IT'S OVER
>>724412423Is new world officially dead now
>>724412423Maybe promoting actual terrorists on your platform wasn't a good idea.
they just going to switch to ai
>>724412423nooo not classics like... uh... and... uh
>>724412723>switch to aithey already did, yes this is a real game amazon made
tombraider is probably fucked
Reminder that Amazon was competing with Steam and nobody even knew. They bought Twitch to try to draw customers away from steam. Let that sink in for a minute.
Amazon makes video games?
am I supposed to feel sorry for these people after releasing a litany of bad games, subversive material and poisonous propaganda were aimed at me without my consent?
>>724412549Terrorists AND sexual predators.
>>724412423Why isn't the CEO of Twitch fired yet? Gay Willie Nelson is tanking the platform.
>>724413221surprisinglylook up the game New World and how it fried players' PC's
>>724412423>game development reducedAmazon was making games?
>>724412423Oh no! What will happen to Crucible??
>>724413370oh no. you're retarded
>>724413006What's with Snoop Dogg and being portrayed as a judge? Is there some joke I've missed?
>>724412423>twitch layoffsFUCK YES!!!
>>724413136Why do these giant companies keep hiring these retards that have no idea how industries work or how customers think? If you bought games on Amazon you were given a Steam key. How fucking retarded are these people?
>>724413424Twitch is doomed to fail financially, but Dan Clancy is also tanking its reputation which is very funn6
>>724413136???this nigga is retarded, why is every large company staffed solely by the most incompetent motherfuckers on earthi thought they bought twitch because they own AWS and were doing Prime Video so it (theoretically) was a shared development platformbut apparently they thought people who watch other people play games were gonna buy games?if they were gonna do that every game directory and stream should've had a "buy now on amazon gaymes :^)" button under it
Roblox
>>724413091They specifically call out in the article that the game is still in production, but I don't buy it. It's been seven years and Crystal Dynamics can't get shit off the ground.
>>724413606Typed the violent cultist. It's no secret that Twitch promotes and protects terrorists. Twitch has promoted threats of terrorist violence several times. It's common knowledge. You're just brainwashed.
>>724413739>It's no secret that Twitch promotes and protects terrorists.and animal abusers.
>>724413136>never cracked the code wow all you have to do is offer freedom and value lmaoLollmao
>>724413613I sentence you to 30 minutes in the hotbox
>>724413739do they promote threats of sexual predationhow do i become part of this program
>>724412423FACT: Hassan Piker is a violent animal abuser.
>>724413865Remove your critical thinking and drink the far-left cool-aid and you can get away with anything on Twitch.
>>724412423lol I guess good things can still happen and bad things can be prevented
>>724413717funny thing is, they did, for a good while, they integrated the store right into twitch, you could buy ubislop games and even get benefits, if you bought the division 2 and r6 siege when they came out you got extra shit in both for buying through twitch.They just... Gave up on the idea for some reason (some reason being that they didn't want to reduce their cut to pay the streamers)It was a funny experiment because it actually worked pretty well, streamers are great at incentivizing people to buy right away, this is why devs have the streams they loop 24/7 on steam pages for tons of games, people get a live view and might get that push they need to buy it.But their GREED fucking cockblocked them.
>>724412549Not the HECKIN doggo!!
Amazon always had more money than sense.>try to butt into the TV/film industryOops, all slop>try to butt into the gaming industryOops, literally nothing
>>724413865Did you miss the convention where the jew streamer kissed Emiru against her will, and twitch told her to suck it up?
>>724413613It's part of the contract to use his likeness.
>>724414076ask me how i know you are brown
>>724414076No, I was actually talking about violent terrorists with that post. The dog thing is a separate matter.
>>724413136Has Amazon done literally anything right? I cannot recall a single success other than mastering hocking cheap crap from China. And while that made untold billions... have they managed any other win with all those billions and billions?
>>724413370Clarification. Were the terrorists sexual predators?>>724413006>>724412723I look forward to our AI sexual predators terroists.
Amazon develops games?
>>724414295ask me how I know you're balding and have a clipped dick
>>724412423>launch new world season 10>streamers and reddit hype it up>it has no content at all and the story was AI generated slop>pvp is still terrible>catacombs is ok but the devs state thats all you get to enjoy for endgame is 1 raid or 1 pve extraction mode with hallways and rooms>they/them is the default choice for your character bioAmazon Games has to be one of the dumbest companies I have seen enter the gaming industry.
>>724413136At least dude's willing to admit, hey, it didn't work, and it's not appealing.
Does this mean it's fully over for Lost Ark pozzed global version?
>>724414451You didn't like The Rings Of Power which gave everyone with Amazon Prime Video AiDS to watch?
>>724413956>tfw only center-leftè finito...>>724414183idk who that is and i just watch no viewer vtubers on twitch with adblockers to steal amazon's money
>>724412486yes, don't go fuck its corpse you sick fuck.
>>724414451setting up networking infrastructure that like 70% of the planet uses is a pretty big one.
>>724414608And it only cost Amazon/Twitch BILLIONS OF DOLLARS for him to come to that conclusion. THANK YOU Mr. Not a Gamer for realizing you don't understand video games. That'll be $99,999,999,999
>>724413424I'm a lttle confused. I mean I thought Jews controled everything, and Kanye was debanked for a fraction of what Twitch does every week. >>724413613Because of his status, he sometimes gets to arbitrate gang beefs.>>724413993I wasn't aware of that feature, but it's the least retarded idea I think I've heard about twitch. Buy through twitch and streamer gets a cut.
