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Valve doesn't sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: 'We don't think Steam should be pay-to-win' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the biggest piece, smaller but worth mentioning is they make money off of our purchases directly unlike Google.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's why they do promote say sales, because they still get the same cut and might see more revenue out of it. Selling general ads doesn't fit with what they're going for, but they do aggressively push ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which aggressive ads?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they mean the ads that popup occasionally when starting steam

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those can be turned off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have nothing against them personally but they are undoubtedly advertising and are turned on by default.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but hardly aggressive. They only popup when you start steam. If you leave it running, even with the option on, you never see them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I dunno pushing ads on every boot seems at least a bit aggressive (remember that steam auto starts by default on Windows).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Both still optional. You can easily turn off both boot with OS and the ads it's serving.

Aggressive to me is non-optional, in-your-face type crap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For me, aggressive doesn't necessarily have to mean non-optional.