Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games
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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.
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Valve are the ones that popularized loot boxes. They're never going to tackle them.
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sorts by controversial
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A good move. Nip that shit in the bud right now.
The mobile stores are fucking unusable, a sea of ad-ridden garbage.
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Mate, they practically invented them.
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But they don't fight for everyone. If they did, maybe they wouldn't be in this state.
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Well you can prevent it on Steam. And I don't think Epic really have an ad network to abuse for this either.
If you see Google launch a "free game only" store for PC, get worried. Although Google being Google, it will be deleted within two years anyway.
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Aside from drop rates everything you said applies to Valve too. Counter Strike skins can be traded or sold for real cash (tied to steam wallet, but still), and you can purchase singles of what you want.
I know other games loot boxes dont follow this, but its interesting for the sake of comparison.
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I didn't see that permission when I looked for it
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Probably custom ROM only
