@[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]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”
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”