• Rooster326@programming.dev
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    6 hours ago

    Why would Steam, a company known for hosting millions(billions?) in content, need YouTube to host its own promotional material?

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      3 hours ago

      Because every news site will want to include an embed of the video of the release and they can’t do that if it’s on Steam servers.

    • DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      In preparation to unlist it when it comes time to announce a proper release date for it. They likely will have it both on their servers to be used in steam’s frontend and on YouTube as free marketing.