This is great.
This is only happening because it's a pain in the ass for them to monetize it right now.
It does not mean they won't in the future.
Hopefully this type of thing continues as SteamOS gets released and maintained. 💜💪
It's not just a pain in the ass, it's not possible. That's why they're banning it.
Good.
valve would basically have to become an 'advertising company' and require these types of games to use the 'valve ad network', in addition to the storefront for in-game sales, in order for valve to profit from them.
i don't think valve is necessarily 'against' the business model, as it has proven to be rather profitable for the big hits and big players.. and valve is in the business of making lots of money. rather, it's that valve doesn't want to become that advertising company. at least, not at the present time.
Didn't the 2k sports games have ads of real stuff included for "immersion"? Never played one, so I wouldn't know, but I heard about them.
If you read the article, it's targeting things like "ads you must watch to progress" and "rewards for watching ads". So literally targeting the very worst of the mobile game ad industry.
They should make an exception for cyberpunk games, for added immersion
Fuck that! Do the work and design fake companies and products. Thats half the fun walking around a store in any video game. Seeing the funny names and references they come up with.
I don’t want to see fucking ads for anything that’s a real product being pushed in my face in ANY MANNER in video games!
Buy Sprunk!
Technically every game is a cyberpunk game because we live in a cyberpunk dystopia.
Cyberpunk games would be fine, these rules are about forcing players to watch an ad to experience parts of the game, like when a mobile game makes you watch an ad before you can continue playing after beating a level or when you can watch an ad to get more coins/gems or whatever. Having ads in the game itself isn't being banned.
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