Go go go, films, anime and videos

[Mabi]

Restore the video section, nothing can stop steam, no alternative platform can succeed. Stop these excuses, we are stuck with the pandemic, we need entertainment content!

[Cathulhu]

Valve decided not to bleed any more money on a failed experiment. Not enough bought into that service. So Valve stopped losing money on it.
Use the already established services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and so on. Way bigger companies with way bigger pockets.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The amount of sales it generated for each title did not cover the cost for licensing them.

[Mabi]

Bringing right series selected by the community on demand instead of trial and error?
As you choose the steam awards there can be polls on releases as new series.
There must be many who don't want to
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney.

You can't put the Tanya of Evil series and ignore its sequel for example

[Cathulhu]

Again, they never made a single dime of profit on anything they put on the store.
It was a failed attempt that Valve is not going to repeat.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por Mabi:

Bringing right series selected by the community on demand instead of trial and error?
As you choose the steam awards there can be polls on releases as new series.
There must be many who don't want to
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney.

The community is terrible at selecting things, look at Greenlight.

It wasn't trial and error. They were just locked out of some of the best anime due to licensing restrictions because another service had priority on the license at the time.

Poll for purchasable store products died with Greenlight.

There is also Hulu, Funimation, Crunchyroll (who helped with the whole venture in the first place) and a few others.

Publicado originalmente por Mabi:

You can't put the Tanya of Evil series and ignore its sequel for example

Yes, yes you can when no one paid for the 1st entry.

https://steamcharts.com/app/640580

https://steamcharts.com/app/640750

https://steamcharts.com/app/640740

[Crazy Tiger]

OP, you highly overestimate the value of this. Or how many people actually knew that Valve had movies/series.

It's not worth it to try and compete with dedicated services.

[cinedine]

Publicado originalmente por Mabi:

There must be many who don't want to
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney.

And why would these people be interested in getting a Steam subscription? Or paying for their series/movies on Steam - a service with rather funky bandwidth for most people and constant server issues - instead of someone who actually has the infrastructure?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The video player was and still is pretty bad here as well. You can't even force it to play on the video player 99% of the time. It usually makes you watch it in a browser. That also means no hour counting, no trading card drops and not able to review it.

[Mabi]

Doubting even in this period that this will work is perhaps not wise. It is clear that if you do not know the video section, one will struggle to find it to combine something.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por Mabi:

Doubting even in this period that this will work is perhaps not wise. It is clear that if you do not know the video section, one will struggle to find it to combine something.

In this period? Even now licensing is expensive and Valve doesn't want anything to do with it.

[TF2 A3OB TOMISLAV]

valve video player was poor and froze plus many popular video streaming exists

[Mabi]

so the problem is not the licenses but the service ok.

for example cyberpunk comes out and you don't even mention the video section where you can find ghost in the shell

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por Mabi:

so the problem is not the licenses but the service ok.

for example cyberpunk comes out and you don't even mention the video section where you can find ghost in the shell

It is about licenses.

GiTS's license hasn't expired yet. It is an abnormally long license they paid a ton for.

[Count_Dandyman]

Publicado originalmente por Mabi:

Doubting even in this period that this will work is perhaps not wise. It is clear that if you do not know the video section, one will struggle to find it to combine something.

In this period?

Dedicated video services are collapsing right now because there are too many and most of them can't get a library worth anything because its all locked to the handful that got out ahead first and signed contracts keeping things from going to others or that are making the content themselves and don't have to pay license fees or share it.

You are so busy looking at the successes that you can't see the wreckage around your feet from the failures and Valve aren't dumb enough to jump into the game knowing they can't win.

[FOXDUDE69]

Publicado originalmente por Crazy Tiger:

OP, you highly overestimate the value of this. Or how many people actually knew that Valve had movies/series.

It's not worth it to try and compete with dedicated services.

Imagine if Jeff Bezos had the same mindset!