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Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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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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[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Steam? Set your sights lower. Maybe try to beat GOG or the EA launcher.

[-] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

They'd have to do something really crazy to have me pick Amazon over GOG!

[-] qbus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's basically like G-Force now for a selection of GOG and epic games

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