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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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[โ€“] ryathal 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They offer keys which allows for third party sellers to exist, and there are a handful of legitimate sites that sell keys for steam.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but where do you have to go to redeem those keys and then subsequently have to open their program every time you wish to use your purchase (which you don't own). Steam is very good at promoting itself and locking people into their platform, it's a constant free advertisement program where they have total control and no competition.

I understand the "Steam is fine" position, but I also wish we weren't always turning to this ONE supplier for a goods or service because it always hits the hardest when corruption takes over. Would love for these threads to be filled with multiple conversations of all these great different gaming services everyone personally loves for one reason or another, instead of comparing the crappiness between these few huge mega-corporations.