>>724414451AWS has always made more money than the store.By a fucking lot actually.
>>724414839Setting up? More like contributing to, but if you want to suck the Amazon logo's dick that much...
>>724414183Yes. I have no idea who that is.>>724414451AWS. And their mastery of hocking crap is the best crap hocker in the world. Their logistics beats wal mart, and is like waffle house but global.
So... what's going to happen to this?
>>724414916Yea, that is strange. Why does Twitch get to promote the hatred of jews and violence against jews?
>>724414916It was honestly a pretty nice little feature for the short while it was available. I'm struggling to remember other games besides the then-new ubisoft games, and I think payday 2 was selling there too.It WAS a good idea but again, greed stopped it.Ubisoft's IR reports said that as pilots they were given a rate of 80% of sales (as opposed to steam's standard 25 for larger publishers leaving them 75), but amazon was disappointed in the amount of sales, so instead of letting it run they shut it down after less than a year.
>>724412423poojeet bros, what we do now!why entire world hating us???
>>724413136>we made a product nobody knew even existed>how could we have failed?!
>>724415082More importantly, the relative lack of kvetching, and financial attacks. I mean flat chested junior college students get more pushback than Twitch. I would expect literal picketing outside the president and streamer's houses.>>724414864As crazy as that is, there will be corpo fucks who spend that billion and NOT figure out that much.
every time twitch has a good idea like bits, they fuck it up by making it infinitely more obtuse to use. Why does the streamer get $1 and it costs me almost $1.50? Immediately retarded, I'd rather just donate direct. I understand they want a cut. But make it 20%, why is it fucking FORTY PERCENT?
>>724414451The Kindle was a great ereader for a while and they actually improved it between 4th and 5th gens. Then they removed physical controls and stopped making versions without backlights so it didn't last very long.
lol
>>724415327Amazon and its subsidiary(?) companies are so weirdly adversarial that all their shit is doomed to fail, for the longest time doing anything between a twitch/Amazon account, like redeeming your free subs or in game items was this weird japanese gambling system where >Okay go to twitch and get the balls>but you have to go to amazon and turn the balls into prizes>then you bring those prizes back to amazon to pawn them for actual monetary value.And its like this for fucking everything, twitch refuses to use real estate to advertize amazon products, amazon(the store) refuses to use more than one singular items real estate on the home page to show its users fucking anything and its so low effort and farted our that you can't make heads or tails of what the fuck they're advertising even is. Like Amazon Luna, on first impression it's like.... A controller? Is it like those shitty target plugnplay boxes? Idk but I'm not on amazon to find new video games I'm trying to buy an easy up or some spray paint or some shit so I'm not gonna bother clicking this microscopic affiliated ad.
>>724415327Amazon and its subsidiary(?) companies are so weirdly adversarial that all their shit is doomed to fail, for the longest time doing anything between a twitch/Amazon account, like redeeming your free subs or in game items was this weird japanese gambling system where >Okay go to twitch and get the balls>but you have to go to amazon and turn the balls into prizes>then you bring those prizes back to amazon to pawn them for actual monetary value.And its like this for fucking everything, twitch refuses to use real estate to advertize amazon products, amazon(the store) refuses to use more than one singular items real estate on the home page to show its users fucking anything and its so low effort and farted our that you can't make heads or tails of what the fuck they're advertising even is. Like Amazon Luna, on first impression it's like.... A controller? Is it like those shitty target plugnplay boxes? Idk but I'm not on amazon to find new video games I'm trying to buy an easy up or some spray paint or some shit so I'm not gonna bother clicking this microscopic affiliated ad. I've had an Amazon credit card for 5 fucking years, amazon has a user interface for managing the credit card but it doesn't fucking work and I still have to log into chase every single time I want to make a payment.
>>724412486yesthe nu new world is officially in effectI can't wait for a few years and we'll get New World Classic launch
>>724415876>>724415796Oops, I added the last bit when cloudflare was "submitting" forever
>>724413136Epic has been burning millions for years trying to compete with Steam but it hasn't yielded anything for them. It would've been a better use of that money to throw it in a furnace to heat Epic's offices.
>>724412423>amazon logo is A to Z>games logo is G to S...Games to shit?
Steak, Liara. When there's so much steak.
>>724413634in the corporate world, you climb ladders by convincing people above you that you can do literally anything. the only ability you need is to be perceived as smart.once you get the job with the fat paycheck, you can do ANYTHING. before anyone realizes that you don't know shit, you are already failing up, hopping from company to company and getting more and more lucrative jobs every time.there is just one thing you can never do: take a break
i really like nw, unironically my favorite mmo. and this new expansion was finally turning the game around.
>>724413473New World and some phone games, I think. Remember Amazon Luna? lol
>>724413846Anon's already in the hot box! He's been in the hot box all goddamn day!From what I've read on Blind:>14k corporate jobs insta-nuked>13k more jobs elsewhere getting nuked>most are H1BsSaars getting redeemed, it sounds like.
