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Nope, but Valve makes the money from selling games on Steam. So they do not need it from others. Same really doesn't apply to other manufacturers.


And yet, despite Microsoft making money from licensing Windows, selling Office subscriptions, and (presumably) their App Store, they feel it's worth opening a firehose of ads on the user. I don't think that having a solid revenue stream and flooding the user with ads are related in any way; it's just a question of the company's morals and where they see value for/from the user.




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