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Valve bans all Steam games that force players to watch advertisements [edit: Not a new policy, see comments] (www.eurogamer.net)
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Late edit:

per https://sopuli.xyz/comment/14584874 & https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lhsxkmaj7c2c this is not a new policy.

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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 179 points 1 week ago (30 children)

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.

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 42 points 1 week ago (10 children)

This is exactly why I don't play games on mobile.

I absolutely don't have the time to wade through that shit.

about a year ago, I was like, "It'd be nice to have a few mindless games on my phone"... tried like four... just ADS ADS ADS...

Even the ones where I liked the game, and wanted to just remove the ad bullshit for a price... nothing...

[–] GTac@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah it's really hard to find the few normal ones.

I don't like promoting Netflix but I was surprised how many good phone games you can get with your subscription, like Hades, Civilization 6 or Rise of the golden idol. Doesn't seem to me like phone games are a good match for Netflix but hey these good games are free now for me.

Also Balatro is great on the phone

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Seems like phone games are a good match if it makes even %1 of their subscription's stick around. Gives you another excuse to not cancel a subscription that's slowly losing it's value over time.

Jesus, Netflix games.... my mind is still baffled.

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