Thank god

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 month ago

    Keeps users in their wallet garden. Marketers love shoving shit in users faces whenever they launch the game. Inside the game it’s bad for. To advertise whatever other garbage there is, on their launcher they try to grab your attention for their other crap

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      1 month ago

      But see, that’s the thing. They’re just as capable of putting those ads in game too. I definitely would have more visibility on the ads just at the title screen than I would on a launcher I’m clicking through as fast as humanly possible.

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        1 month ago

        Then they’d have to update the actual game, as opposed to just updating the launcher when a change needs to be made.

        Updating the launcher is quicker and cheaper.

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        1 month ago

        If they can convert purchase within their launcher, they don’t pay Steam their cut. That’s it.

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      1 month ago

      …wallet garden? So…like a garden where they grow wallets for you to eat?

      I mean, if that’s in your taste palate, bone apple tea, I guess…