Steam Broadcasting Now Open To Everyone

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @08:10AM from the for-when-you're-too-lazy-to-play-a-video-game dept.

jones_supa writes: The beta test phase of Steam Broadcasting feature has been completed. It is now available to everyone by updating the client to the newest version. The feature allows users to watch and stream games to and from users on your friends list. Right-clicking the name of a friend who is in-game offers the option to "Watch Game." This will send a request which needs to be accepted by the player so that the spectator can hop in. A chat is also included. Steam Broadcasting was first announced late last year as an alternative to third-party streaming services like Twitch, Ustream and Hitbox.

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Re:World's most useless feature by CronoCloud · 2015-01-20 08:43 · Score: 5, Interesting

Who the hell wants to watch other people play games when you could be playing them yourself?
That's what I said. But then I started watching a few streams. You can pick up tactics, skills, ideas from streams. You can also help out new players, or watch a game you're interested in buying. It has it's uses.