Interesting; this makes me wonder how much of Steam other people use that I'm not even aware of. Do you use it like a community site - like Reddit - where you scroll through some feed of recent activity or something? I've never seen these broadcasts since I've never seen anything community-related on Steam really; I just view the store pages occasionally! And even that's rare since I don't exactly browse games ever.
Maybe using it as a community is a great way to attract interest to games since people are going to be getting them from that site anyway, though it's odd that no indie devs I've seen talk about it in that way or suggest promoting there. I got the impression that it was nothing more that the place to finally sell the games in the end, after doing the promotion elsewhere.
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Not particularly... I've discontinued using all social media be it reddit, facebook, twitter, what have you as I've found them to have been an incredibly negative force in my life. I don't need incessant whining or folks shamelessly shilling away. If I'm interested in a person or a project I can always follow directly as with you, alternatively I stumble around and look at whats in front of me.
This whole predicament reminds me of a slogan we used back when I was working in casino management (horrible industry, avoid at all costs) "We don't want people to gamble more, we don't want more people to gamble; but of those that do, we want them to gamble here." People don't go on youtube to watch a video about making beef wellington then stumble across a gameplay video and run off to buy it... it simply doesn't happen. On the contrary, people perusing the steam store are only there for one purpose; finding games to buy.
As for you not knowing of this feature I'm fairly certain it is new-ish, I've only started to notice it perhaps in the past 6 months or so but it makes perfect sense from all perspectives, the (potential)buyer gets to watch actual gameplay, not some store video with a catchy tune showing highlights that may or not reflect what the game is actually about without having to slog over to youtube and find a video that is actually informative not just some personality making a fool of themselves or speedrunner pretending like anyone cares. Easily informed customers make for more sales/less refunds making valve happy and our favorite indie devs rich.
Maybe using it as a community is a great way to attract interest to games since people are going to be getting them from that site anyway, though it's odd that no indie devs I've seen talk about it in that way or suggest promoting there. I got the impression that it was nothing more that the place to finally sell the games in the end, after doing the promotion elsewhere.
This whole predicament reminds me of a slogan we used back when I was working in casino management (horrible industry, avoid at all costs) "We don't want people to gamble more, we don't want more people to gamble; but of those that do, we want them to gamble here." People don't go on youtube to watch a video about making beef wellington then stumble across a gameplay video and run off to buy it... it simply doesn't happen. On the contrary, people perusing the steam store are only there for one purpose; finding games to buy.
As for you not knowing of this feature I'm fairly certain it is new-ish, I've only started to notice it perhaps in the past 6 months or so but it makes perfect sense from all perspectives, the (potential)buyer gets to watch actual gameplay, not some store video with a catchy tune showing highlights that may or not reflect what the game is actually about without having to slog over to youtube and find a video that is actually informative not just some personality making a fool of themselves or speedrunner pretending like anyone cares. Easily informed customers make for more sales/less refunds making valve happy and our favorite indie devs rich.