[STEAM] Amazon Luna is killing off third-party library support, with save files not ‘guaranteed’ to work on other platforms

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After deciding not to compete with Steam, it seems

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doesn't even want to compete with other cloud services, continuing the trend of downsizing its gaming departments more and more. This time around, it's cutting down its Luna cloud service by disallowing players from playing games on their own third-party platforms and not guaranteeing their saves will carry over.

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will bar you from playing games via the "Bring Your Own Library" function, which previously allowed players to stream titles through Luna no matter where they bought them. You'll still be able to use the service as such by June 10, which is when all your third-party purchases will be rendered unusable on Luna.

You'll get to keep the games on those platforms and be able to play them elsewhere, as well as rent some of them via Luna's pricier Premium tier, so the games aren't exactly going away from the platform.

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Luna is, like Xbox Cloud Gaming, a cloud-based service that lets you stream games rather than rendering them natively. Image via

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From that fact, it is only logical that we conclude that

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wants you to upgrade to a higher tier and stream these games via Luna itself, rather than buying them on the side and using the standard option (included with

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Prime) to enjoy games bought on other storefronts. To add to that,

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also doesn't guarantee that save files, which will be downloadable for 90 days after June 10, will work on machines and services outside of Luna itself.

So if you were playing through something and wanted to see it completed, you've got about two months or so left before Luna presses the kill switch on third-party stores. Ubisoft+ and Jackbox Games will also no longer be sold via Luna, which is par for the course with this decision.

Anyhow, other cloud services keep expanding and are at least trying to make themselves viable in this day and age, where everyone owns a good machine, whether that's a console or a PC. Xbox's Cloud Gaming and Nvidia's GeForce Now remain solid options, but I'll tell you what I tell everyone when it comes to this topic: just save up, get your own PC, and never rely on another's whim or will.

The cloud is just another person's PC, so keep that in mind.

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