Valve Cracks Down By Banning Steam Games With Ads

Valve is Cracking Down on Steam Games With Forced Advertising
Valve further enforced its ban on promotional advertising in games on Steam, expanding on previously established rules on the platform.
Valve Has Now Banned Games on Steam That Require Players to Watch Paid Advertising
Valve has always had a strong stance on paid advertising, going as far as to ban games on Steam that have them.
Valve Bans Titles With Obligatory In-Game Ads From Steam
Valve has quietly updated its Steam guidelines to prohibit games that contain obligatory in-game ads. Going forward, games that require players to watch or engage with marketing material are out, as are titles that offer rewards for engaging with ads.
Valve Bans Games That Make You Watch Ads To Keep Playing On Steam
Valve has introduced new rules for their game developers, to reverse trends that most gamers may not have realized was already happening on their platform. As reported by GamingOnLinux, they have revised their rules to ban games that require to to watch ads to keep playing. They use this language on the revisions:
Valve has taken further steps to ban exploitative game mechanics
Valve has reiterated its stance against exploitative in-game advertising, threatening to ban any game that uses these mechanics.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox
"You Will Need To Remove Those Elements": Valve Cracks Down By Banning Steam Games With Ads
Steam has officially banned games that force players to watch ads, or grant in-game rewards for watching ads, in a historic move for the platform.
Steam makes its ban on games that rely on in-game ads even more explicit, so no 'watch this to continue playing' stuff will be making its way to our PCs
Valve has had a ban on these kinds of in-game ads in Steam games for the last five years at minimum, viewable on its pricing ...
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Steam Adds Clarifying Documentation Regarding What Ads Are Allowed In Games On The Platform
Valve has created a dedicated page describing that in-game ads or ad-based revenue models are not allowed in Steam games. ...