Valve Shuts Down Steam Video Section

RIP the only Mario Bros content on steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/517030/The_Adventures_of_Super_Mario_Bros_3/

Not really gonna miss it, though I did nail a few anime series for super cheap when they first launched the video stuff.

Oh dang, well I don't know if I should rush and buy the AVGN movie on my WL or if it will be fine since it's game related and can be bought bundled with a video game ¯\(ツ)/¯

Maybe if their video player wasn't such a piece of shit, people would have actually used it.

i miss only badges from these vids

I watched Free to Play and Kung fury, they were good tbh, but i'm not gonna miss this feature

they never really advertised their movies. they should have had a front page section just for them. at least i would have saw them once in a while. far as i noticed they have seemed like a hidden part of steam

They tried to be everything, turns out they can lose all they have.

maybe they moved all the videos to epic.

Epic Video Store™

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Noooo! Not the Steam Video Section!

What's the Steam Video Section?

I'd say that's sad, but the Steam player is not very good. I was able to buy one movie at least, so that's nice.

I bought quite a bit of movies through the years, kinda sad to see it go but I know lots of people weren't big fans of videos..

To be honest...

... I never knew about the video section.

I tried it once and was very disappointed, the videos play in the Steam built in browser, which then prompted me with SteamGuard,
Downloading and playing games though, no prompt.

pretty much kinda-like story of my life: 24 hours ago -or so- was clicking Steam client like a fool, checking each and every setting, read all discussions at their forum, cause i really needed to watch Double Fine Adventure. cause, hey, i -should- have paid for that! i'm under EU jurisdiction, here!

"click here" said someone in their hub. "you can download them all!" ("just 45 Gb, +50 Gb more, if you want also dlc ones!")
no way, i just want to watch a video... like YouTube, you know.
"go there, then, they're all at youtube!"

uhm.

nobody told me that, Fyanta. none. i love SteamGifts and i'll never touch that client again.

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how to search only movies on steam? anyone knows?

Nothing I was interested in was available in my region anyway. Well except for Kung Fury I suppose. But when I tried playing that through Steam it liked to cause hard, kernel-level hangs. So I watched it on Youtube with better video quality instead.

So IMHO nothing of value is lost here.

It's not shocking that the digital distribution platform aimed at gamers isn't the target for people that want to watch movies online. I'm yet to meet a person who would totally go buy movie on Steam as opposed to watching on netflix, youtube or literally anywhere else but Steam.

They simply tried their best to get a bite of a cake that they didn't try yet, and it didn't go as good as they hoped it will. It was vastly inferior to almost all decent alternatives, and Valve is known for leaving things in barely-working state, so it didn't have any crucial update since the day it was announced. I'm pretty sure even people at Valve didn't really believe this could have any other outcome, but they tried anyway as somebody calculated that the risk is still worth the cost.

The only thing I do not understand is why they're closing it considering they already have working solution and the maintenance costs can't be too high compared to all other parts of Steam. It seems that there is just nobody interested in working on that or supporting it, since there is no logical reason otherwise. Even if we assumed that there is nobody watching those videos at all, this would still be a cost of just storage and a link, both of which are already used and shared for the rest of the network, so leaving it on stand-by for movies can't possibly degrade the service if nobody is using it. Probably some publisher or other dev asked for some specific features and they just realized it's not worth it.

Steam streaming video service incoming...

That sucks. Really, it does. People like giving it a lot of shit, but if Steam had actually done some work on it instead of keeping that slapdash system, it could've actually been pretty good. At some point, they caught the attention of Lionsgate, so they started selling a lot of their movies on there. Plus, the Steam store was filled with indie movies that you can't get anywhere else.

Being glad it's gone is pretty damn ignorant, I'd say. But it's Steam's fault this thing flopped. I'm sad for all the creators that basically just lost one more chance of getting recognized. And also the one chance to really find good low-grade flicks that you won't find anywhere else.

As long as I can still watch Zombie Movie, I'm okay with this.

[edit] Can't... not on Steam anyway. Even the official site for 2chums is gone, though that's not Valve's fault. Probably been that way for a while, but it's sad to me. That was the first movie on Steam, way back in 2005. [/edit]

So the only purpose was to watch legendary Kung Fury

Sad, but OK.

Steam had a video section? That's news to me.

I was actually browsing the video section a few days ago and watched a few free documentaries. I'm not going to lose much sleep over that content going away, it wasn't anything remarkable.

The only time I wanted to watch a movie on Steam that I was really interested in (it was a domcumentary about the Burning Man Festival which was included in some bundle back in the day) it hung itself up 10 minutes into the movie everytime I tried watching the stream and I ended up watching it on Youtube in low quality instead.
Never used Steam again for that purpose, so it's a good riddance from my side.