Comment on SteamDeck OLED Ads in the Store
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Its a lot of work to customise the store for every bit of hardware. The same way that the store suggests pc games if you browse on Mac. Remember, the store Is the same for everyone
danielquinn@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s literally one line of code to check the user agent. It’s probably not much more than that to set a value like
owns_deck=Truein the session based on the user profile.Honestly, I doubt it has anything to do with the complexity. More likely it’s laziness or maybe it just never occurred to them.
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah it’s one line of code to check the user agent but how many lines of code is it to customise each visit to the store front with only content as curated by the device the user is using. Even just user based curation is a lot of work and hard yet they do it because it draws sales. Why the hell would they spend all this work to not show you things. The steamdeck banner is probably considered as part of any promotion internally to the system so not showing it would require filtering every single promotion based on user agent and user logged in.
Trust me. It’s never just “one line of code”