Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.

Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    Steam doesn’t give customers permanent ownership of their games. Its extremely rare, but game licenses do occasionally get revoked on Steam.

    • missingno@fedia.io
      141·
      2 days ago

      Which means that’s an area where they could’ve tried to set themselves apart from Steam.

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Those are terms set by the games publishers, Steam and other platforms pass them on to the customer. The only platform big enough to strongarm publishers to not do that is Steam, but it would definitely make some publishers pull out of Steam completely.