Have they tried being trustworthy, adding value, and not fucking over customers?
Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam
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Sabata11792@ani.social 1 day ago
kautau@lemmy.world 1 day ago
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 day ago
But we tried everything BUT that.
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To disrupt stream, you’d need to be better than Steam. Also, what am I gonna do with my existing 1000 games in steam? I DON’T WANT 5 GAME MANAGERS.
All these companies think people want 10 streaming services, 5 steams, 7 spotifys. WE DONT. We just want 1 that does everything we want.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 day ago
One of the only acception I have to the rule of multiple game managers is with emulation. For some reason I cannot stand having something like Emulation Station or anything else but for buying games, Steam is the absolute king with their platform.
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve embraced it, I use playnite to launch all my games. Regardless of which platform they are on
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Maybe they should have just made a really great service that people would love?
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I like prime gaming, sure I haven’t actually bought anything but Amazon has given me a decent gog library and an ok Amazon games one.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
LMFAO, I love when someone says they tried everything when it’s so blatantly obvious they didn’t really try anything.
Both Epic and Amazon seemed to believe that if you gave out enough free games then Steam would just… Disappear? Really really dumb.
Neither company has invested any time into making their launcher any good. They haven’t invested any time into making their ecosystem feature rich like Steam. They have just given away a bunch of games and had sales and hoped that magic would take care of the rest.
Valve doesn’t even have to try to beat the competition when the competition doesn’t put any effort in.
GoG Galaxy is the only decent alternative launcher I’ve used and it’s being maintained (seemingly) by one guy who only works one day a year. It’s not as good as Steam by a long shot, but far far better than any of the launchers that come from companies WAY WAY bigger and wealthier. Even the itch.io launcher is better!!!
Blizzard, Amazon, Epic, EA, Ubisoft, and Rockstar (and more) all have their own launchers and not a single one is decent or necessary. Why make such an inferior product when Steam already exists?
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Fighting Steam as it stands now is like trying to fight an uphill battle on an 80° incline with ice covering the whole hill. It’s possible, but I doubt we’ll see anyone able to dethrone Steam so long as Valve keeps their principles and morals about not absolutely enshittifying everything to death on their end.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
No they haven’t because not once did I ever consider buying a game from their service. Mainly because I don’t know about it.
ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Maybe try not being Amazon first?
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I’ve never even heard of prime gaming, if they wanted to disrupt steam they should have tried harder.
Regardless, good, fuck Amazon I’m glad this failed.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
All they gotta do is copy steam features 1:1 and clean up the ui a bit. I’m not married to steam but no one wanna copy all their features let alone improve it.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So many of their most beloved features are crazily dev intensive to maintain, and critically they’re not static. Amazon never really updates their consumer interfaces, steam is constantly adding new features and reworking their old ones across all their UX. Its just not economically feasible to pop in and replace them if you’re a publicly traded company, the shareholders would look at the maintenance costs alone and faint
vane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe it’s because they don’t have VP of Steam at Valve ?
MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I forgot they even existed.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I know we all want to clown on this because amazon sucks and we all stan Steam as our corporate overlords.
But there are actually a lot of REALLY good insights in the original linkedin post. Particularly the reality that anything that competes with Steam needs to be
It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well.
Epic is a shitshow and barely competent on the store front. But they took a very smart approach of starting from basics and adding what people want… and people want their video game store to be facebook.
Maybe if amazon had more tightly coupled that to twitch it could have worked but it is clear that coupling any services is a shitshow for them (remember when we could do actual watch parties if people bought stuff on amazon video?).
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Was always going to be an uphill battle trying to battle Steam’s monopoly and the Stockholmed G*mers.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 day ago
Valve and I have trust. 20 years of it. They are there, have fair prices, let me play where and when I want, no gotchas, I trust them. Sure tomorrow they could break that trust, but so far they haven’t.
Then Amazon, who has continuously ruined my trust. Adding ads to an ad free prime tier, lying about delivery times, getting shittier and cheaper products on their store, and oh yeah, just being an evil company. And they wonder why I never even looked at their store.
NanoooK@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And Valve is pushing for Linux support, it might not be a major point for most but for me it is.
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s also a plus for me too.
cynar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s more than just pushing for support. They have made a lot of windows only games just work on Linux.
They’ve changed it from “need to release and support Linux” to “zero effort other than not actively fuck up the compatibility layer”. In user land, it’s the same thing. For developers it’s a vast difference.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 day ago
In my two days with linux ive come to really like it, im annoyed at myself for staying with windows for so long and not even trying it. (Cachyos) I prefer everything about gnome and plasma to windows right now. I was just dealing with their garbage ui and random updates for no reason. Its nice having some control.
bier@feddit.nl 1 day ago
For me it’s the reason I started playing games again. Have been using Linux forever, didn’t wanted a dual boot etc. So when games started to work on Linux I stared to buy and play more and more.
Although recently it has mostly been openRTC without steam.