2d ago

Amazon baffled that throwing money at a problem doesn't work

www.pcgamer.com 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'

"Just because you are big enough to build something doesn’t mean people will use it."

It's really interesting to see how out of touch with reality these folks are, really an eye opening article.

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2d ago

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 /gaming-industry/amazon-apparently-thought-it-was-gonna-compete-with-steam-since-the-orange-box-but-prime-gamings-former-vp-admits-that-gamers-already-had-the-solution-to-their-problems/

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Anyone who saw Rings of Power knew this.
- The baffling thing about RoP is that they had a budget multiple times greater than the Jackson movies and still made substantially worse looking armor and weapons.
  Like, forget the scripting issues, how do you not just hire as many of the same companies as you can find?
  I thought the first season had its moments but some of those armors... Oof.
  
  That wasn’t the case. In 2023 dollars, the LotR trilogy had a budget of around $513 million, eventually resulting in about 12 hours of finished product. RoP has a budget of about $150m for around 9 hours. So the trilogy spent $42m per hour compared to RoP’s $16m per hour.