miskFeb 10, 2025

Valve bans all Steam games that force players to watch advertisements

https://sopuli.xyz/post/22463115

Valve bans all Steam games that force players to watch advertisements - Sopuli

Lemmy

Show threadMeldrikFeb 10, 2025

They should do the same on the Play and App Store.

There’s even games where you can pay to remove ads, but it will still ask you if you wanna watch an ad to get a bonus or some shit. Fuck that.

Show threadstringereFeb 10, 2025
Yes, that’s yet another dark pattern.
You can use this site to help with your game choices.
Deceptive Patterns (aka Dark Patterns) - spreading awareness since 2010

The original website about deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) - tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.

Show threadDyskolos
Totally don’t care for mobile games, but this, for sure, is one very helpful resource to comb through this pile of rabble.
Feb 11, 2025 at 1:09pmWeb