Steam Broadcasting entering beta

https://steamcommunity.com/updates/broadcasting

So Valve's apparently entering the livestreaming service aswell. It'll be interesting to see how this goes.

Also, the full FAQ:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6730-TOAK-6497

Great, now please allow me to play games before they are fully installed and Steam will be golden again.

Can you make money with this?

Or hats?

How do you stream a smooth rate and not a slideshow :P

sony leading the way as usual. pc following 12 months laters lmao

guess no one has ever heard of twitch, hahaha.

What are you even talking about...people have been streaming on PC for years. Remote desktop and screen sharing has been around for decades.

Ever heard of Twitch? You have said some dumb shit recently but this is probably the dumbest I've seen out of you this week. Congratulations.

as if im going to jump through all those hoops to do something that can be done with 3 button presses on godstation

@mikhail: It's Ghostwarrior. Sooner or latter, something stupid is gonna come out of his mouth.

I'm sure Valve will find something for this.

"Jump through hoops" = Press button to stream to Twitch.

Yep...some people (you) should just stick with console gaming, just like some people should stick to working at fast food joints or being janitors. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but not everyone in the world can be smart. It's cool.

God, pretty soon Valve will have a monopoly over hot dog buns too. They're doing EVERYTHING. :v

It would be cool to see dota 2 livestreamers migrating to this service from twitch, it would make things way more streamlined.

Origin still making excuses that Valve had a head start?

If using twitch is "jumping some hoops" to you then dayum,you dumb.

Not to mention that Onlive did this shit a long time before sony,so sony followed years later,top kek.

I see no one has actually read either about this. You get no choice about when to start streaming and there is no way of stopping it running.

haha truth hurts. its ok dont be mad, maybe steam can be like a console one day

Steam big picture mode. Done.

You can always sell steam cards.

I think they can pull it off, but it will be a great challenge to take Twitch down as place to stream.

Loook ma, billy has to troll because his system is worse at everything.

and what's your system again?

@ghostwarrior786: it can be done with two words on Xbone, but LMAO poor ghosty still pressing the buttons like it's 1984

Wouldn't that be your sister?

By the way nothing beats a dedicated capture card and even a console gamer such as myself will tell you that as capturing video on PS4/Xbone is half-assed at best. Still better than nothing and more useful than just screenshots.

My sister is hot as ****, but sadly shes married now.

People have been streaming games from PCs for ages.

@Motokid6: Scrub. Mine will be in burning flames. The whole world will notice the glorious burning hat.

sister act

Think you can only watch people play that are on your friends list.

No you can actually watch anyone's broadcast if they make it public or something like that in the settings. You can go to the community hub of any (semi-popular) game and there is now a broadcasts tab there, and you can see a few people broadcasting their game. So basically, like you could have dota 2 pro players broadcasting directly to the community hub.

Now, the problem is you don't get money from broadcasting, yet.

@Ballroompirate:

It can be anybody on Steam (If they have their settings set to allow anybody to watch them)

Since Twitch user revenue comes from donations, i think Valve will allow it. If so, i can see this surpassing Twitch eventually.

Well they can get revenue from ads and also subscriptions (on twitch). I don't think donations are their main revenue.

The subs can also be added easily. The ads i didn't know about. Not sure how Valve would feel about it.

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how it fares considering the large userbase on Steam and branding power it has.

Interesting. I'll have to check it out sometime soon.

I wonder if Steam will support monetization for livestreaming in the future since it has been so ingrain within Twitch and gaming videos culture.

Tried to broadcast with Char today, he kept receiving an error. I haven't had any issues pulling up feeds and the quality is very impressive.

Inevitably. If they didn't want to monetize it, they'd go the route of the X1/PS4 and sublicense the functionality to Twitch/Ustream. Instead, they've built and are providing their own service and they'll undoubtedly look for ways to monetize it once it exits beta.

Ah that's dope then, thought I read something it was just friends.