Comment on Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
All they gotta do is copy steam features 1:1 and clean up the ui a bit. I’m not married to steam but no one wanna copy all their features let alone improve it.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So many of their most beloved features are crazily dev intensive to maintain, and critically they’re not static. Amazon never really updates their consumer interfaces, steam is constantly adding new features and reworking their old ones across all their UX. Its just not economically feasible to pop in and replace them if you’re a publicly traded company, the shareholders would look at the maintenance costs alone and faint