{"id":1220721,"date":"2025-02-21T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1220721"},"modified":"2025-02-21T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:30:00","slug":"ex-amazon-gaming-exec-explains-why-no-one-has-beaten-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1220721","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Amazon Gaming Exec Explains Why No One Has Beaten Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ba6ece0dc2c3129cd9272e771fdf6487.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A surprising contradiction sits at the heart of PC gaming: the medium\u2019s most open platform is nevertheless dominated by a single storefront. That storefront belongs to Valve, it\u2019s called Steam, and despite plenty of challenges in the two decades since it launched, no one has yet come close to unseating the <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/steam-19-000-new-games-limited-pc-valve-unplayed-80-1851738322\">Counter-Stri\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/steam-epic-games-store-valve-amazon-prime-twitch-1851765739\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising contradiction sits at the heart of PC gaming: the medium\u2019s most open platform is nevertheless dominated by a single storefront. That storefront belongs to Valve, it\u2019s called Steam, and despite plenty of challenges in the two decades since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1220721\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-kotaku","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}