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So you want to compete with Steam: Epic, Discord, Kartridge, and RobotCache

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  1. clerical_terrors
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    As soon as I read the words "Blockchain" and "ICO" for RobotCache my curiosity for them was gone. The answer they provided to very essential questions only made it worse*. Not only do they not...

    As soon as I read the words "Blockchain" and "ICO" for RobotCache my curiosity for them was gone. The answer they provided to very essential questions only made it worse*.
    Not only do they not seem to fully understand what they're making, but they cannot even properly justify why they're making it in the first place. Even with the ICO cancelled the "mining" seems harebrained and the Blockchain still mystifies me. There is no point to a Blockchain, whose big advantages are decentralized and system-enforced trust, for a central corporate entity, let alone one which doesn't understand common vulnerabilities.

    RobotCache is another company that has let itself be sweet-talked onto the Blockchain-hype-train, that in and of itself destroys any confidence I might have had in the competence of it's leaders and it's vision.

    Kartridge actually looks fairly interesting and I'm willing to bet that it can remain a sort of "not-like-the-other-stores" competitor to whatever AAA store ends up pulling ahead, it's pedigree and community integration seem like it could perfectly position itself for a tiny niche like GoG has.

    I'm also getting a fair kick out of reading this opinion on Discord. Deimos has said before that they seem to be flailing around looking for a business model and this article's analysis puts into words what that actually looks like: they can't seem to make up their mind whether they're going to be a games store, a games subscription service, or a chat client.
    Maybe don't raise hundreds of millions of venture capital unless you at least have a clear idea of what you're going to do.


    * by the way, why would you tell somebody that you had to look up a term when they're telling you it's a major issue? Had they done that with the press or an investor that might have cost some poor PR guy his job.

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