Comment by JohnFen

Not just gamers.

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.