Valve bans mandatory ads in the steam store
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So ban that garbage walking simulator Death Stranding then. Also that Cyberpunk 2077 trash.
Death Stranding self removed the Monster cans years ago whenever the definitive edition came out, which is currently the only version for sale. Idk if they back ported that change in a patch or not. Either way that just leaves the cheeky line where Norman Reedus talks about Norman Reedus' tv show, afaik.
The article states that product placements are permissible.
Like all those Doritos in the 2009 Ghostbusters game?
Still the greatest Ghostbusters video game ever made, BY FAR, but I hated those constant Doritos logos.
And I normally love those chips.
I was directly responding to him that Death Stranding no longer had any, so this wouldn't effect it regardless.
I guess I don't see the point in this stance from Valve then. Some product placements are so jarring that they might as well be direct ads, which is obviously the whole point in including them in games in the first place.
That's good. That was the most fourth-wall breaking thing I'd ever seen in a game to that point.
It was good the first few times, unfortunately it plays too often if you ride bikes. Which you will late game because you've built roads.
What product placement is in Cyberpunk 2077? I never played it, but I thought all the brands were various fictional megacorps and such.
Keanu Reeves' motorcycles. Part of his extremely lucrative contract to work on the game was he got to advertise his real-life motorcycle company in-game. "Arch" or whatever it's called.
Interesting. That wouldn’t bother me because I wouldn’t even recognize it as a real company, but I see how it might be weird if you did notice it.