Although some may not have taken notice of it, the Steam gaming platform has offered a lot more than games during the last several years. However, one of those offerings is coming to an end, as Valve has now officially announced that it will be pulling all video content that isn't directly linked to video games.

Valve released an official statement explaining that the company has looked at ways to further expand Steam's content, and that offering a way to download both free and paid videos was part of that process. Unfortunately, the venture doesn't seem to have paid off for Valve, and the company has decided to refine what Steam has to offer. Effective immediately, Valve will begin pulling non-gaming video content from the service and those videos will no longer available to purchase.

Steam users who have already purchased any videos via the service can expect to be able to continue watching them, and if it follows suit with Steam's games, they should be able to re-download them from the service in the future. Users will be able to find the gaming-related videos that are staying on the service by looking at their associated games on the Steam store, rather than finding them in their own separate video section as it has been in the past.

At this time, it appears that Steam has no intention of reducing its software offerings. The majority of the programs offered by Steam are either tied directly to producing games, playing them, or recording and editing video footage taken from games, which falls in line with the new direction Valve is moving in.

After years as the top PC gaming platform to buy and play games on, Steam has been experiencing more of a struggle as of late. The game platform has managed to hold its own against other services like Origin, but with the recent decision on Epic Games' part to release games under its own service and developers moving games like Metro Exodus exclusively to Epic's platform, Steam's competition has grown more difficult to hold off. It hasn't made big fans of indie game developers either, as Valve recently changed the way it splits profits, leaving smaller developers looking for potential alternatives, which may further hurt the company's bottom line.

Source: Valve