How would Steam get paid for their services if all your income was from ads?
Damn, I was coming here to say this is a meaningful curation step and I couldn’t give Steam my usual cynical reality check, but you found the angle and now I can’t unsee it.
I don’t think it’s cynical. Their review model would make it very hard to make payment fair (we can always argue about whether Steam overcharges for its services) since it would be a pain in the butt to track income from advertisement.
But the advertisement business model makes for worse games. I think it makes great sense for Steam to ban them. And if games on Steam are better then that’s good for game developers that use their platform.
Valve is such a weird company, on one hand they do things like this, on the other hand there is CS gambling.
I just don’t see how they are responsible for CS gambling.
They created an open market, where people can trade and sell their items. Just like people want, instead of being locked down in the game you play at the time.
Of course people are going to gamble with the items, just like they do with anything else you can trade. but how is that not a regulatory issue and instead paved on valve?
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