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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Epic Game Store tops $1 Billion USD in 2024
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:12:38 -0800
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On 2/21/2025 9:08 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> There's a related article talking about how Amazon expected it could
> dominate the PC gaming market-space and yet repeatedly failed to
> dislodge Steam/Valve.* Like Epic, they thought that just throwing huge
> amounts of money around would be sufficient, and were surprised that
> tactic didn't work. Apparently the idea of actually creating a product
> that could compete on features never occurred to them.
> 
> To any other would-be competitors to Steam, here's a (probably
> incomplete) list of features you need to have in your storefront:
> 
>      a) a way to launch games (duh)
>      b) a way to buy games (also duh)
>      c) preferably a way to make the launching bit the default,
>         and not the storefront
>      d) chat
>      e) user reviews
>      f) discussions
>      g) workshops for mods
>      h) screenshots & saved videos
>      g) sharing libraries amongst family
>      h) remote play
>      i) toggleable FPS counter
>      j) cloud saves

GOG's further along than most, it's still a little janky but it has 'DRM 
free' and can be launched from it's own directory, and can install 
without the client on any family's computers.  They do have user 
reviews.  They also make an effort to make games work all of which makes 
them superior to Steam in those respects.

Epic & Amazon all they've got is free games and being inferior to 
everything else.

Sony and MS's are fairly good, but they have to be as they service PS & 
Xbox respectively.

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