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Inb4 Toyota ads start popping up in your Steam library.
It’s already in some games unfortunately…
That sounds like it's determined by the game developer and has nothing to do with steam.
It is, but steam does have its own form of advertising. Their front page is all ads for games and sales, go to your library there is ads for updates for your games.
It just seems to be acceptable since it’s their ecosystem content, but it’s still ads for all intent and purposes.
Yeah, for games. Ads for games on steam makes sense, you're literally browsing a shop. You won't see a random ad for a car or wtv on steam
Ads are ads, just because it from the same ecosystem is moot. I don’t need the steamdeck paraded in my face on every page I view. It’s ads
so should Steam not have any game discovery features? Is it bad for Steam to display "trending games" because it's technically advertising them by showcasing them?
If people bitch about ads, than they shouldn’t find those acceptable either. You can have a store and showcase products without the additional ads.
Ok buddy, next youre going to tell me the stuff you see on the shelves in the store are ads lmao
That’s an apt comparison actually, since yeah stores do have ads as well as products….
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I have no problem with patch notes
Except it’s for any “game news”….., so if they are peddling another game of theirs, it shows up there as well. Or we are selling a plushie, it’s there in the same place. It’s not just patch notes dude… and never has been either.
It's an ad if the update is a DLC.