I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.
steam pros: a store that always has a sale or big holiday sale right around the corner, a social network, a library for game info and game modding, and a trophy case etc.
what was amazon offering? full priced games, no sales that beat steams (a free game offer now and then only if you give them $140 a year and forget about it), and shitty cloud streaming of few games? so they tried nothing actually meaningful, were all out of ideas, but shocked they lost
oh and also on a platform notorious for making e-books unable to work on pcs, forcing their proprietary hardware for a PDF. and now they’re actually going in and changing/censoring whats written in books without authors consent.
Much like Epic, they also did free games for people with Amazon Prime, but they undercut that by offering free games on other platforms as well.
Not that I’m complaining, but nothing to make themselves stand out.
not like epic, epic offers free games, Prime’s games are paid for by subscription.
Doesn’t Prime give away GoG games?
don’t you have to pay for prime? then its not free.
Yes, but you keep the game even if you cancal prime. As opposed to e.g. PlayStation Plus where you loose access to the free games when you cancel your subscription.
You are twisting it a bit. Amazon is not censoring books (yet). It just made impossible to transfer books from the Kindle to a PC.
i wish i was, if you’d watch the video he cites and reads a list of examples.
Pretty ballsy to put up a long LinkedIn post that boils down to “I am incompetent and should not be hired under any circumstances.”
Not when you’re retired
Who would’ve imagined given your disaster apps like the Appstore and your shitty “free app” giveaways. Even the FAQs you posted after shutting down the service were purposely vague and irresolute.
Of course I will consume digital products from you again! Said fucking no one.
Also it was just brazenly clear they never talked to gamers and were aiming for a nonexistent customer. Cloud based gaming (i think that’s what they were trying to sell) might attract a few people, but it’s obviously a bad idea and it was clearly being phoned in as part of a “we have decided this is what we will tell thr customer to want” type deal.
Do nothing. Win.
I do like steam
I’ll take all the free Amazon and Epic games. I’ve never bought a game from either one but they are 95% of my collection.
correction you never bought from epic, you’ve paid 15 a month for amazons.
nothings ever free if there’s a subscription fee
Yes, but in my case I pay Prime for the shipping and the shows. Not for the games, I don’t even care about them, I just have a hoarder impulse.
paying for a subscription/service doesn’t matter what you do or want from it, you’re still paying for everything included. thats like ordering a combo meal and saying “i only paid for the food and not the drink. that i still get… with the combo…”
I knew they were trying to compete, but at the end of the day fuck bezos. Useless shit on the world.
Amazon who? Never heard of them.
It’s a rainforest, I think.
I thought it was a matriarchal warrior society?
Some book website that thought it would branch out into games for some reason
Amazon tried getting into game production as well and seems to have middling results at best. Having the financial backing is significant, but it doesn’t guarantee success.
The only launcher I use the same amount if not more is gog.com. Give me those good old games.
I use gog, but fuck the launcher. Fuck all launchers. An icon on desktop is all I want.
Thankfully it’s easy to get no matter the storefront.
GoG is just the best. They don’t have all the nice things Steam has, like workshop for example, but they compensate for it by actually selling you a game, not just renting it out with drm.
GOG providing installers is absolutely amazing.
Maybe it’s nice on windows, but on other systems, got still relies on steam.
GOG + Lutris
Lutris is just a pain compared to proton. I’m not going to say that its terrible anymore but 90% of the games that I play regularly on steam just work straight out of the box.
It’s not as if gamers could smell the stench of corporate greed
There’s also this thing that happens where, as a whole, we’ll just act capriciously.
I don’t know if it’s true of younger gamers but my generation seems to really choose at random whether we like your product or want you to die in a fire. Any fishy behavior can tip that scale pretty quickly, and if we already recognize a brand, and it’s not one of our arbitrarily Chosen Few, then we might not even give you a chance. Just because we know the name, and that’s already a strike against you.
I love your optimism, but looking at the current trends of preorders, microtransactions, gacha games, … Most gamers don’t care about corporate greed and dive into it head first…
Hopefully Amazon doesn’t buy steam now.
Valve is a private company with no debts. No reason to sell to anyone.
Mountains of cash is a reason to sell. Like basically that’s the reason of capitalism you know how companies operate.
Valve is worth $10 billion and Gabe Newell owns >50% of it.
Bezos is worth 250 billion homie. It would be like buying a cheap car for him.
Unfortunately, every man has a price.
I’m hoping Valve, a relatively small company that is sitting on what i imagine is gamings biggest revenue stream, will choose to keep the company private.
The reason Valve is so great is because it’s a private company. I hope they’ll never sell out.
Huh, did they make an alternative I don’t know about?
Tim Sweeney shit on Linux gamers enough that I refused to ever give Epic a penny
Gaben should sue Epic Games for monopolistic business practices - Epic keep making bad decisions that leave gamers with no good choice but Steam
That would wind up being one of those court cases lawyers love citing wherever they get the chance
They came out of the gate with anti consumer bullshit in the form of exclusivity deals. Trust was shattered before they even got going.
They were competing?
I once playtested their MMO, I believe it was called “New World”. It sucked balls. Didn’t realize they were also trying to get going with game distribution.
It has improved but it feels like someone made LOTR The Two Towers game from the 2000s into a mmo.
It had a somewhat interesting combat system for an MMO, but there were a TON of glaring gameplay and balance issues that essentially guaranteed the game would be dead after a month or two.
People kept finding exploits to fuck the economy so they kept turning off trading which made it difficult to progress. I think my issue was lack of storage and you needed money to get more if I remember right. I got bogged down with inventory management and never touched it again.
