[QUERY] Why Do Developers Put "Live" on their Page when the Video Pre-recorded? : Steam

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Extremely misleading.

It's obviously not "live", if it's pre-recorded.

False advertising, wouldn't you say so?

[Thermal Lance]

heh. I don't think it's that big of a deal tbh. Live or not, the content remains the same.

[Chika Ogiue]

Because they're using what Valve gave them to use.

[Cksalzy]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Extremely misleading.

It's obviously not "live", if it's pre-recorded.

False advertising, wouldn't you say so?

why do you care?

[Vann]

"Streaming" would be good enough. As it is part of the tool they are provided with, well - understood why they are using that.

Nonetheless, these can be helpful in checking out the game and making the decision if it is a good pick. Maybe slightly misleading, but a good functionality overall

[nullable]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Extremely misleading.

It's obviously not "live", if it's pre-recorded.

False advertising, wouldn't you say so?

You might not fully understand all the uses of the term. Perhaps you should take your axe and grind it against the music industry and the decades of live albums they've sold.

[Satoru]

From steam's perspective it is 'live'

Steam doesn't know if something is a live broadcast or a pre-recording. Its simply broadcasting.

[rawWwRrr]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

False advertising, wouldn't you say so?

Unless they are attempting to sell you the recorded stream as a live stream, then no.

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Publicado originalmente por rawWwRrr:

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

False advertising, wouldn't you say so?

Unless they are attempting to sell you the recorded stream as a live stream, then no.

They are selling you the game.

[rawWwRrr]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Publicado originalmente por rawWwRrr:

Unless they are attempting to sell you the recorded stream as a live stream, then no.

They are selling you the game.

Which the stream is not a part of.

[William Shakesman]

It's a bit like the "Prologue" demo system where developers are responding to the quirks of Valve's storefront causing them to try to abuse every aspect of it to sell you stuff, same way phones went from a useful system to a vector of spam and scam calls and texts. I rather wish Valve would put a bit more thought into the incentives they create, but I guess it's a lot more fun to spend all day coming up with imagined behaviors of the customers to spite them rather than pay attention to the behaviors of the developers.

Anyway, I suppose Valve clearly has bandwidth to spare to roleplay as a streaming site so I expect the Download All button to return soon.

[[N]ebsun]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

It's obviously not "live", if it's pre-recorded.

Agreed - "Live" implies that we are watching something at the same time as it is happening in real life...

If it's pre-recorded, they can use "replay", "broadcasting", "casting", "showing" instead of specifically "live" (which implies real time).. or simply not put a tag on it

[TWPanda77]

I am not sure that it can be called false advertizing. The product remains the same regardless if the video is live or not. Presumably the "live" stream will return periodically and that will be used to refresh things.

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Publicado originalmente por TWPanda77:

I am not sure that it can be called false advertizing. The product remains the same regardless if the video is live or not. Presumably the "live" stream will return periodically and that will be used to refresh things.

If the recording isn't live, shouldn't you just make a video in one of the boxes below the live stream?

It's kind of off-putting.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Just like TV shows, they aren't necessarily live when they are broadcasted to the audiences. Steam only has a broadcast feature.

[Sigma957]

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Just like TV shows, they aren't necessarily live when they are broadcasted to the audiences. Steam only has a broadcast feature.

:winterbunny2023:

MTV used to be live and MuchMusic.