Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam
Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt 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.
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 don't think they tried releasing a compelling product.
I think their biggest hurdle was that they are owned by Jeff Bezos
Everything, including:
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giving a shit about the customer and having them permanently own their own games, even DRM-free like GOG?
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Not forcing online connectivity to access the library?
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Not shoving ads and spyware into the rest of the Amazon platform?
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Appealing ethically by paying all employees a living wage?
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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...
Fuck off Amazon
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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No they didn't.
I never saw a simple program with a clean store front and no bullshit.
I didn't even notice they tried to take on Steam.
Ethan Evans desperately trying to keep his job as VP of Prime Gaming:
Every single Amazon product is a half-arsed mess off things that barely function. They're basically just a delivery company that charges a percentage of the package value now.
They also charge storage fees to keep your products on their shelf in the warehouse.
Something like 70% of their net income comes from AWS that pretty much runs a huge portion of the internet.
This is why you never really trust anything from a lemmy comment kids.
I mean, they didn’t try making a good game store.
Steam? Set your sights lower. Maybe try to beat GOG or the EA launcher.
They'd have to do something really crazy to have me pick Amazon over GOG!
It's basically like G-Force now for a selection of GOG and epic games
They barely tried at all
Their Luna product seems to be different to Steam. It's a streaming platform like Playstation Now or the Google Stadia one that got shut down.
The other games that they've got on there primarily seem to be DRM-free GOG codes, mixed with some for the Epic store. Maybe they meant they were taking on Steam by boosting their competitors?
Nobody is going to overtake steam without being better. Corporate suits are also too out of touch to even come close
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.
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.
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....
Tried everything except building a nice service that doesn't get in the way and that works, without enshittification and monetisation everywhere.
Cloud streaming is not a replacement for steam.
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.
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.
Prime is better than Netflix imo.
As is Disney Plus.
Prime was tragic for years with terrible interface and content. It’s only recently in the last year or so that it got to a decent level. Disneys content is very good these days, but their interface could still do with some work.
I’m only a subscriber of Disney as their content matches my interests. I despise Amazon so only get a free trial or pay for a month when something like Reacher is on. Netflix own content no longer interests me especially after cancelling half the things I like.
I feel like everyone is missing the point here.