give customers permanent ownership of their games. Its extremely rare, but game licenses do occasionally get revoked on Steam.

Nobody is going to overtake steam without being better. Corporate suits are also too out of touch to even come close

Fuck off Amazon

They all tried. They all failed. Same with video streaming platforms vs Netflix.

Apologies, I should have added the sarcasm tag. /gen Case in point is that Amazon will try everything for profit except not be cunts

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I mean, they didn’t try making a good game store.

Also a company that isn't primarily a gaming company isn't going to overtake them.

GOG codes are the absolute best.

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.