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Full headline, because the whole thing didn't fit up there: "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'"
"That's not to say the assessment that Valve punches above its weight is inaccurate. ... It's more the naive fascination Evans has with the idea that Steam is good that baffles me."
It's not even so much that Steam is good, really. There is an awful lot about Steam that I absolutely loathe.[1] Steam was simply lucky enough to be the first (well, no, but it was the first to actually get huge, anyway). It's just that, so far, to this day, everything that came after and tried to ride on Steam's coattails has been and is absolute rancid dogshit.
At least this Evans guy is, kind of, being self-reflective about Amazon's failure in particular, sort of (even if most of it is just "inspirational LinkedIn corporate speech"). Meanwhile, we still have fetid horseshit like Origin/EA App and UPlay (or whatever it's called now) and Epic Gluttonous Shitpile and so many other flavor-of-the-month, Johnny-come-lately digital storefronts still plodding along like they're each the hottest thing since sliced bread (and, well, since Steam), when they're actually worse-than-worthless, each and every one of them.
My own personal history with Steam is that I basically avoided it like the plague, up until the point where a game I wanted to buy was only available on Steam at the time I wanted to buy it. So, I finally bit the bullet and installed Steam. And now, today, I still occasionally might buy a PC game (and PC games are all I buy these days) if it isn't available on Steam (like, say, if it's some retro/nostalgic thing on GOG, or maybe some The Sims related thing on the EA Store, maybe), but much more often than that, I take the view that if it isn't on Steam, it may as well not exist at all (e.g. all the Epic Grotesque Scuzz "exclusives," most of which end up being properly released on the personal computer six months to a year later anyway).
[1] - All you have to do is look at my "steam" tag below to see what I'm talking about (well, the posts that are actually about Steam itself, anyway, and not just about games that happen to be on Steam or whatever).
"That's not to say the assessment that Valve punches above its weight is inaccurate. ... It's more the naive fascination Evans has with the idea that Steam is good that baffles me."
It's not even so much that Steam is good, really. There is an awful lot about Steam that I absolutely loathe.[1] Steam was simply lucky enough to be the first (well, no, but it was the first to actually get huge, anyway). It's just that, so far, to this day, everything that came after and tried to ride on Steam's coattails has been and is absolute rancid dogshit.
At least this Evans guy is, kind of, being self-reflective about Amazon's failure in particular, sort of (even if most of it is just "inspirational LinkedIn corporate speech"). Meanwhile, we still have fetid horseshit like Origin/EA App and UPlay (or whatever it's called now) and Epic Gluttonous Shitpile and so many other flavor-of-the-month, Johnny-come-lately digital storefronts still plodding along like they're each the hottest thing since sliced bread (and, well, since Steam), when they're actually worse-than-worthless, each and every one of them.
My own personal history with Steam is that I basically avoided it like the plague, up until the point where a game I wanted to buy was only available on Steam at the time I wanted to buy it. So, I finally bit the bullet and installed Steam. And now, today, I still occasionally might buy a PC game (and PC games are all I buy these days) if it isn't available on Steam (like, say, if it's some retro/nostalgic thing on GOG, or maybe some The Sims related thing on the EA Store, maybe), but much more often than that, I take the view that if it isn't on Steam, it may as well not exist at all (e.g. all the Epic Grotesque Scuzz "exclusives," most of which end up being properly released on the personal computer six months to a year later anyway).
[1] - All you have to do is look at my "steam" tag below to see what I'm talking about (well, the posts that are actually about Steam itself, anyway, and not just about games that happen to be on Steam or whatever).