>>724413634because they went to the right schools, talk the right talk and dress well
>>724416345new world is probably doing okay just hurting for users, given the free giveaways on ps+ and games for gold recently. Maybe that's just console but idk.I doubt they're nuking any of their games just probably removing the infinite money they throw to get like 15 games to give away every month on prime.
>>724416819reports say irving and san diego studios are gone and those were primarily new world.
>>724412423Indians do your job better and cheaper.
>>724416556>13k more jobs elsewhere getting nuked>most are H1Bslmao, no.
>>724413739one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighterjust ask Nelson Mandela
>>724416945>cheaperYes>betterlmao no>>724417120Yes, most of the cuts are hitting H1Bs. Whether they'll be replaced with more H1Bs remains to be seen, but Amazon is one of the biggest abusers of that whole system.
>>724414608yeah, he admits it after he's gone
>>724414839I thought that was Akami
>Industry is collapsing left and rightI prayed for this.
>>724417123Yea, I'd like to ask him about Mandela Necklacing.
>>724412423the fuck is amazon games, first time hearing this and its only when it's closing? good riddance, sounds like utter shit
>>724413634no consequences.all higher ups are paid very well, regardlessstocks go up every quarter, regardlesseventually, they get so rich, they start living in their own made-up fake world, where everyone around them is a "yes sir" person, while they get high on their own farts
>>724417123They're literally all terrorists. They promote and worship terrorists.
>>724417301This is more Trump's changes to the H1B system finally hitting big tech, Amazon's gaming division seems to have been built almost entirely off of cheap jeet labor which is absolutely no surprise to anybody.
>>724417197>Yes, most of the cuts are hitting H1Bs.No one believes you, Sandeep.
>>724414451AWS, Server farmsit runs fucking everything on the internet and it is why they make shit tons of money every month
>>724413136this guy can't even write coherently
>have infinite money>Instead of doing market research and slowly carving a market, they just throw bunch of money that goes nowhere
>>724413136>We need a Steam Competitor!>Quick make a Steam Clone and add these five retarded things that we NEED to make our investors happy>WHAT DO YOU MEAN nobody uses it because of those five retarded things?It happened to origin, 2k, amazon, microsoft, everybodyNobody realizes that to beat steam you have to make a produc better than them and not fuck your userbase over
>>724417691>Amazon abuses H1B program>this means Amazon hires shitloads of H1Bs and fires shitloads of H1BsI don't see how this concept is difficult to grasp.
>>724417793But enough about Microsoft
>>724417598Those people sure do love importing slaves.
>>724417793Line must go up.
>>724417959Nigga all those big tech companies do same shit.
>>724417793That's just big tech in a nut shell. Google has started and killed more projects than almost all their competitors put together, just billions of dollars flushed down the toilet.
>>724418313In gaming? No they don't. Amazon never splashed out as much as MS did for this shit, and Faceberg only cares about that stupid Second Life clone they're making.
>>724412423>paid millions to fork cryengine just to kill their fork>paid millions to start new studios and games>every single one flops>paid millions to get publishing rights to other people's games>ruin them for the west, literally took too long to port blue protocol trying to blackifyed every character>the one game that succeeded is about to die because they want out of video game businessgood riddance, fuck these faggots
>>724413136>>724413832Steam wins due to three reasons:1. First one to get the online game store concept right 2. People already have 20 years worth of game collections there3. Steam is still functional. No matter what you offer, people will still prefer Steam because they have their games there.
>>724412423oh no.. not... uh???
>>724412423Amazon was in game development?
>>724420172Not even that, steam have fuckload of features like steam input.Everything else is ridiculous barebones, epic launcher didn't had cart till somewhat recently for fucks sake.
>>724415965all they've done of note is that court battle with apple
>>724412423If they had hired capable people, they would have seen results.Turns out you don't want arts majors with a minor in gender studies who have never played video games, but are passionate about working in the industry to change it.
>>724420539>If they had hired capable people, they would have seen results.They did have management with a successful track record. But it was definitely the hiring managers and HR roasties that did them in on every team member under their watch.The woke coasts should just not look for talent there anymore. And no China and India won't succeed either.
>>724412423Have they released anything besides New World?
>>724420397Interestingly enough, Epic has the right idea with the free games and they're basically fighting a war of attrition against Valve. By giving the games for free they're allowing a new generation of consumers to build their libraries; they don't have any attachment to Steam because they never bought games there. So in 10 years only old people will still have Steam libraries while the rest of people will have their EGS libraries, slowly driving Valve out of business.
>>724412423Asmonbald WON
>>724420172The problem is steam's competitors either don't have the resources to compete against Valve or else they don't have the patience. Valve didn't become the juggernaut that it is now in 1 or 2 years, it took them a long time to gradually build up trust and gradually improve their storefront. When Steam first came out people were dragging it constantly, it was shitty and lacked features and everybody constantly harangued Valve over it. But they kept on improving it and adding more and more features, until eventually it had so much to offer even people who'd held out for years eventually came to the table (I was one of these). Mostly it was the utter shittiness of the PC ecosystem at the time in the late 00s that made me make a Steam account, finally. Valve were the only ones who seemingly had any intention of investing into the PC platform, it didn't seem like a bad bet to buy from them. By contrast, look at their competitors. GoG are admirable for committing to no DRM and making games cheap and accessible, and I've bought a lot of games from them as well, but they simply do not have the resources to really compete against Valve's suite of advanced features. And in fact, GoG's commitment to zero DRM puts them at a disadvantage in this case. It makes them very consumer-friendly, but "no DRM" doesn't attract publishers and developers to your storefront.Epic's failures are well documented and I don't think I have to go into detail here, but the biggest problem is Sweeny's impatience. He had all the money to take it very slow and build trust with consumers, but he wanted to make his store an instant competitor to Steam. He made a lot of dick moves that pissed people off, and clearly didn't give a shit about customers. He had such an entitled attitude about it that almost regardless of what he was offering people spat in his face for his shitty greedy mindset.
