Valve hopes to ‚focus‘ on Steam’s core gaming functions, no doubt with an eye on the competition.
Valve has decided to cease selling video content through the massive PC game marketplace Steam, in an attempt to „refocus“ on the platform’s core functions.
While most of Steam’s 90 million monthly users primarily use the platform for buying and playing video games, Valve has experimented with expanding the kind of content available, with films and documentaries alongside the usual array of trailers and image galleries.
However, it’s clear from the wording on Valve’s blog post on the matter that very few Steam users were making use of the video library:
„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.
