How would Steam get paid for their services if all your income was from ads?
Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games
Submitted 3 months ago by ZippyBot@lemmy.zip [bot] to gaming@lemmy.zip
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Well, they could just require publishers to share the ad revenue.
x00z@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They could have made their own advertising network and force it to be used instead.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
hubobes@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Valve is such a weird company, on ome hand they do things like this, on the other hand there ia CS gambling.
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 months 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?
derek@infosec.pub 3 months 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.
bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
They were also one of the first companies to put ads in video games with CS1.6.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Burnout Paradise woulda been banned from Steam.
nieminen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t remember ads in that game when I played it on the PS3
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
That’s awesome! Good that they keep a bar of minimum quality.