Make the annoying ads go away?

[Jolly]

Is there any way to make the incredibly annoying and huge ads, like the one for watch dogs, go away / hide / die ?

I like Steam, I buy a ton of games thru steam. I hate advertising. I hate spam. I hate eye pollution. I knew Watch Dogs was releasing today and has been approaching for months now even though I have zero interest in it. I don't need an obnoxious advertisement taking up half of my steam window. It's irritating.

[wadedylan]

hear hear

[Hanomaly]

Maybe it's up at the top where you see (Steam - View - Friends - Games - Help). If you do Steam > Settings > Interface > "Notify me about additions od changes to my games, new releases, and upcoming release"??

Maybe uncheck that? i'm not sure if that's the setting.. but...

i do know i have that unchecked... and don't get those steam-related ads. And.. a friend who has that checkmarked does get the ads. so maybe try it? If that doesn't work look through your other settings, perhaps?

[FFL2and3rocks]

That just stops the popups. The big banners on the main store page for big releases like Watchdogs can't be disabled.

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by FFL2and3rocks:

That just stops the popups. The big banners on the main store page for big releases like Watchdogs can't be disabled.

Oh ya, that's true. For whatever reason i barely notice the ones on the main store page >.< they don't bother me. i didn't consider that was what Jolly was talking about.

[ KARR™]

It's a shop where publishers can pay for more advertising space.
"Annoying adverts" is what it is about!!!

Its like walking into a supermarket and saying "i dont like beans, get that big bean poster away from me!".

[Kickin' Chicken]

Yeah, let's get rid of them on TV, too!

[Jolly]

Originally posted by KARR:

It's a shop where publishers can pay for more advertising space.
"Annoying adverts" is what it is about!!!

Its like walking into a supermarket and saying "i dont like beans, get that big bean poster away from me!".

I would disagree since I don't store my food at a supermarket (the way I store and manage my games with Steam), I don't hang out or keep my friends at a supermarket (like one can with steam), and I don't prepare my food at a supermarket (as one must run their steam games thru steam), and so on. Ie, Steam is much more than just a store.

One reason I like Steam as a store is that it's not obnoxious but with these huge screen raping ads that changes to the complete opposite and it becomes overwhelmingly obnoxious.

[Jolly]

Right now the banner is for Cry Engine. I need a 1/3 of my screen taken up by a product that almost nobody is buying since most of us are not game developers. Amazingly stupid ad, amazing waste of screen space.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Going to the store page is like going to the supermarket. You will get advertisements.

You can always set Steam to start in library view instead. That along with disabling the pop-up ads makes it to where you can play your games with never having to see an ad.

The Cryengine is a high profile program. It would make sense to have it predominantly displayed on it's release.

Don't want ads? Don't go to the store. Just because a few are not interested doesn't mean many others are not.