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

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

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.

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Let me guess: Valve was not getting their cut from the ad money?
- They are not, but they could have made it so. Instead they chose the win for everyone.
  
  Two things can be true at once:
  valve so far took tremendous care of the people using their product. They have outclassed afaik every other billion dollar company in the world in terms of listening to their customers and not exploiting them to hell (as others do).
  billionaire companies are cancer. If gabe ever gives up valve (through death or whatever), we are at the mercy of a monopolist that can extract as much as they want.
  My conclusion: force companies to behave like valve does now, but forever. Let them make money without exploiting people. And in case if valve: break any monopoly.
  Down with shareholder value.
  
  There’s a very good bill for achieving this result by a senator from my state, which requires companies to elect their board members through employees.
  https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/08/15/warren-co-determination-capitalism-act
  
  She's my senator as well, and I love what she's doing - but THAT bill is ~7 years old and dead in the water given the current administration. :-/
  
  There’s an alternative, to make it popular with the American people. Republicans look bad to their constituents each time they vote against policies that would relieve the American people as a whole, such as net neutrality and healthcare for all.
  Make some noise about it! Make it known that Democrats fight for everyone, and that a certain sect is very vocally rejecting that fight.
  
  But they don't fight for everyone. If they did, maybe they wouldn't be in this state.
  
  That would be a great solution. Another would be to put quotas of employees, customers, owners and the community (people living around a plant for example) in there. Just an idea though.
- something like this would also harm their business in general. Garbage like that has no place anywhere.
  
  Garbage like that has no place anywhere.
  If app developers can't get money from paid apps, then it makes sense to run ads. Especially if they do offer a paid (ad-free) version.
  But if it's a paid app already, like in Steam, it should definitely be ad-free.

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