@JackRacc what game launchers force you to watch adverts to play the games? none I've ever heard of

while not a forced ad, Unigine Heaven and/or Valley both have a "Oil Rush" ad in the launcher. That's where I want to know if launcher ads are likely their way to compensate the gameplay halts no longer being allowed. We all know what happened to Skype.

@JackRacc no, there's absolutely nothing stated about devs advertising their own games - that's not an advert business model

so advertising integration, Eg. Nissan or Nokia ads on game environment billboards in Quantum Break, don't fall under these new rules. (Quantum Break is a Microsoft funded game)

@mdiluz yep precisely, it annoying users is just a general win for it being banned

@DeShawnFranco that's not what's being discussed here at all

It's an advertisement in a game?

@DeShawnFranco it's not paid advertising, a business model, this is just a developer highlighting their other games