One of the reasons that Steam is so popular in the world of gaming today is that it has something for everyone in terms of gaming, and that’s what people love. But, Valve, the company behind the worldwide service, knows that sometimes you have to go even deeper into what people want in order to get more people to come to it. To that end, they’ve been trying to broaden the service and provide everything that gamers could want.
However, after some reflection, they noticed that their video uploading service hasn’t gone the direction that they wanted it to in some ways. So, they’re revising it:
For the past few years, we have worked on expanding Steam beyond games and software by building a video platform that supports paid and free video content. In reviewing what Steam users actually watch, it became clear we should focus our effort on offering content that is either directly related to gaming or, is accessory content for games or software sold on Steam.
They went on to explain the changes:
As part of this refocus, we have retired the Video section of the Steam Store menu with an expectation that video content is discovered via the associated game or software store page, or through search, user tags, recommendations, etc.
Over the coming weeks a number of non-gaming videos will be retired and will no longer be available for purchase. Previously purchased content will remain available to owners.
Though this is a big change, it’s clearly not a massive one, as they’re just removing the non-gaming videos, and that’s what doesn’t really matter to gamers anyway.
The change that many are waiting on though is when Valve will start working on making video games again. They’re promising that they are, but no results of it have been given yet.
