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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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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

steam pros: a store that always has a sale or big holiday sale right around the corner, a social network, a library for game info and game modding, and a trophy case etc.

what was amazon offering? full priced games, no sales that beat steams (a free game offer now and then only if you give them $140 a year and forget about it), and shitty cloud streaming of few games? so they tried nothing actually meaningful, were all out of ideas, but shocked they lost

oh and also on a platform notorious for making e-books unable to work on pcs, forcing their proprietary hardware for a PDF. and now they're actually going in and changing/censoring whats written in books without authors consent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Much like Epic, they also did free games for people with Amazon Prime, but they undercut that by offering free games on other platforms as well.

Not that I'm complaining, but nothing to make themselves stand out.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

not like epic, epic offers free games, Prime's games are paid for by subscription.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't Prime give away GoG games?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

don't you have to pay for prime? then its not free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, but you keep the game even if you cancal prime. As opposed to e.g. PlayStation Plus where you loose access to the free games when you cancel your subscription.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You are twisting it a bit. Amazon is not censoring books (yet). It just made impossible to transfer books from the Kindle to a PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

i wish i was, if you'd watch the video he cites and reads a list of examples.