@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 years agoValve 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.comexternal-linkmessage-square158fedilinkarrow-up11.09K
arrow-up11.09Kexternal-linkValve 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@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square158fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•2 years agoSteam is a store. Why would they try and sell you someone else’s goods? LMAO.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•2 years agoYeah, isn’t literally everything they have on steam and advertisement?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoOnly if companies are paying more for what you’re seeing. The classic example would be loosely related games showing at the top of search results because some paid for them to be sponsored posts. Or something like that
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•2 years agoAmazon is also a store, but they have sponsored listings that get preferential placement. Not technically ads, but very similar idea…
minus-squareDym SohinlinkfedilinkEnglish9•2 years agohere’s the kicker: amazon sells their own product at the public market owned by amazon, undercutting any other seller on near-exact things. imagine if valve made knockoffs of every famous game and just redirected every search to them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-22 years agoI hate how easy it is to imagine a non-tangible variation of something they do in a tangible sense. For anyone unfamiliar: They call this “enshittifcation”
Steam is a store.
Why would they try and sell you someone else’s goods?
LMAO.
Yeah, isn’t literally everything they have on steam and advertisement?
Only if companies are paying more for what you’re seeing.
The classic example would be loosely related games showing at the top of search results because some paid for them to be sponsored posts. Or something like that
Amazon is also a store, but they have sponsored listings that get preferential placement. Not technically ads, but very similar idea…
here’s the kicker: amazon sells their own product at the public market owned by amazon, undercutting any other seller on near-exact things.
imagine if valve made knockoffs of every famous game and just redirected every search to them.
I hate how easy it is to imagine a non-tangible variation of something they do in a tangible sense.
For anyone unfamiliar: They call this “enshittifcation”