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Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Now let's see if they address underage gambling.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Age is not what's wrong with charging money inside video games.

Ban the entire business model.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TF2 pioneered the modern micro transaction hellscape we're all stuck with. And it still makes money despite almost a decade without a major update.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

We were never going to shop our way out of it.

Only legislation will fix this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They won't because they're the ones making money from it. The only reason they care about this is likely because they don't get money from ads as they don't have any related advertising business like Google and Apple does.

It's the same as when they kicked EA off of steam. EA allowed buying DLC without going through Steam. If they're not getting a cut, but you are being hosted/distributed by them, they don't want it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They won’t because they’re the ones making money from it.

I was (trying to) be tongue in cheek about it, so yes of course they won't. I just don't like the idea of propping up Valve as some incorruptible, can-do-no-wrong company. They know they're causing children to gamble and it's not that they don't care, they actively encourage it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I really can't think of how they would stop this.

Like genuinely.

The sites that manage these gambling rings aren't owned by Valve, and reporting the sites doesn't get them taken down by the domain providers.

In Steam the trades look the same as any regular trades between players, so if they wanted to stop the gambling trades it would require turning off all trades.

Do you know if anyone has come up with some way they could track and stop the gambling sites?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So no recognition of any good until they are perfect?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I'd put intentionally getting kids to gamble pretty fucking far below 'perfect.'