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As mentioned in all the threads about this same topic, which could have been read if you used the search before hand, Valve can't even get spell check working right, what makes you think they could do translations of 100+ languages into other languages? Valve has around 300 to 350 people working directly (not steam support people) for them and most of those people are working on other things other than the forums/chat stuff.
You can use google translate for free, for Valve (or any other company) to use another companies translation service they must pay for that service as its not free, it is in fact very expensive, specially when dealing with over 140+ million active users a month, with around 100+ different languages. Are you going to pay a monthly fee for it?
Youtube can use googles translation service for cheap or free because google owns youtube. I'm sure they also get a whole lot of data from users using that translation services.
For users on the web Google translate is free.
For business Google translate is expensive.
It doesn't have to be Google Translate. Valve isn't some dinky operation run out of a garage despite what the fanboys seem to think. It's a multibillion, multinational corporation. They can do it themselves, they just don't want to.
It cost just under a dollar per user per month, and that was with already collecting $18M a year from the customer.
Its not free and its not as cheap as you might think as a commercial service.
Google is just an example as its the best known... Valve would have to pay large amounts of money to ANY translation company.
Again, no matter what some might think, from everything I can find, Valve has not grown beyond the average of around 300 to 350 actual employees. They have Steam support, but thats a whole other company that they hired to provide that support. They aren't actually Valve employees. Anything that gets worked on for Steam and the website and its apps is done by one of the 300 to 350 actual employees.
They also don't do things like most other companies. When you work for Valve, you don't have to work on the same thing all the time. At any point you can literally roll your desk to some other group working on something you find interesting. You are not told "you must work on this". If you are finding what you are doing boring, you can go do other stuff. You don't even have to get permission to stop what you are doing, just find out if the group you want to join wants anyone else or if you have a new idea you want to work on, see if there is anyone that wants to help you with your idea.
Its one of the strangest companies I have seen when it comes to stuff like that, yet, it seems to be working for them. But even if you could convince all of them to work on translating (note many are not programmers so would be useless for translation software) 350 people is not actually all that many people when places like google have literally thousands of people dedicated to the translation stuff for well over a decade, maybe even 2 decades.
And yes, Valve makes a lot of money, they also spend a lot of money. We don't actually know how much in profit they make as they pay for a lot of stuff all around the world, including many servers with expensive bandwidth usage.