NEKOPARA OVA (video) has been removed from Steam Store

[CycLoNeShadow]

Why Valve suddenly decided to stop selling several videos which have trading cards since yesterday (31 oct 2022)? So now all the items (card/background/emoticon) became unmarketable.

- NEKOPARA OVA: https://steamdb.info/app/758230/
- NEKOPARA OVA Extra: https://steamdb.info/app/746650/
- KSL Live World 2016 ~the Animation Charlotte & Rewrite~: https://steamdb.info/app/635800/
- Over the dream: https://steamdb.info/app/406210/
- Padak: https://steamdb.info/app/468060/

* I don't think it is the developers' decision.

Edit: https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/1587361062688624641

[davidb11]

The video player on Steam was retired years ago now.
It's a bit surprising there are any newer movies on Steam.

It just might have taken a while for the remaining movies to get removed.

[CycLoNeShadow]

It's a little strange since all of the videos were removed at once on the same day by different developers. Sure, I might as well ask the developers too.

[davidb11]

It might be because the movie player was retired.

[ShelLuser]

To be honest I can easily understand why Steam would stop with the video contents.. it's been hard to find for ages and well... owning some videos myself I can also say that the quality isn't always very good either.

I grabbed the Ghost in the Shell stuff because I'm a bit of fanboy of the original Anime's.

(edit)

Speaking of which... the GiTS videos have also been removed, so this isn't something specifically related to Nekopara. At first glance I imagined this might have something to do with the OVA set but that's obviously not the case.

[TheKingRyan]

lionsgate also removed all the remaining movies/series

[CycLoNeShadow]

Originally posted by davidb11:

The video player on Steam was retired years ago now.
It's a bit surprising there are any newer movies on Steam.

It just might have taken a while for the remaining movies to get removed.

Hmm, might be the case. So sad if it's true.

[Ogami]

The large majority of the video content, like 90%+ off all available videos was removed 2-3 years ago.
Before that Steam had full anime seasons and normal tv shows and such.
I still own quiet a few of them on Steam like Black Flag Season 1-4, Ash VS Evil Dead Season 1-3, Spartacus Season 1-4 and a bunch of anime series.

But it was just not a very profitable it seems so Valve basically tossed out the whole section only leaving a few videos that had video game related content.
It is what it is.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Falsus Te Deum]

Steam is retiring the video streaming service on Nov 1st, 2022.
This is the reason.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by Sak-jin:

Steam is retiring the video streaming service on Nov 1st, 2022.
This is the reason.

I thought it was retired years ago.
LOL.

[Falsus Te Deum]

Yeah i know, got a message from a dev that's had some VN drama cd's as streaming, now converted to normal Dlc's.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by CycLoNeShadow:

* I don't think it is the developers' decision.

*It was at the publishers request... https://steamdb.info/app/758230/history/?changeid=16564723

[blunus]

It was removed at the publisher's request before the video streaming service ends on Nov 1st (today).

So far, 86 videos are available on the store yet until around 1 hour and 20 minutes left.

[CycLoNeShadow]

Originally posted by blunus:

It was removed at the publisher's request before the video streaming service ends on Nov 1st (today).

So far, 86 videos are available on the store yet until around 1 hour and 20 minutes left.

Thanks for clarification.

[Micro]

can I able to get this movie through CD keys?

[Wolfpig]

Originally posted by Micro:

can I able to get this movie through CD keys?

I doubt that keys for that stuff where sold outside of steam, as most of the content was sold at other sites/streaming services too.