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, 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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Well wipe my ass backwards and call me biscuit; I have been informed today.
Steam doesn’t give customers permanent ownership of their games. Its extremely rare, but game licenses do occasionally get revoked on Steam.
Which means that’s an area where they could’ve tried to set themselves apart from Steam.
I didn’t even notice they tried to take on Steam.
Ethan Evans desperately trying to keep his job as VP of Prime Gaming:
No they didn’t.
I never saw a simple program with a clean store front and no bullshit.
I mean, they didn’t try making a good game store.
