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 threadJack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon)Feb 9, 2025
@gamingonlinux big implications for all those game launchers if true (and if the rules are granular enough to disallow them in the launchers too)
Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Feb 9, 2025
@JackRacc what game launchers force you to watch adverts to play the games? none I've ever heard of
Show threadJack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon)
@gamingonlinux while not a forced ad, Unigine Heaven and/or Valley both have a "Oil Rush" ad in the launcher. That's where I want to know if launcher ads are likely their way to compensate the gameplay halts no longer being allowed. We all know what happened to Skype.
Feb 9, 2025 at 5:47pmWeb
Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Feb 9, 2025
@JackRacc no, there's absolutely nothing stated about devs advertising their own games - that's not an advert business model
Show threadJack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon)Feb 9, 2025
@gamingonlinux so advertising integration, Eg. Nissan or Nokia ads on game environment billboards in Quantum Break, don't fall under these new rules. (Quantum Break is a Microsoft funded game)
Show threadJoFeb 9, 2025
@JackRacc @gamingonlinux Oil Rush is literally their own game.