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Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

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Valve have updated the developer guidelines for releasing a game on Steam, making it clear that the scourge of mobile gaming advertising-based business models are not going to work on Steam.

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Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

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Fuck ads based business, they are cancer. Deny the parasite engagement.
- Still waiting on a good sports games not ruined by ea
  
  sports vidya game gamers are the most cucked market segment within the gaming market...
  my condolences.
  
  You mean like Mutant Football League 1 and 2??
  
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/529520/Mutant_Football_League/
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1657320/Mutant_Football_League_2/
  If you want a local multiplayer arcade basketball game check out Dunk Lords
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/612640/Dunk_Lords/
  If you want a shockingly good local multiplayer arcade volleyball game check out Super Volley Blast (seriously how is this game so good, it is just volleyball??)
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/822040/Super_Volley_Blast
  it looks like the same indie devs have an arcade tennis local multiplayer game too called Super Tennis Blast but I haven't personally tried it yet like I have the rest of these games
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1050510/Super_Tennis_Blast/?curator_clanid=34945402
  If you are willing to stretch your definition of "sport" here a bit check out the local multiplayer handball brawler Hyper Brawl
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/591760/HyperBrawl_Tournament/
  Lastly, check out the airhockey meets top down action team based hero game Omega Strikers. This game isn't pay-to-win and it really deserves a lot of love! Don't pass it over just because it looks like it could be another live-service casino disguised as a game.
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869590/Omega_Strikers
  edit silly me I forget to recommend the absolutely phenomenal Lethal League Blaze
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/553310/Lethal_League_Blaze
  fuck you EA
  edit 2 - does Rock Of Ages count as a sports game? It certainly has lots of balls, a clear goal for those balls to go in and a set of sensible and logical rules to how those balls get there which leads to mythical stories about heroes, sounds like a sportball game to me so what if the sportball is made of living sheep
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1101360/Rock_of_Ages_3_Make__Break
  
  This is just Blood Bowl, but in real time.
  I am immediately sold on this.
  
  I can confidently tell you your impulse isn't brash here, Mutant Football League is exactly what you think it is, has splitscreen and is fucking awesome.
  I honestly don't even give a shit about 'murican football, it doesn't even matter (though make no mistake, this game has good arcade football gameplay, it isn't "just a joke game"), Mutant Football League is a journey on a road paved with footballs but it is about the experience along the way not what type of sportsball the road was paved with that you walked your pilgrimage on.

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