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Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC (www.reuters.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

You're right. It's good they're competing. But to say they're doing a good job for gamers? The thing is horrible (atm) :

Achievments (if even there) are meaningless, you can't even check them. You unlock one and then it vanishes. "my achievos"-page remains empty
no rating-system, No discussions, no guides, no workshop, no nothing
the friends-feature doesn't even work.
shop-browsing is annoying af. No tabs.
you'll get constant questions about a game (if played long enough) but won't see any score/results. You just offer free data.

I hate steam's monopoly. Truly. But at least they're offering a solid framework.

Epic, just like gog galaxy, had an initially cool start and then... Nothing. All the years and they're still as horrible as bad then. No effort. I can understand gog, but not epic.

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Windows would still be the only viable option for most PC gamers if not for the investment Valve has made in proton/wine. You can say it's self-serving (steamdeck) and you would likely be right. But we have two (three if you count standard Linux desktops as distinct from steamdeck) viable PC gaming platforms thanks specifically to Valve.

[–] hh93@lemm.ee -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure the fact that that happened at the same time as Microsoft pushing their Game-Pass and their own Store is just by chance...

don't kid yourself and think that they did that just for the benefit of the users and not to be able to get games and users away from Microsoft if that's necessary...

[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The whole point of the conversation is that the other platforms arent doing any work for the consumer.

To this day, epic doesnt even launch on linux officially, and requires a 3rd party launcher to even play its games. Epics first party games are on the list of games that dont work on linux.

There's clearly one company who puts more effort onto the consumer front than the other. Epic doesnt even need to make a custom OS like valve does, it just needs to get their own launcher working, and their own games working, which they dont and refuse to.

To say that Epic is doing better for the consumer is disingenuous (however it does better for the developer though)

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