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Another example is computer games. I got No Man's Sky recently because it was discounted on Steam, and I always wanted to try it. I would consider the pop-up yo
by XCSme 2y ago
Another example is computer games. I got No Man's Sky recently because it was discounted on Steam, and I always wanted to try it. I would consider the pop-up you get when you launch steam, and the discounts showed in the store to also be "ads". I am enjoying the (still buggy) game so far.
- int_19h 2y agoIf you want to buy a specific Steam game on discount, you can just add it to watchlist and get a notification when it has one. If you want to buy some random games because they are discounted, you can just go to the corresponding section in the Steam store. The point of the popup is to distract you from whatever you're doing right now to get you to make an impulse purchase, as opposed to a well-researched one. That's exactly how people end up with Steam accounts that have literally hundreds of never-played games in them.