Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Feb 9, 2025

Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/valve-ban-advertising-based-business-models-on-steam-no-forced-adverts-like-in-mobile-games/

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

Valve have updated the developer guidelines for releasing a game on Steam, making it clear that the scourge of mobile gaming advertising-based business models are not going to work on Steam.

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Show threadPresident Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew CamachoFeb 9, 2025
This is fantastic. I look forward to the debates about what is and is not "advertising". I seem to recall Ubisoft having some ads in their games...
Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
@DeShawnFranco that's not what's being discussed here at all
Feb 9, 2025 at 5:27pmWeb
Show threadPresident Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew CamachoFeb 9, 2025
It's an advertisement in a game?
Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Feb 9, 2025
@DeShawnFranco it's not paid advertising, a business model, this is just a developer highlighting their other games