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Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 2 days ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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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.

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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 110 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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?

🤔

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

GOG codes are the absolute best.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah I found that out too and have been cashing in

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] missingno@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

I just installed all the free games I got from Amazon before deleting my account and they're all DRM free...

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck off Amazon

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Apologies, I should have added the sarcasm tag. /gen

Case in point is that Amazon will try everything for profit except not be cunts