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

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• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s awesome! Good that they keep a bar of minimum quality.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, they could just require publishers to share the ad revenue.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They could have made their own advertising network and force it to be used instead.

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They could. That takes a lot more employees than they have and would mean that they were the place with all the shitty free games.

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• hubobes@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Valve is such a weird company, on ome hand they do things like this, on the other hand there ia CS gambling.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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, but how is that not a regulatory issue and instead paved on valve?

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    • derek@infosec.pub ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lootboxes.

      Players have a random chance of getting crate while playing the game. Each crate is a pool of item cosmetics with various levels of rarity. To acquire one of them the player must purchase a one-use key with real money. Expending the key on a crate initiates a die roll that determines which cosmetic is unlocked.

      That’s the gambling they’re responsible for. What gambling players may of afterward is not the same conversation.

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    • kabi@lemm.ee ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You kinda missed the part where you get the skins by gambling in the first place. A ton of the gambling sites just emulate that and be done with it.

      And then Valve uses the same underhanded tactics to get around gambling regulations. In France, players had (have?) to buy a certain skin before they can gamble open cases, and they can see the result of the case before “actually” opening it (but they can’t open anything else before they do), because all this makes it not gambling, I guess.

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  • bollybing@lemmynsfw.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They were also one of the first companies to put ads in video games with CS1.6.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Burnout Paradise woulda been banned from Steam.

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  • nieminen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t remember ads in that game when I played it on the PS3

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