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   Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 01:51:56 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

   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/

   #Steam #Gaming #PCGaming

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     Lone Spelunker (lonespelunker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 02:00:09 JST Lone Spelunker

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     @gamingonlinux this is great news.

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     ikanreed (ikanreed@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 02:06:23 JST ikanreed

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     @gamingonlinux it's a good thing, but their motives are not fundamentally different than the app store disallowing 3rd party stores.

     Sometimes corporate greed aligns with consumer interest, but usually not.

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 02:21:04 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     • Marc

     @mdiluz yep precisely, it annoying users is just a general win for it being banned

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     Marc (mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 02:21:05 JST Marc

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     @gamingonlinux FWIW this is surely mainly to prevent F2P ad-funded games publishing and distributing on Steam and Valve not taking a single penny

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     Jack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon) (jackracc@furry.engineer)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 02:30:19 JST Jack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon)

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     @gamingonlinux big implications for all those game launchers if true (and if the rules are granular enough to disallow them in the launchers too)

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 02:30:19 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     • Jack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon)

     @JackRacc what game launchers force you to watch adverts to play the games? none I've ever heard of

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 02:51:05 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     • Jack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon)

     @JackRacc no, there's absolutely nothing stated about devs advertising their own games - that's not an advert business model

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     Jack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon) (jackracc@furry.engineer)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 02:51:06 JST Jack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon)

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     @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.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:16:58 JST Børge

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     @gamingonlinux Very good!

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     Lambheart Studios (lambheartstudios@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 07:04:26 JST Lambheart Studios

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     @gamingonlinux Thanks, Gaben!

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 20:33:32 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     Updated: it was already a rule as it turns out, but now far more visible. Added a note to the top.