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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by Pfhreak on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:21PM (#22295430)
Search inside for the 'Game Development Policy', it's separate from the intellectual property commitment. Reasoning is likely from Amazon Games Studios? I think there may be a concern that someone at Amazon might make the next flappy bird or Minecraft and Amazon couldn't capitalize on it.
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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by mantap on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:42AM (#22297990)
If it's in your own free time on your own hardware why would Amazon be able to capitalize on it? Employees are not slaves.
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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by testvox on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:54AM (#22298052)
Salaried employees don't have free time.
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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by mantap on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:18AM (#22298204)
I'm going to assume this is sarcasm.
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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by lonelappde on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @09:02AM (#22298511)
Noncompete agreements are legal in many places outside California
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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by whatsmyusername on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:54PM (#22295597)
The one time I met an Amazon games studio employee my response was, “Amazon has a games studio?”

He said it was a common response.

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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by cloakandswagger on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:14PM (#22295694)
This is the only rationale I can come up with for the game development policy: AGS hasn't produced anything in 8 years and what they have in the pipeline looks disappointing so...cross your fingers and hope one of your employees makes the next Minecraft.
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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by Pfhreak on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:02PM (#22295639)
Heh. I worked in Amazon Games for a bit. It was a very common question. Along with, "What games have they made?" (Breakaway a 'sports brawler', The Grand Tour game a tie in for the show, New World an mmo about being a colonizer, Crucible a third person shooter.)
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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by JamesBarney on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:11AM (#22296674)
Woah, totally surprised by the New World mmo.

That looks like a PR landmine.

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