Valve launches Steam.TV, intends for it to compete with Twitch

supergamer368 · Aug 18, 2018

I can see already that this isn’t going to work out too well. Maybe Valve should stick to what they’re good at instead of trying every gaming concept under the sun.

Hells Malice · Aug 18, 2018

Twitch is in a very strong position right now. This is just a complete waste of manpower. They'd be better off trying to replace Youtube, which is just begging to be replaced.

snails1221 · Aug 18, 2018

I too enjoy wasting money

Chary · Aug 18, 2018

Twitch has a deathgrip on the market, especially with the subs, and donations, lootboxes and prime subs, and everything, really. They also have the infrastructure to support it as well. Valve...well, hasn't always had the best servers.

Too little, too late, for Valve/Steam.

supergamer368 · Aug 18, 2018

Chary said:
Twitch has a deathgrip on the market, especially with the subs, and donations, lootboxes and prime subs, and everything, really. They also have the infrastructure to support it as well. Valve...well, hasn't always had the best servers.

Too little, too late, for Valve/Steam.

Exactly. Watch this fade from existence in a month or less just for Valve to spend money on another ill-fated project.

Chary · Aug 18, 2018

supergamer368 said:
Exactly. Watch this fade from existence in a month or less just for Valve to spend money on another ill-fated project.

What, I can't hear you over my Steam Links and Steam Machines, or the new style of Steam sales

supergamer368 · Aug 18, 2018

Chary said:
What, I can't hear you over my Steam Links and Steam Machines, or the new style of Steam sales

Don’t forget Steam controllers! The best controllers ever made!
“Listen, we at Valve have been listening, now we’re launching SteamROMs and SteavientArt to compete with even more people”
(and SteamHub)

TunaKetchup · Aug 18, 2018

Chary said:
Twitch has a deathgrip on the market, especially with the subs, and donations, lootboxes and prime subs, and everything, really. They also have the infrastructure to support it as well. Valve...well, hasn't always had the best servers.

Too little, too late, for Valve/Steam.

Lots of popular twitch streams no longer stream on twitch due to being banned or other stuff

Ice Poseidon is a good example

jt_1258 · Aug 18, 2018

so they tried to copy discord and now twitch...who's next XD

Apache Thunder · Aug 18, 2018

Now I can stream quality titles like Skyscraper Simulator, Airport Simulator, Agricultural Simulator 2013, and all of my favorite asset flips. Oh joy I can't wait!

AkikoKumagara · Aug 18, 2018

Chary said:
What, I can't hear you over my Steam Links and Steam Machines, or the new style of Steam sales

To be fair, I did buy a Steam Link... but it was like 95% off.

supergamer368 · Aug 18, 2018

You know what, this makes me mad. Now I’M going to start a streaming service. It’ll be called bub.tv.... yeah, yeah I like it. The network will be down 99.9% of ~~germs~~ the time and the only game streamable is Bubsy 3D. I mean, It’ll work considering anybody can make a cruddy streaming service, right?

Deleted User · Aug 18, 2018

supergamer368 said:
Don’t forget Steam controllers! The best controllers ever made!
“Listen, we at Valve have been listening, now we’re launching SteamROMs and SteavientArt to compete with even more people”
(and SteamHub)

hey man I really like the steam controller, its the best controller for playing non FPS PC games on the couch and there are a lot of people out there who hold the same mindset

Priestiality · Aug 18, 2018

Man, remember when Valve made games? I miss that.

Mikemk · Aug 18, 2018

Inb4 SteamTube, Steamit, Steam console, Hot & Steamy®, and Steam (disambiguation).

MikaDubbz · Aug 18, 2018

Too late Valve. If you jumped in not long after Twitch originally debuted, you might have had a chance, but at this point you might as well be a new platform trying to compete with Youtube... its simply never going to compare.

Sonic Angel Knight · Aug 18, 2018

But does this mean we can stream the games that twitch won't allow like Yandere Simulator?

VitaType · Aug 18, 2018

Hells Malice said:
Twitch is in a very strong position right now. This is just a complete waste of manpower. They'd be better off trying to replace Youtube, which is just begging to be replaced.

Or they could try something really crazy and develop games instead of making SaaMP's (Service as a Money Printer)

kuwanger · Aug 18, 2018

As stupid as I think this is, I don't really get Twitch as far as actual usage. I mean going by some of the stats (average 15 million daily users, 95 minutes per user per day) and you have figures only marginally better than 60 Minutes (7.5 million viewers, obviously 60 minutes) or Big Brother (5.6 million viewers, also 60 minutes) and that's for only one country. Youtube at over 1 billion hours of video a day, around 1 billion mobile users, etc just massively eclipses it. That Google own efforts to capture the Twitch market have been pretty horrible may just be that Twitch is too niche to exert a lot of changes to accommodate it.

And I say this liking Twitch...sometimes. Poker, old TV shows, and autoplay "most popular" videos? Really? *sigh* And the actual user experience is pretty atrocious when I can't block 99% of games I have zero interest in. If someone who had the infrastructure were interested, I think it'd be pretty trivial to overcome most of what Twitch lacks and own the market mostly by just getting more users. *shrugs*

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