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Some youngsters sometimes get confused so:
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Didn’t Steam explicitly ban in-game ads? At least a large portion of PC gamers won’t have to deal with this BS.
Did they? Just searched the web and, voila you are right: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/valve-clarifies-ban-on-in-game-advertising-on-steam Now they do not link to the page they cite (bad habit, I hate that), so let me quickly find the source… aaand there it is: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/advertising
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- Developers should not utilize paid advertising as a business model in their game, such as requiring players to watch or otherwise engage with advertising in order to play, or gating gameplay behind advertising. If your game’s business model relies on advertising on other platforms, you will need to remove those elements before shipping on Steam. Some options you could consider include switching to a single purchase “paid app,” or making your game free to play with optional upgrades sold via Microtransactions or Downloadable Content (DLC).
- Developers should not use advertising as a way to provide value to players, such as giving players a reward for watching or engaging with advertising in their game.
- Developers should not charge other developers for access to Steam features. These include sale pages, bundles, store pages, franchise pages, etc.
That doesn’t discuss pause screen ads, unfortunately.
Developers should not utilize paid advertising as a business model in their game.
If they accept money to show those pause screen ads, that’s part of their business model and it wouldn’t be allowed.
I’m no lawyer, so I’m sure some corporate goon (on either side) will find loopholes to do whatever they want, but the idea is to ban mobile-style F2P games where you show ads alongside gameplay or “watch ads to refill your play meter” as your only revenue stream. Some other kinds of in-game advertising are still allowed. Unfortunately.
Yes. Pause screens seem not to fall under these categories. Valve will probably update this page to clarify on this, either to allow or to ban. So its worth keeping an eye on this page for changes.
Gross. Maybe Steam will start listing “In Game Advertising” along with the AI warning on the store pages.
You know what?
I think I actually WILL buy that Atari 2600+ after all…
Ban advertising entirely.
Look at the bright side: other companies that want to do this will be discouraged by having to pay Microsoft a royalty until the patent expires in 20 years
Between this bullshit and Sony, and Nintendo speedrunning user alienation, guess I’m not buying another console. Bummer really… I hope ram comes down in price after the AI bubble bursts.
“Nintendo speedrunning user alienation”
Maybe I’m out of the loop but how so? They’ve seemed fine to me, easily the best of the big three of late.
You’re not wrong, they are in a way the best of the three, but they also sue a lot of their users. What I have in mind is all of those YouTube streamers that they sued just for people playing video games on YouTube. It’s free advertisement, and it’s so stupid. Why would you ever do that? And yet, I think they’re still doing it.
That’s only because they had the smallest price increases and still maintain that owning a switch 2 cartridge still counts as owning the game. That cartridge is still just a download key tho. No actual game on that thing.
Regarding price increases, I don’t blame the game companies as much as the world’s current infatuation with AI data centres. When it comes to carts, most Switch/2 games are still on carts, and while I don’t like GKCs, at least they can be traded, lent, and sold, which can’t be said for PlayStation’s all digital future.
Yeah, they can set the prices as whatever they feel like. The market will respond as it does. Nintendo handled communication the best compared to the competition was all I was saying.
been really getting into emulation, and pirating games.
honestly. i could live the rest of my life without touching a modern console or AAA game, and id be all the happier for it. but if i can rip a decent fitgirl repack. sure. why not.
im not paying for something they say we dont own after the purchase.
What the fuck is happening? Why are corpos speedrunning to make everything noticeably worse?
Before it felt like tiptoes forward, but now they’re taking massive, fucking goosesteps to colonize new frontiers of terrible practices.
There’s more distracting news than ever before and they think they can get away with it and probably also have fomo.
Well, another parameter to take into account when buying games, along with Denuvo and other shits… Its hard to keep up 🤣
Buy xbox, it’s best console, they are good guys because they invested in Kojima after they lay off thousands of people.
Time To Pirate
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