Valve announce plans to expand Steam outside of games
By Jess Colwill on August 9, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Valve have made a big announcement overnight, saying that Steam will begin offering more than just games. As of September 5, the digital distribution service will be offering other types of software, including creativity and productivity programs. Offering these new programs via Steam also gives publishers the chance to integrate their software with Steamworks, which will in turn offer all the good things we love about Steam already, like auto-updating and cloud saves.
Steam has been known to offer content other than games in the past, such as digital magazines, not to mention Indie Game: The Movie, but this announcement will mark Valve’s biggest move since expanding to Mac in 2010.
Source: IGN
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Valve will rule the PC landscape in time, Steam may even become a Cloud OS one day!
Then next step… World domination.
I would be very happy if student editions of software were available to purchase via steam.
Well played, Steam.
Next step, Music and Movies too?
Makes sense.
Here is my guess – eventually there will be a Valve version of linux – one version to unify them all. Between that and Steam they will have a viable alternative to Windows offering an Operating System for free and paid for office programmes and entertainment (Games, TV shows, movies etc) all in one glorious package. I call it Valnux.
Sounds like Value. I’ll take 3 thanks.
But Valve haven’t done me wrong so far, and are pretty high up on the morality and ethics scale, so hell, if my life had to be ruled by a super-corporation, I’d like it to be these guys.
spkypwnsuall,
Would be beyond awesome if Valve took their Linux support that far, but I’m wondering just what apps they’ll offer and whether most of us gamers will care too much. I would love it if they offered movies and music, etc, but they haven’t said anything about it. Would be cool though.
pretty high, but not they could do more. standing up for global consumers and telling the big studios “No” when they ask for region pricing would be better. Also, reducing superfluous 3rd party DRM to just Steam DRM would be another policy they could do with having.
GON… “EDIT POST”!!!!!
^edit:”pretty high, but not perfect”
I get what you’re saying. They are by no means perfect, but they don’t exactly paint a bad image for themselves. Sure, the regional pricing thing is agonizing for some games, but there are usually some reason behind it (85% of which is “Because the big company made us do it”).
EA price gouges us for no reason other than profit, Valve keep things cheap. Hell, CS:GO is $15 everywhere. Its not Valves personal thing against us for the price hell we’re put through.
But I agree with the 3rd party DRM on top of Steam DRM. Bit of overkill, should be removed.
Next up, Steam achievements for Photoshop.
followed by achievements in Office.
I expect to be able to get new hats for my office paper clip help tool.