Ex-Amazon Gaming Exec Explains Why No One Has Beaten Steam

I stopped being a gamer years ago because the game companies became intolerable. On the road to largely stopping gaming entirely, I spent plenty of time and money with Steam. Steam was a godsend for one reason: it provided at least some amount of protection from the larger games industry abuses.

Amazon would never do that. In fact, I consider Amazon to be an abusive company in its own right, so my expectation would be that they'd be at least as bad as everyone else and so wouldn't be anything like a reasonable alternative to Steam.

Also it seems crazy that VPs there don't seem to understand concepts like "monopoly" or "lock-in" or "network-effect".

Do they genuinely believe that people use Amazon because they love them and because Amazon makes the world a better place?