Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.
To be fair, “gamers” did acknowledge the drm related issues… and insist that Steam is also drm-free and it is only the games that use drm (including steam-drm…) that aren’t.
Which… look, I like gog a lot and do make it a point to buy games there when feasible. But it is hard to get TOO upset with people changing the definition of DRM when cdp already did that for gog (it is basically just GOO with less stardock shitheads).
Which gets back to the bigger issue of people needing to understand what they are and aren’t “giving up” for a given DRM model. But that would involve people thinking critically and… we don’t do that anymore.
To be fair, “gamers” did acknowledge the drm related issues… and insist that Steam is also drm-free and it is only the games that use drm (including steam-drm…) that aren’t.
Which… look, I like gog a lot and do make it a point to buy games there when feasible. But it is hard to get TOO upset with people changing the definition of DRM when cdp already did that for gog (it is basically just GOO with less stardock shitheads).
Which gets back to the bigger issue of people needing to understand what they are and aren’t “giving up” for a given DRM model. But that would involve people thinking critically and… we don’t do that anymore.