>>724413136they competed with steam???? Excuse me, but what was their product??? What the fuck is "amazon gaming" and have they released ONE non-mobile game EVER?
>>724415048>>724414706desu Emiru probably didn't care that much but she has to act like she does because it'd be really weird not to. She's confessed that she's easy to sleep with. She knows she's farming this "parasocial girlfriend relationship" meta with some of her fans so it was only a matter of time before this happened since she's stringing along these incredibly lonely and stunted virgin men.Personally, I think this is a good thing. If women had less security they would think twice about farming simps for money. Imagine it was legal to rape onlyfans whores because you're not raping you're just stealing services. They'd stop real quick.
did twitch really devolve into reactslop and vtumors? what happened to videogames?
>>724421554People just grab free game then uninstall or go back to play fortnite.There is zero incentive to keep using epic launcher.
They cancelled their Lord of the Rings MMO too.
>>724421554Epic has had all the time in the fucking world to improve their shop and they haven't done shit. They think just offering free games is enough because they are fucking retarded
>>724421915Good. Amazon has raped LotR as a setting so hard there's nothing left to despoil.
>Twitch>Videogames No.
>>724412423amazon games what did they even make?
>>724417880>Not fuck your userbase overand never fuck them EVER.A public company can never compete with Valve because Valve has no financial incentive to ever fuck over their customers over at any point. Public companies have a constant incentive to fuck over their customers and even if the powers that be happen to be benevolent, someone gets laid off someone else gets hired and the customers are back on the block again
>>724420413Arguably, it was a far better use of their cash than trying to mess with Steam. The mobile market is the largest place cash is made anyway.>>724421554>war of attrition with ValveA suicide mission, because Epic would run out of steam way before Valve would. Fortnite's numbers have been decreasing while Steam's have only been going up.
>>724421357True, it's not just about hiring capable people, it's also about not hiring the kinds of people who ruin projects.
>>724413136It actually makes sense that the streaming audience would just buy it right there while the streamer is playing it (and pressuring them to click that buy button). Another case of a trillion dollar company not being able to make an easy layup.
>>724412423>They finally kill the tank and healer meta in PvP and make melee DPS good>immediatly kill the game offWhelp, it was fun while it lasted.
>>724412423>womp wompWe're using white girl slang now?
>>724412423>>724412486>>724421518>>724413136They bought out Double Helix who were fresh from making the Killer Instinct remake way better than it had any right to be. Then they proceeded to give them absolutely no fucking projects for years until folding them into some studio making a shitty MMO.Meanwhile they pay some marketing retard 6 figures to cRaCk tEh CoDe of how Steam dominates the market, when Newell already told the whole industry exactly how it's done in 2008 (just offer features and value that are an improvement on the pirate copy).Anyone who thinks business creates a meritocracy or who believes in the invisible hand of the market has no clue how retarded even the most successful companies are.
>>724421920>They think just offering free games is enoughBecause it is. The only reason Steam wins is due to people already having a big investment there in the form of the games they've been buying for the past 20 years. Everything else is flavor, irrelevant flavor. There will be a point where all the newcomers to PC gaming will have EGS accounts with hundreds of games. Why would they go to Steam? >>724422032Unreal Engine prints money. And if World of Warcraft proved something is that even if it isn't as big as it was at the beginning your online game will never die thanks to the whales.
>>724422132what
>>724422030This, nobody will ever take Steam's crown while it is private ownedHoly fuck I hope Gaben's son doesn't sell out the company once his dad diesHe is a race car driver right? let us all hope he is very successfull on that and never need to sell Valve
>>724422291>Because it is.evidently not>There will be a point where all the newcomers to PC gaming will have EGS accounts with hundreds of gamesholy cope
>>724413136It's actually hillarious how retarded the suits running most companies areIf you give me a near-infinite amount of dollars instead of them I would unironically do a better job
>>724413136>gamers had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms because a new one was availableunbelievable that it took 15+ years top realize this. lmao. absolutely deserved along with every other clone
>>724417880>not fuck your userbase overImpossible for a publicly traded company that must constantly enshitify their service chasing quarterly profits. Valve has an insurmountable advantage, and that advantage is the ability to simply do nothing.
>>724422484>does nothing>winswhat is this business model called
>>724422447You're the one coping. It's pretty obvious how the EGS will subvert Steam. They're playing the long game, the only winning game.
>>724415486Which ones is the best currently among cheap ones? Onyx?
>>724422484This post is the most trvest of trve posts I have ever seen. Publicly traded companies are forced to make a profit at metaphorical gunpoint. If they make a decision that causes a loss, people get replaced. If they intentionally cause a loss, they get sued. The only way to go private again is to have an enormous amount of wealth in order to buy out the company again.
