Valve have updated the developer guidelines for releasing a game on Steam, making it clear that the scourge of mobile gaming advertising-based business models are not going to work on Steam.
I realize this is in the actual Steam community so I’ll try to be gentle.
Why would they even want competitive advertisements on their product? They don’t have official ad intergration buyoneofourgames, because it would be like amazon advertising ordering and shipping from Walmart valvemustremainholy. They get advertisement dollars from the developers on their platform theiractualcustomers, they get a cut of every game sale wedon’twantlasta"lastclick"compensation, 30%fromasuccessfuladiswaymorelucrative.
Steam already has plenty of advertisement plastered through it’s entire platform youmustlogin, Iwilldefaultspamyouwithpop-upsandastorepagethatwillprobablycrash. They’ve literally locked you into their advertising model already by forcing you to open their services every time you get an inkling to play a game you’ve purchased reinforcedmentalconnectionandintegratedadvertisingftw!
It’s quite perplexing that Steam has such a huge ravenous fan club on Lemmy. You can take a singular aspect of how they conduct business to any community on here and find examples of how it’s given a pass because it’s “Steam”. I believe it’s convinced me that people really don’t mind big monopoly companies, just not ones that openly are hostile to it’s users (even then some don’t mind).
I realize this is in the actual Steam community so I’ll try to be gentle.
Why would they even want competitive advertisements on their product? They don’t have official ad intergration buy one of our games, because it would be like amazon advertising ordering and shipping from Walmart valve must remain holy. They get advertisement dollars from the developers on their platform their actual customers, they get a cut of every game sale we don’t want last a "last click" compensation, 30% from a successful ad is way more lucrative.
Steam already has plenty of advertisement plastered through it’s entire platform you must login, I will default spam you with pop-ups and a store page that will probably crash. They’ve literally locked you into their advertising model already by forcing you to open their services every time you get an inkling to play a game you’ve purchased reinforced mental connection and integrated advertising ftw!
It’s quite perplexing that Steam has such a huge ravenous fan club on Lemmy. You can take a singular aspect of how they conduct business to any community on here and find examples of how it’s given a pass because it’s “Steam”. I believe it’s convinced me that people really don’t mind big monopoly companies, just not ones that openly are hostile to it’s users (even then some don’t mind).