I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

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    2 months ago

    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, and shitty cloud streaming of few games? so they tried nothing actually meaningful, were all out of ideas, but shocked they lost

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      2 months ago

      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.

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      2 months ago

      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.