>>724421821The short of it is:Growth stunted and shrinking from terrible management for years.California level no fun allowed so only very old partners can act like human beings, driving most of the new blood and small people to Kick which seems to be doing a lot better than when MS and Facebook kidnapped some ecelebs.Constant ad streaks embedded into the stream itself without warning or even a peek into what you're missing in the stream on first visit and then every 30 minutes, a total bitch to bypass so most people just dropped it, leaving only the whales and the savvy.Opened up not-videogames with bathtubs and nigger shit.Opened up not-videogames again with terrorists doing politics.Vtubers, which used to be largely a jap streamer thing, swooped into the vacuum and plague a lot of categories.eSports, which were a lot of the blood of the site, are basically dead.
>>724422642Yeah sure buddy, you can tell me "I told you so" 5-10-20 years down the road if it makes you feel better.
>>724422642>b-but EGS is the one actually playing the long gam-ACK
>>724422642I doubt it, they still make up less than 1% of sales for most games out there. Like 99% steam 1% Epic.
>>724422853Next he's going to say that graph and the numbers are falsified in order to justify his belief.
>>724422447https://gamerant.com/epic-games-store-free-games-list/Even if you arrived a couple years late to the party, if you kept redeeming the free games by this point you have a library bigger than 90% of Steam libraries. Little Timmy, a newcomer to the PC gaming ecosystem, already built a massive library. He has no reason to buy the newest game on Steam because he already has his games on Epic.
>>724413136Twitch people watch others play games they don't buy them themselvesLook at the the Nintendo Switch 2, all the haters are on twitch but it still sold the most of any console ever. The twitch userbase only care about gossip and drama, videogames are just an excuse to watch their favourite ecelebs socialize
>>724422931>bunch of shovelware garbage with 1 or 2 decent gamesLittle Timmy ain't gonna be playing any of these
>>724422725You forgot that they not only MUST make profit, but also make MORE proffit than the last periodWhat public companies chase is not profit, it is growthIf there is no growth people get replaced, stocks get sold, the investment driesSteam stays afloat by doin nothing because they do not have to chase this model
>>724422853I wonder why more platforms don't do this, just posting basic details like how many users are playing a game or how many are even signed ina lot of big companies like to boast about sales numbers or "players" but Steam's the only one that really gives you a good look at how many actually give a fuck
>>724422931Epic doesn't have the social features of Steam though. Even if you have a bunch of literal who indie games from giveaways, there's no community you're invested in.>i don't care about that gay shitMost people do. Little Timmy does.
>>724422291>Unreal Engine prints moneyEpic only gets cash if the game performs most of the time, or at least I think they usually have a percentage based revenue model for anything but the largest games. Epic also has a few hundred devs working on the engine back at HQ, which means their operating costs are high.>WoWWoW can continue to exist because its dev costs get lower and lower as the content and expansions get increasingly thin. Don't forget that Blizzard has been having their balls squeezed for half a decade at least because they were too expensive. It's what's happening right now to MS' gaming division.
>>724423217True. Despite technically being shit and not updated since the early 2010s, steam forums and its other features like guides accumulated so much information, the death of the "original forum" due to discord trannies does not look like such an apocalyptic event for me
>>724423217>>724422994Look at the list. There are plenty of heavy hitters and extremely popular games.
Little Timmy should hire better shills cause they are at the point of ignoring reality while saying we're the ones coping kek
>>724412423Lol didn't the director of Avowed get shitcanned by Obsidian and then picked up by Amazon Games a few months ago? I bet these 2 things are connecred
>>724413136all the money in the world wil not help if you put diversity and wokeness over hiring the most talented people and actually giving the people what they want
>>724422609first-mover advantage
>>724421554They have the right idea, but just like their store, the execution is the problem. 90% of games are shovelware garbage, 10% are kinda decent games that people might play at some point. None of these will make any young PC gamer pick EGS over Steam. Shareholders need to come to terms with the fact that at this point Steam is untouchable and that there is nothing they can do to stop them. They are PC gaming. No sane person would willingly choose to use an inferior launcher with less games than the premier store that almost everyone uses. Public companies are incapable of being better than a private company by nature. Games are more entertainment than business, and you can't business manage entertainment.
>>724413136Should have built a better product retards
>>724425860Cool it with the antisemitism. Think of the shareholders
>we bought a videogame streaming site and mutated it into a living nightmare to try and somehow get more gamers to buy our putrid dogshit???
>billions lost on Rangz of Powah>hundreds of millions lost on developing and promoting horrible games>billions lost on turning Twitch into a gay shitholeIs Bezos actually retarded? How are they so profitable if the entire corporation has no idea what they are doing?
>>724412549Grow up sweetie, it is 2025. Moderate beheaders are welcomed in all NATO countries.
>>724423217Epic used to have a chat function that they ended up axing years ago. It actually got worse over time.
>>724427370AWS prints money. That's it. The store was never the real moneymaker, the cloud is and always has been.
>>724427370Bezos laughs and sells stock. who's going to tell him no?
>>724414839AWS only has a plurality of cloud services but yes they are the leader
>>724428423Remember last week when a jeet fucked a DNS server in Amazon and galf the Internet went dowm?Leader is an understatement.
