Still think it’s a bit different, steam is essentially a store so I’m expecting to see a promotional banner when I walk in. Windows is a “paid” product that shows you more ads on something you already “own”.
Of fucking course Steam isn’t advertising soda, they sell games. It’s still an advertisement… just because it’s relevant to the platform you’re on doesn’t mean it’s not an advertisement.
Yes but the relevant point of the conversation was that they are not forced ads. If you don’t like them then turn them off and you’ll never see it again. That does not happen on any other storefront.
To be clear, I agree Steam letting you turn off advertisements is great, and that I can’t think of any other storefronts that do it. But while that may have been the relevant point to the original topic, it’s not the point I was commenting on. Which is why I didn’t respond to the first comment.
Exactly, I actually go thru this page every so often, just wish it would show me VR titles only, don’t care/have the drive to play flat games anymore. It would be annoying if it were ads for stuff not on steam, promote away steam
These conversations are always so weird. People are here going “yeah, Steam is the best client, but maybe it’s fine to have some competition on PC storefronts” and this army of borderline religious devotees just crawls from under the ground to tell you how when Steam does ads they’re not ads, they’re the Good Word of Gaben bestowed upon us.
Yeah, no, that’s… all consistent with what I’m saying. Yes, they are all DRM platforms. And the reason you’d want more than one of them is that a monopoly on retail is bad, whether Epic, MS, Valve or whoever else have it.
One thing being said doesn’t mean it’s the only thing being said. This, as always with this subject, is a very bizarre conversation.
So you’re complaining about some phantom conversation you may have had somewhere else?
Show me where in this comment chain someone said “maybe some competition would be good” and got push back on that. Closest I see is “the competition is bad”, not “bad that the competition exists” but “it is executed poorly”.
I agree that competition is good, nobody is complaining about GoG like they do about Epic. Saying “Fuck Epic” doesn’t mean the person doesn’t like multiple platforms existing, it means they don’t like this specific platform (and they usually say the specific reasons why).
No, not a phantom conversation, a conversation I was actually having. Here. You replied to me, not the other way around.
There are, by the way, several posts in this thread literally stating, and I quote, that “ever [sic] other platform is just ass”, “even GOG, which I always shill for, has some pretty dumb faults” and “Not on Steam? (…) the seas will provide”.
Sure doesn’t sound like it’s a Epic-specific issue. Although I’d argue the Epic-specific console wars discourse is equally silly.
It’s the sheer fanaticism and the taking of sides that gets weird, considering how inconsistent it is with other narratives often held at the same time. Kudos to Steam’s PR, but man, is it weird to see happen online.
Epic: No pop up on launch, installed games shortcuts available from the default launch page, library available in a single click.
Steam: Ads pop up on launch, default launch page is the store with no shortcut to launch your installed games, library is accessible from a pop up menu.
It’s about what each company wants the default behavior/UI of their program to be, and on that question, Epic wins since by default you can launch your games from the front page and there’s no marketing pop up when you launch the program.
What do you mean “no forced ads”? It throws up a separate window with store sales every launch?
You can turn that off.
https://majorgeeks.com/content/page/disable_steam_popups_notifications.html
You can turn that off, you know
You can turn that off in Windows as well, yet people still complained. And with good right.
Still think it’s a bit different, steam is essentially a store so I’m expecting to see a promotional banner when I walk in. Windows is a “paid” product that shows you more ads on something you already “own”.
Those are promotions, really. Not advertisements. Steam is showing me relevant video games that are available, not a sale on Coca-Cola.
Of fucking course Steam isn’t advertising soda, they sell games. It’s still an advertisement… just because it’s relevant to the platform you’re on doesn’t mean it’s not an advertisement.
Turn it off in the settings if it annoys you…
I did turn it off. That doesn’t really have anything to do with my comment though.
Go to any other storefront and see if you can turn off the ads
Also not really relevant. My only point was that they are ads.
Yes but the relevant point of the conversation was that they are not forced ads. If you don’t like them then turn them off and you’ll never see it again. That does not happen on any other storefront.
To be clear, I agree Steam letting you turn off advertisements is great, and that I can’t think of any other storefronts that do it. But while that may have been the relevant point to the original topic, it’s not the point I was commenting on. Which is why I didn’t respond to the first comment.
Exactly, I actually go thru this page every so often, just wish it would show me VR titles only, don’t care/have the drive to play flat games anymore. It would be annoying if it were ads for stuff not on steam, promote away steam
I fail to see the distinction. If I want to just play a game, it’s still getting in my way.
Turn it off then and quit complaining about something so insignificant.
Up until this thread, I had tried several times to find out how to disable it. That setting name is obviously obfuscating itself.
“notify me about promotions and new releases” is confusing?
I am screaming at the reality distortion field. I can feel my molecules being pulled into a million parallel realities just reading this.
Then stop reading. Some of you people are really aggravating.
Who people? Reality people?
These conversations are always so weird. People are here going “yeah, Steam is the best client, but maybe it’s fine to have some competition on PC storefronts” and this army of borderline religious devotees just crawls from under the ground to tell you how when Steam does ads they’re not ads, they’re the Good Word of Gaben bestowed upon us.
I don’t even like the Epic store.
Except what actually was said was:
If you’re going to call yourself a “reality person” then stick to what is actually happening in reality.
Yeah, no, that’s… all consistent with what I’m saying. Yes, they are all DRM platforms. And the reason you’d want more than one of them is that a monopoly on retail is bad, whether Epic, MS, Valve or whoever else have it.
One thing being said doesn’t mean it’s the only thing being said. This, as always with this subject, is a very bizarre conversation.
So you’re complaining about some phantom conversation you may have had somewhere else?
Show me where in this comment chain someone said “maybe some competition would be good” and got push back on that. Closest I see is “the competition is bad”, not “bad that the competition exists” but “it is executed poorly”.
I agree that competition is good, nobody is complaining about GoG like they do about Epic. Saying “Fuck Epic” doesn’t mean the person doesn’t like multiple platforms existing, it means they don’t like this specific platform (and they usually say the specific reasons why).
No, not a phantom conversation, a conversation I was actually having. Here. You replied to me, not the other way around.
There are, by the way, several posts in this thread literally stating, and I quote, that “ever [sic] other platform is just ass”, “even GOG, which I always shill for, has some pretty dumb faults” and “Not on Steam? (…) the seas will provide”.
Sure doesn’t sound like it’s a Epic-specific issue. Although I’d argue the Epic-specific console wars discourse is equally silly.
It’s the sheer fanaticism and the taking of sides that gets weird, considering how inconsistent it is with other narratives often held at the same time. Kudos to Steam’s PR, but man, is it weird to see happen online.
I think there is a toggle for this in the UI settings.
There’s less forced ads on Epic than on Steam!
I can turn off the store on Epic games launcher? I didn’t know that was an option.
Epic: No pop up on launch, installed games shortcuts available from the default launch page, library available in a single click.
Steam: Ads pop up on launch, default launch page is the store with no shortcut to launch your installed games, library is accessible from a pop up menu.
You can disable all of that on Steam, up to and including the store itself (the launch option is -no-webhelper). None of that is forced.
Edit: I believe you can also use the SteamPipe CLI, but thats less user friendly.
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It’s about what each company wants the default behavior/UI of their program to be, and on that question, Epic wins since by default you can launch your games from the front page and there’s no marketing pop up when you launch the program.
So you agree that its not forced than, unlike what you originally said. You just don’t like that its opt-out.
I’m using the term “forced” the same way the person I was replying to was using it and comparing both stores using the same criterias.
Sorry buddy, I’m not going to argue with you anymore.