Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games
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common Valve W
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Let me guess: Valve was not getting their cut from the ad money?
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Two things can be true at once:
- valve so far took tremendous care of the people using their product. They have outclassed afaik every other billion dollar company in the world in terms of listening to their customers and not exploiting them to hell (as others do).
- billionaire companies are cancer. If gabe ever gives up valve (through death or whatever), we are at the mercy of a monopolist that can extract as much as they want.
My conclusion: force companies to behave like valve does now, but forever. Let them make money without exploiting people. And in case if valve: break any monopoly.
Down with shareholder value.
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Related: https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/
Unity games on mobile send your location to Unity servers every couple seconds through the Unity ad network.
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something like this would also harm their business in general, like letting someone take a shit on the bakery floor.
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I agree with the overall sentiment, however:
Lootboxes are at least a conscious action you must take. They definitely have the same problems as gambling (because that's what they are), but you can also choose not to engage with them. Ads however, are forced upon you, and do things that you cannot see (track you) and cannot turn off.
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They won't, because loot boxes are their main source of income.
And this is exactly why "good companies" like Valve cannot save us. Good companies will never be a substitute for good regulations.
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There’s a very good bill for achieving this result by a senator from my state, which requires companies to elect their board members through employees.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/08/15/warren-co-determination-capitalism-act
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Garbage like that has no place anywhere.
If app developers can't get money from paid apps, then it makes sense to run ads. Especially if they do offer a paid (ad-free) version.
But if it's a paid app already, like in Steam, it should definitely be ad-free.
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That would be a great solution. Another would be to put quotas of employees, customers, owners and the community (people living around a plant for example) in there. Just an idea though.
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I read that games with ads were already banned from Steam a long time ago. That explains why we don't have more junk in the Steam store. Judging by how many never completed early access asset flip games there are, it would be a complete cesspool with ad-supported games. Good decision by Valve.
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There’s an alternative, to make it popular with the American people. Republicans look bad to their constituents each time they vote against policies that would relieve the American people as a whole, such as net neutrality and healthcare for all.
Make some noise about it! Make it known that Democrats fight for everyone, and that a certain sect is very vocally rejecting that fight.
