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Technically we do pay for TV. Cable Service Provider? DirecTV? Dish Network?You pay for the platform, not the individual shows. Windows is a platform. We pay for it. Does that mean we are entitled to free software without ads? Don't be silly, the people who make the software don't get paid by Microsoft.
That's why I'm saying it would make sense for Steam to have ads. It's a platform that's free for us, so why not give us ads? But we pay full price for games and now have to be jarred back to reality whenever we see an ad that's clearly targeted to players, not in-game characters.
FAF, you are the man. This is my single biggest problem with in-game ads. Valve hit it big with HL1 because the game had an unprecedented amount of immersion for an FPS, while at the same time offering meaty depth to the gameplay. HL2 and HL2:Ep 1 continued on that tradition, evolving it at a good pace. Now they're completely going back on their roots and not even realizing it.
Remember the premise of the HL games. "You are Gordon Freeman." Not "You are Gordon Freeman... drink Pepsi!".
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