- Amazon Luna is dropping game purchases, third-party stores, and Luna-sold Ubisoft Plus and Jackbox subscriptions today.
- Previously purchased and Bring Your Own Library games stay playable on Luna until June 10.
- Amazon says it is simplifying Luna, but affected players are clearly losing options.___
Stick with 2 day shipping, audiobooks, and tv shows Amazon. Gaming isn’t it for you.
That just sounds dumb. Amazon has been selling digital PC games since 2009 and it’s just about the most bare bones digital PC games store out there. Luna from my testing has great quality but a puny library. For local download and install gaming, it’s barely any more convenient than like itch.io. It’s takes the top spot as the most comically poor run digital games platform across consoles, mobile, pc because they been at it for 17 years while being one of the worlds largest companies all that time that also happens to specialize in both physical goods and digital goods retail. It’s incredible how bad they are at this and how few people actually know that Amazon has been selling digital PC games for 17 years
I’ve been posting the games they give away for free for two years now and I’d never even considered that they actually sell digital games too
Back in 2009 I was a lot more naive and optimistic. I really believed Steam needed competition to improve and needed major competition. I was pretty excited to see Amazon doing a store and Microsoft doing Games for Windows Live (until I learned they were charging to play online multiplayer and had a 3 time install limit until you had to call support to get that reset). I was excited for EA Origin. I kept Impulse installed. The only store that got better was Steam. In the case of Origin and Uplay, they got worse. GFWL died and the Windows 8/10 Store was worse. EA never changed. GOG at least released GOG Galaxy. Amazon never improved. Desura died. Bethesda Game Launcher and Rockstar Club were trash since day one. Battle.net/Blizzard was stable but just Blizzard games and I think a CoD showed up one year. EGS came out without a shopping cart and no user reviews. Steam kept getting better
I once tried to use Amazon Prime Music and the app ended up being incredibly crappy and the catalog poorly handling artists with the same name. I quit Kindles when I realized Amazon was more out of touch than Microsoft
What do you even get from a Luna subscription? Just a Amazon-only rental library of games?
Luna is primarily a cloud gaming platform, where you can also purchase and download some games.
Both options have ridiculously limited selections, but you can occasionally (like right now) get some free gog keys out of it, and Epic store keys if you’re a masochistic little femboy.
yeah its kinda like whats the point. I wonder if theis is prep for throwing in the towel all together.
