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Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems' (www.pcgamer.com)

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I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

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[-] BillWigly@kbin.earth 7 points 3 months ago

Do nothing. Win.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Huh, did they make an alternative I don't know about?

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

I knew they were trying to compete, but at the end of the day fuck bezos. Useless shit on the world.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] arc@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

You can see why Amazon's efforts suck just by using it. That isn't to say I defend Steam, or Epic, or GOG, or UPlay, or Origin, or Battle.net, or Microsoft Store because they all suck. They suck for existing as separate things that all do the same thing but each eating 500Mb of space on my computer.

The ideal situation would be a federated platform where everyone shares a single sign on, everyone shares the same update, backup & restore mechanisms, everyone can join the same lobbies and matchmaking. But that's too sensible.

[-] Maltese_Liquor@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Or they stop trying to lock people in with exclusive games and instead attempt to actually compete by the quality of the service. I know it will never happen but I can dream.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

I went to their website, it reminded me of AWS.

At least prime video looks half decent.

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