The "news" section has become an advertisement platform for plushies and board games

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

Can you please ban these shady new marketing practices? There is hardly a game anymore that doesn't abuse its reach on steam to sell branded junk items.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Albatross:

The "news" section has become an advertisement platform for plushies and board games

Can you please ban these shady new marketing practices? There is hardly a game anymore that doesn't abuse its reach on steam to sell branded junk items.

This is fine...

https://steamcommunity.com/games/960090/announcements/detail/3671044735525510596

https://steamcommunity.com/games/40800/announcements/detail/3667667035809358029

[UrbanMech]

That's fine? lol Those products aren't even sold on Steam.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by GhostBear:

That's fine? lol Those products aren't even sold on Steam.

Those are explicitly game related to their games.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/362680/announcements/detail/3686801155559641334

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1067540/announcements/detail/3356885688274627068

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1062140/announcements/detail/3615857954557093104

Even Valve did it way back... https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=8296

[UrbanMech]

I think the option to filter out non-game related news should be there. Yea it's the games merchandise but it has nothing to do with the video game product. It gets worse when people advertise crowd funding and donation campaigns.

The library page gets to the point that it has actual ads. It was bad enough when it was unwanted game news only before.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by GhostBear:

I think the option to filter out non-game related news should be there.

Doesn't the option to only show product updates achieve that? This one, I mean: https://imgur.com/a/BxqvXrX

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/105600/announcements/detail/3711573961520456538
https://steamcommunity.com/games/105600/announcements/detail/3711573961520338108

https://steamcommunity.com/app/548430/eventcomments/3368153731105947111/
https://steamcommunity.com/games/DeepRockGalactic/announcements/detail/4513171669139897681

[davidb11]

Yeah, these are not even remotely shady, or even remotely underhanded, bad, or wrong.
In fact, it is rather insulting to claim that.

And makes no sense.

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Yeah, these are not even remotely shady, or even remotely underhanded, bad, or wrong.
In fact, it is rather insulting to claim that.

And makes no sense.

Abusing the "update / patch news" section of a video game on a video game platform as an advertising platform for your branded merchandise, knowing that all owners of the game will get it in their feeds, even though it's not related to any game updates at all, is very shady indeed. If that doesn't make sense to you, maybe that's a problem related to your sense-making capabilities. The least they could do is to advertise their ♥♥♥♥ in a sticky on the forum instead. It's not patch news. It's shameless and misplaced advertisement for other products, exclusively made by third parties who pay a fee so they can print a big name on their junk, which no sane person would normally buy.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Albatross:

Originally posted by davidb11:

Yeah, these are not even remotely shady, or even remotely underhanded, bad, or wrong.
In fact, it is rather insulting to claim that.

And makes no sense.

Abusing the "update / patch news" section of a video game on a video game platform as an advertising platform for your branded merchandise, knowing that all owners of the game will get it in their feeds, even though it's not related to any game updates at all, is very shady indeed. If that doesn't make sense to you, maybe that's a problem related to your sense-making capabilities. The least they could do is to advertise their ♥♥♥♥ in a sticky on the forum instead. It's not patch news. It's shameless and misplaced advertisement.

The "what's new" shelf is not an "update/patch news" section. It's for game news in the broad sense, ergo news related to the game in question.

It's fine to want more option in it, sure. It's what has been lacking since the beginning. But it's not "abuse" that developers use the tool as it is intended.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by Albatross:

Originally posted by davidb11:

Yeah, these are not even remotely shady, or even remotely underhanded, bad, or wrong.
In fact, it is rather insulting to claim that.

And makes no sense.

Abusing the "update / patch news" section of a video game on a video game platform as an advertising platform for your branded merchandise, knowing that all owners of the game will get it in their feeds, even though it's not related to any game updates at all, is very shady indeed. If that doesn't make sense to you, maybe that's a problem related to your sense-making capabilities. The least they could do is to advertise their ♥♥♥♥ in a sticky on the forum instead. It's not patch news. It's shameless and misplaced advertisement for other products, exclusively made by third parties who pay a fee so they can print a big name on their junk, which no sane person would normally buy.

Why would you claim it's the update/patch news section, when it is literally called the What's new section?!
That makes literally no sense.

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

Because it's not related to the game. It's just that they want to get a percentage for whoring out their brand to third parties, who want to sell garbage to simpletons and can only do so with a big name on their trash.

Lol, you people... Normally, companies have to pay good money to spam people with ads. You are LITERALLY asking for it.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by Albatross:

Because it's not related to the game. It's just that they want to get a percentage for whoring out their brand to third parties, who want to sell garbage to simpletons and can only do so with a big name on their trash.

Lol, you people... Normally, companies have to pay good money to spam people with ads. You are LITERALLY asking for it.

Dude, you are literally making up stuff and ignoring that it is called THE WHAT'S NEW Section.
You cannot claim it bad to put stuff there that isn't patch notes.
LOL wut.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Albatross:

Because it's not related to the game. It's just that they want to get a percentage for whoring out their brand to third parties, who want to sell garbage to simpletons and can only do so with a big name on their trash.

Lol, you people... Normally, companies have to pay good money to spam people with ads. You are LITERALLY asking for it.

I'm not interested in them (albeit the plushies are cute), but it's hardly an issue for me. It's all game news and it's fine that it's there. But having more options so we can tailor what we see is always a good thing imo.

What isn't a good thing is wanting to remove something completely based on personal preference. Cause indeed other people exist that have different personal preferences.

Btw, does the option I linked in a screenshot earlier not remove those specific news posts?

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

"What's New

What's New is where developers of your games communicate about updates, tournaments, DLC, events, and other game news."

I know you're gonna claim that "other game news" includes any kind of advertisement for plastic junk with the game's name on it, even though it's not game related, only brand related. But that's really you being kids.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by Albatross:

"What's New

What's New is where developers of your games communicate about updates, tournaments, DLC, events, and other game news."

I know you're gonna claim that "other game news" includes any kind of advertisement for plastic junk with the game's name on it, even though it's not game related, only brand related. But that's really you being kids.

You're not making any sense here.
I am 40 years old, and literally no one can complain about this without being silly.