By 2019, the service had over 34,000 games with over 95 million monthly active users. By 2017, users purchasing games through Steam totaled roughly US$4.3 billion, representing at least 18% of global PC game sales. The Steam platform is the largest digital distribution platform for PC gaming, holding around 75% of the market share in 2013. The platform also offers a small selection of other content, including design software, hardware, game soundtracks, anime, and films. Mobile apps were also released for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone in the 2010s. Though initially developed for use on Microsoft Windows operating systems, versions for macOS and Linux were later released. The software provides a freely available application programming interface (API) called Steamworks, which developers can use to integrate many of Steam's functions into their products, including in-game achievements, microtransactions, and support for user-created content through Steam Workshop. It also provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud storage, and in-game voice and chat functionality. Steam offers digital rights management (DRM), server hosting, video streaming, and social networking services. Steam has also expanded into an online web-based and mobile digital storefront. It was launched as a standalone software client in September 2003 as a way for Valve to provide automatic updates for their games and, expanded to include games from third-party publishers. The fundamental strength of the PC is that PC gamers improve their games, with or without the support of the developer, and we have every interest in keeping that alive.Steam is a video game digital distribution service by Valve. If it turns out we are wrong, and that this somehow results in fewer good mods, or no free ones, or unhappy mod makers, then we’ll fix it, even if that means removing the feature entirely.
In anything as complex as today’s games environment, you can never be certain in any prediction. Valve’s employee closes his email with the following statement: The email begins as one would expect, with Walker defending the new system. Robin Walker, known for the “Team Fortress” Quake mod before joining Valve, responded to an email regarding the sudden monetization of mods.
Now one of Valve’s own employees has provided his take on the the hot topic that has been unfolding. To catch those up to speed who may not be aware of what’s taken place over the past couple days, Valve implemented paid mods into the Steam Workshop and was met with overwhelming rage from the PC community. Here comes the next installment in Steam’s paid mods shitstorm debate.
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