Valve bans mandatory ads in the steam store
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thank god.
As happy as I am they did this, I can't help but wonder if it's in part because they can't monetize ads on steam lol.
It will cut down on people producing iOS games and then uploading them to steam for seemingly no reason though which is nice
Businesses will rarely do anything out of pure altruism, its our job to try and make sure their movements align with our own desires. That's how capitalism is supposed to work, training them to give us what we want through dollars.
Which is why Steam always seems to be unique among its competitors. It recognizes what the consumer wants and makes some efforts towards that, and even when it fails to do so its usually still leaps better than the Actively Malicious and Working Against You rest of the market.
He is a true business man at heart. He truly believes if you make a good product, people will buy it.
The problem is big businesses have removed that mentality and replaced it with “Pay us for the illusion of a good product.”
Businesses these days are rent-seekers. Steam is no different, except Valve will actually fix things sometimes instead of slumlording it up.
On the other hand, a brief bit of internet research suggests that, if you don't use Steam for your in-app purchases- which is not mandated- you don't have to pay them a cut, which is surely more valuable than in-game ads.