I remember them selling anime movies, but I never bothered because why the fuck would I buy anime movies on Steam
I used this service to rent John Wick once. It worked pretty well, actually, but I can see why it never exploded in popularity.
What, is Steam deciding it has standards now?
I wouldn't bet on it.
I... Didn't know steam had a video section?
I completely forgot they even sold videos in general.
I hope they stop trying to diversify too much, it's just absurd nonsense, they need to focus on just being good at selling games and maybe hardware
i guess i should quickly buy avgn movie before it disappears
And beach volleyball detectives part 1
The Nekopara OVA was probably one of the only things why people used the Video section of Steam, I wonder if that thing counts as "Videogame related".
Ngl, Steam used to recommend me videos all the time, but then I just went in and disabled its recommendations for them.
Why would I buy videos on Steam? What does Steam have for videos that other video services don't?
I've completely forgot they had a video section. I've only ever seen that free zombie skit video thing they first put up there well over a decade ago.
It made sense for some stuff to be on there like indie game the movie, but ye going all in to the movie stuff was a bit weird.
I remember when I found out Steam was selling movies and anime, I thought it was interesting since I hadn't heard of it before. It kind of felt like that feeling you get when you see chicken nuggets at a chinese buffet; it's good but I didn't come here for that.
The fact that most of them have region restriction meant it was a limited list to pick from. So I a wasn't aware what was available.
Used this service once for renting a movie. Worked alright, but the media player wasn't the best. I remember having some issues with subtitles.
I thought it was a really good idea, personally. One of the primary reasons I like to use steam is because if I buy a game, it stays attached to my steam account until either Valve goes belly up or society collapses. Having other kinds of content attached to that same digital identity is just convenient. I hate having to use a million different platforms to manage what I own, but then that's also kind of necessary under capitalism. At least, it is the way things are currently set up.
I wish we could find a way to separate digital distribution between content producers who would directly sell you content and a socially owned platform that would just hold/allow access to everything you've bought.
The biggest problem is the majority of shows/movies were all delivered via streams, which meant quality degradation over their physical or downloadable counterparts.
There just wasn't any value in the system so I see why they would drop support for it.
I only used it to buy my friends the first episode of Free
I think my brother bought/rented Kemono Friends once. I completely forgot this was a service.
I think steam just straight up streamed the movies from crunchyroll or something
I think this is one case where they tried to over-extend their reach without really properly preparing for it yet again; since the UI and storefront is already kind of a challenge to navigate when it comes to anything that isn't a game. I also doubt steam would ever overcome its stigma of being a lead platform for >games<, its hard to imagine it as anything else unless they really put emphasis on creating a separate store-front, client or service for streaming.
Like, it would've been a really neat feature if you could tab between a movie and game storefront by the click of a button. They could've done so many experimental features since their online community is already well established. Stuff like buying a movie package that allows you to stream the movie to a group of friends, but they never really did anything aside basic, rudimentary features.
As it is now though. I just get the initial expression that it'd be really awkward and not all that enticing to use. Steam's streaming features for games and movies/tv shows felt nothing more than something that was shoe-horned into their service to say that they were attempting to be competitive towards leading competitors
Goddamnit, the John wick 2 backgrounds are going to be a fortune now
this was always a feature valve never quite matured right. Like I get the idea but they never really got any legs under it or promoted it.
Valve never quite matured right in general
there's just so much they need to work on, it's really awful
hey maybe steam will get better now that its got serious competition
but will it keep the Ace Attorney anime? is that considered gaming?
Can they remove non-gaming games too? Like those 1000000000 achievement games?
I bought a drawing anatomy tutorial series on there and forgot I even had it.
Guess I better start
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