nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year 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-square199fedilinkarrow-up11.1Karrow-down116
arrow-up11.08Karrow-down1external-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.comnanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square199fedilink
minus-squareIMALlama@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 year agoAmazon is also a store, but they have sponsored listings that get preferential placement. Not technically ads, but very similar idea…
minus-squareDym Sohin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year 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-squarewhale@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year 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”