>>724413136>we failed because Steam is a social platform and a trophy caseThis faggot STILL doesn't understand. Steam succeeds because they have GAMES. GOG succeeds because they have GAMES. EGS kinda succeeds because they kinda have GAMES. Nobody wants to pay for fucking cloud bullshit when it's piss easy to get a laptop that will run most games worth playing. Literally fucking WHO was this for? Are Steam and GOG the only fucking companies that has unlocked the secret of "ask people what they want to buy"?
>>724414140They are essentially just a parody of an evil corporation in some hamfisted b-movie. More money and resources than the mind can imagine, but absolutely no creativity or even basic brainpower. It's bizarre. You could not write this level of incompetence into a story and still have it be believable.
>>724412423I am still mad that Amazon murdered Double Helix
>>724412549wtf I love our Jewish masters and their genocides now
>>724413136>Reflecting on these mistakes, I realize how crucial it is to deeply understand customers before making big moves.How do people this fucking retarded and out of touch with reality to the point of considering this a revelation end up in such high-paid positions?
>>724427370Because Amazon is still the best storefront in the world right now, thats the elephant in the room. Everyone uses Amazon and thats a fact.
>>724414451AWS, retard. It's why they can get away with throwing shit at random walls until something sticks, same as Microsoft subsidizing gamepass, AI crap and everything else
>>724415965At least people know Epic exists and that they are trying to compete, the only reason I knew amazon had anything to do with gaming is free skins on league
>>724414183A massive nothingburger, but she's a woman so it's a massive heckin deal breaker.
>>724430261>How do people this fucking retarded and out of touch with reality to the point of considering this a revelation end up in such high-paid positions?Mommy and Daddy. That's literally it. Blame the circumstances of your birth.
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>>724430702Nobody knows about Amazon's gaming stuff because it never produced anything, and I also doubt that most of the retarded zoomers using Twitch even know Amazon is the corporate parent.
>>724430261Steam people are actual cultists. Epic Games Store literally gives out a free game every week and they still refuse to use it, because using Steam is more important to them than playing games
>>724422290I remember KI remake having a lackluster soundtrack and a metric fucking ton of paid dlc.
>>724412549Yeah well->>724412723-that.
>>724413136>we tried everythingYou don't even need a list of what they tried to know that this is enormously untrue. Did you try looking at what Steam does that makes gamers like it and doing that but better? No? Why not, you can afford to undercut them.
>>724421554you don't form an audience of PAYING CUSTOMERS by giving away free gamesalso have you seen the kind of shovelware they give nowadays, you'll be lucky to get one title worth playing per quarter
>>724413136>to disruptthat's why they and timmy failed. they don't get it and never will.
>>724423148It's because Valve is privately-owned, they don't have endless shareholders to please who might get antsy if they see a platform owner releasing actual player numbers for every single game on their platform, which would show when a game actually does legitimately flop, which is all too common these days.
>>724427370that actually looks like kinois the rest of the series good?
>>724412423wokies out of jobs, i celebrate
>>724413136just imagine a world where amazon won>amazons steam competitor becomes a huge success and most people are forced to migrate from steam cause they got bought out>in order to launch your monthly rented games, you need to donate subs to a streamer who is playing the game currently and have their stream running in the background>during gameplay, its all streamed so there's huge input lag because you cant have access to the game files>constant advertising ingame for amazon deals>turns out your rented copy only allows for 10 hours of access at a time and auto takes payments out>access to friends and basic features locked behind multiple pay per month programs
>>724432640The absolute fucking cope. They get shuffled around, not kicked out of the industry. Instantly rehired somewhere else to ruin another franchise. I remember when you coping fucks celebrated the Veilguard tranny getting fired, now he's in charge of Baldur's Gate 4 LMAO. Easily placated cattle with the memories of goldfish. Jesus Christ.
>>724418396I wonder if historians will look at this period as a technological dark age/lost period. Just a couple of decades where tech growth was suppressed until patents and copy rights expired.
>>724421554The difference between Steam and EGS was that Steam was founded on the release of Half Life 2, one of the all-time PC games of the time and basically forced people to use Steam for the DRM. Valve already had loyal fans back then but they cultivated them well by genuinely believing in the entertainment aspect. After all, Gaben was one of the original Windows programmers who worked out DirectX and ported Doom as Window's first proper killer app. All that Tim did was try to follow in Id's shoes with Unreal while Gaben and co focused on actually understanding games as the future of entertainment. EGS was based out of Fortnite, a free game that was a ripoff of previous, uglier battle royale games. No shit nobody is gonna get attached to owning Fortnite if its F2P unlike HL2, CS, TF2 and Portal at the time.
>>724433040bro they are tanking all the companies they get into, people will take the hint
>>724433170>bro they are tanking all the companies they get intoAnd they'll keep doing it, at your expense. It's not about the money. It's about the message.>people will take the hintTwo more weeks!
>>724422609The private company gambit
>>724418707To this day Star Citizen still uses cry engine.
>>724433478demoralized retard
>>724433872Endlessly coping faggot. You're so fucking stupid, you are your own reason for being exploited. Because you make it so fucking easy.
>>724413136>we tried everythingexcept making a good game
>>724413136Reminder that all the big corpos/companie are run by old fucks boomers that can barely use computers and cannot spot what is an obvious AI slop, yet they want to dictate and decide how things should run even in young people internet culture sphere like twitch
>>724413136If big evil corporations want Steam out of the game, then why don't they get rid of the tub of lard and buy it from the next guy that takes charge?
