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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' (www.pcgamer.com)
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I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

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[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 85 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

I saw this posted a couple days ago which pretty succinctly summarizes the current state of the market.

Commented this a year ago, and its just as relevant today.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 52 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

While this is funny, it is not true: Valve has contributed tremendously to the Linux environment (Mesa above all, and Proton) and based their own console on top of it, making it possible to play almost every game you own, both from their store and from elsewhere.

People at Valve have been cooking every day. Never sitting idle.

This without considering the countless features Steam already sports: friends, achievements, cloud saves, a curated front page.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ten years ago when I first tried to play a game on Linux, with no experience, I was completely lost. I spent a few hours trying to get anything to run and eventually gave up.

Last year when I fully abandoned Windows and moved to Linux; I installed Steam, clicked play on a game, and it just ran no questions asked.

Since, I've run into a few titles that claim incompatibility; but when you enable the forced use of Proton to make it compatible; it fires right up, no problem.

Now, I could likely find and use the various compatibility tools without involving Steam; but this path has required 0 effort, it just works. I haven't had to install and experiment with several packages and mess with configuration and pull my hair put after hours of failure or any of that. Just click play.

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