Valve bans mandatory ads in the steam store
(www.tomshardware.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (28)
sorted by:
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.