>>724422609it's called not having to answer to investors, i.e. the lowest class of human being
>>724429105It's always amazing how having to answer to investors every 4 months can really fuck up any kind of long-term planning thus driving the company to chase quick profits to make them happy.
>>724434173Nigga I get /v/ on average is retarded but I bet everyone here knows at least that.
>>724434818Everyone "knows" a lot of stuff about things they have no idea about.
>>724427370Doesn't matter when women will constantly buy chinese garbage by the cargo ship off amazon and like 70% of the modern net uses AWS.
>>724432984Valve has done some stupid shit too, but it's kinda insane how hard they've nearly single-handedly held the line against gaming becoming an absolute mess.
>>724413136If Valve/Steam were to start failing all my games would be at risk.Thus I will never support another game store until you solve that problem.Simple as.
>came close to working for Amazon>Got a different job offer less than a day before I was scheduled to start training with Amazon>Quit on the spot and accepted the job offer with the other company insteadFeel like I dodged a bullet given all the shit I've heard about Amazon
>>724435087That should only be telling with how shitty the industry still treats PC gaming, including microsoft. Steam only sailed off because everyone abandoned PC and when they crawl right back they make substandard platforms to "compete" against Valve.
>>724412423What happened to all the anons shilling amazog games? Did they stop playing them or did They stop paying them?
>>724429979
>>724412486Yup. On borrowed time, but its death draws near.
I'm going to try Aion2 despite my better judgmentBut if that shit is ass (and it will be) I'm just going to live in some Vanilla WoW private server for the rest of my days and call it a dayThere's nothing better than VanillaThere never will beIt's over
>>724413634The other candidates gave HR Stacy the ick
>>724434026forget games, they tried to compete with STEAMwithout making aPLATFORM TO MANAGE VIDEO GAMESall they had was their basic generic storefront with no integration to any other part of their business.valve had the wherewithall to tie their storefront to a game management library that handled installation and updates. being soft DRM was icing on the cake for developers, it snowballed from there.
>>724435087the paid modding bullshit was resolved pretty much within a week of backlash and ended up becoming a free staple of the platform wheras if it was the other companies would have double downed on it until it became a smoldering ruin
>>724413136>we thought that people would stop buying games from steam and use our store instead because we have a lot of money>and then after we wasted billions of dollars we realized that people don't base their purchasing habits around which company has more moneyThis man was an executive at a company that's worth 2 trillion dollars.
>>724413136Absolute state of the modern entertainment industry
>>724431615>I remember KI remake having a lackluster soundtrack and a metric fucking ton of paid dlcwell music is subjective, but i think it had one of the best osts of all time, mick gordon worked on a bunch of it. >ton of paid dlci wouldnt know, i bought the complete edition. the game was fun for what it was. unfortunately most things microsoft touches dies, and KI was an xbox exclusive for a long time
>>724413136they could pay 90% of random anons here to tell them if something was a retarded idea and to not bother and they'd be right. hire me to call your ideas retarded for one million a year and you'll save billions
>>724436657it's doubly funny that an executive with purchasing power looked at a privately owned company and assumed its worth and then blindly threw shit at the wall to see what stick because there's no public trader to tell him corp secrets as to what actually works
>>724417793the more i learn about business I'm convinced its only luck and no skillits all monkeys at the typewriters, occasionally they'll shit out shakespeare but greed and insanity blinds them, and drive them to typing all the timenumber go up!
>spend a billion dollars creating a studio>millions on land & real estate>millions on hardware & furnishings>millions on talent search, hiring, and staffing>put capital management nepo babies in charge >all of the money goes up in smoke with accounting tricks and tax breaks>company shuttered within 5 years>no consequences whatsoever, 100% free to continue playing with monopoly money completely without risk
>>724436657I don't get how nearly every single company executive is always the dumbest motherfucker I've ever heard speak. it's baffling. I just have to assume they're an absolute lizardman willing to backstab and lie at every opportunity.
>>724437323I doubt it, do you even have a tattoo? Paint your hair? Get out of here, bozo.
>>724436657wal-mart theorySpend billions and billions of dollars operating at a loss to drive competition out of business, then jack prices through the roof and loot communities for everything they're worthExcept this doesn't work in an online space where there's already dominant digital marketplacesSee: EGS, Gamepass, etc.
>>724437560The consequence is going to be when the people they consider to be the slave class, which do they need, is at the point where they cannot even afford to live. This is why there is such a massive flock of jeets coming in because they are used to beyond rock bottom living standards.
Lol if you work in tech you get replaced by AI eventually.
>>724437773
>We needed to validate our assumptions about our customers And we never did that eitherSo just like the other 90% of the gaming industry that fails to sell their shit
>>724437773The slave class won't do shit. This civil war uprising cope is so fucking cringe.
>>724412423>game development reducedAmazon made/funded games?
>>724422463Now imagine all the retarded little weekly meetings, powerpoint slides, lunch power hours, data visualizations. All the man-hours and worthless discussion centered around absolute corporate bullshit lmao.
>>724413613Murda was the case that they gave him, busta
>>724413136That only means Jeff Bezos was a dumbshit for not knowing he was bleeding money for no reason.
