Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zip · 14 days ago

Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 14 days ago

How would Steam get paid for their services if all your income was from ads?

MudMan@fedia.io · 14 days ago

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.

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 8 days ago

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.