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

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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zip · 14 days ago

hubobes@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 13 days ago

Valve is such a weird company, on one hand they do things like this, on the other hand there is CS gambling.

bollybing@lemmynsfw.com · 13 days ago

They were also one of the first companies to put ads in video games with CS1.6.