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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days 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?).