>>724413136>doesn't seem to understand at all why Luna and Stadia and all other "streaming games" shit failedGod, how the fuck do these people fail upwards into these positions? Dude knows nothing about gaming.Nobody wants to play a game with like 3 second input delay you retard
>>724413136Until just now, I had never heard of Prime Gaming, Goliath, or Luna.
>>724413136>social network, a library and a trophy case all in oneFUCKING RETARD IT ISNT THIS EITHER HOLY SHITHOW IS THIS FAG IN SUCH HIGH PAYING AND HIGH POWERED POSITIONS WHEN HE KNOWS JACK FUCKING SHIT ABOUT WHAT HE IS DOINGWHY IS HIS LANGUAGE ALL BLATANTLY TRANSPARENT AND MEANINGLESS "oh me so sorry me learned a lot please forgive me" BLABBERING, JUST INSINCERETY ALL ACROSS THE BOARDI FUCKING HATE CORPORATIONS AND SUITS, GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY VIDEOGAMES, THEY WERE ONLY GOOD WHEN THEY WERE BEING MADE BY A HANDFUL OF DORKS IN A GARAGE SLAMMING CHEAP BEER AND BLARING SLAYER CONSTANTLYGET OFF MY INTERNET TOO WHILE YOU ARE AT IT, ITS NOT A FUCKING PLACE FOR YOUR CORPORATE BULLSHIT AND MONEY GRUBBING ADVERTISER PANDERING BEHAVIOR, ITS A PLACE FOR FAT UNWASHED NERDS TO PLAY VIDEOGAMES WHILE CALLING EACH OTHER NIGGER 61 TIMES PER MINUTE
>>724413136This email is the quintessential "masters in business administration, hired because my uncle's on the board"
>>724438578Back in the day, people would joke about how we should throw all the lawyers into a volcano because of their soulless legalese nothing speak.Now, every corpo fag in the world is like that and there are millions of them, way more than there ever were lawyers. It's become normalized even for someone ambitious to have this kind of soulless attitude. You're expected to be like this if you want to succeed or else "you're not serious."
>>724413136the more they try to pry us away from Steam, the more it makes me want to never use their launchersbecause Steam has been there from the beginning, and it's so fucking obvious every store now just wants that sweet 30% cut on sales, none of them give a fuck about making a good productgabe does nothing and wins because it's like craigslist, it just fucking works and doesn't need changesposts like this just prove that point to the grave
>>724413136In order to compete with Steam you need a strategic long-term investment to be able to set the system up, connect with other devs to sell their games into your store and retain the customers to actually play inside your ecosystem. That's an almost impossible mindset to have for big tech nowadays. I think deep down they know it's true.
>>724439818TO COMPETE WITH STEAMYOU NEED TO GET VALVE TO AGREE TO PUT COUNTER STRIKE AND DOTA ON YOUR PLATFORMFAGGOT
>>724412423Amazon makes games?
>>724413006>haha it's black guy who made his fortune rapping about killing people with guns and doing drugs>le heckin wholesome chungus i love niggers
>>724440829basedfuck white ""people""
>>724441338correct, whites are not people they are ubermensch
>>724421778amazon prime had its own game catalogue and storefront for a bit. they still might but i can't be assed to look it up. they also have luna? that might be the same thing.
>>724413136imagine hiring this fucking guy as VP. he publicly admits to failing and learning from his mistakes like it's his first day on the job. I bet he has another job as VP somewhere. jesus christ.
>>724422609instead of listening to investors who don't even know what a video game is give tips on how to sell video games they instead..... listen to their audience?
Were you banned from Twitch and you never know why? Blame this fatlard
>>724412486I was surprised to find out that it was supposed to still be alive.
>>724414451Successfully has become the biggest online store.Successfully has becomes the world biggest cloud networking provider.It’s kind of like with Google, you just need 1 really successful product to justify 99 failures
>>724413136>Amazon niggers were responsible for killing Reflexive Entertainmentholy FUCK I'm mad now
>>724413136Instead of pursuing video games, they should've copied Steam and focused on movies and music, also books and audio-books.>a social network>a library>a trophy case>a storeHow fucking hard was it to do THAT.
>>724442445Sounds more like hes the guy responsible for getting viewbots off twitch after that one big incident this year. That actually tanked a chunk of viewership off twitch which is probably why they laid him off
>>724442445>I'm getting married in a month>This is a bad year???
>>724413136corpo executives have to be some of the DUMBEST motherfuckers on the planet.
>>724445757Maybe she's a total bitch.
>>724413136>Reminder that Amazon was competing with Steam and nobody even knew. They bought Twitch to try to draw customers away from steam. Let that sink in for a minute.They also completely miss the reason people still use steam. Valve hasn't fucked anyone over like amazon has, valve makes all their money off of steam meaning valve up and abandoning steam anytime soon is not going to happen whereas amazon and google are famous for just dropping things people depend on simply because they randomly find it not making enough money.There will never be a world where anyone checks in to the epic game store, amazon game hut, or google game palooza because those companies are fucking garbage and lead by retards.
>>724431606>Steam people are actual cultists. Epic Games Store literally gives out a free game every week and they still refuse to use it, because using Steam is more important to them than playing gamesI ain't supporting tim weenie and his fortshite, not now not ever.
