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

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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zip · 2 days ago

x00z@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

They could have made their own advertising network and force it to be used instead.

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 1 day 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.