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Article #720163Re: Steam to allow game sharing with family/friends
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:28
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:28
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:05:06 +0400, "Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:46:32 +0400, Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/ >> > >It could be a killer feature, but right now it is pretty useless: >"only one person can use a library" I think it's the first phase of sharing to be followed by partitioned libraries later. In the meantime, theres nothing stopping a person from doing this themself by creating multiple Steam accounts and putting some of their library under the duplicates. That allows both players to be playing different games at once. As it exists right now, it's more of a "Dad" feature -- so Dad can share games with kids while he's at work or not playing, but his right to play overrides family in the sense that he will always be able to play if he wants and it will log everyone else out (with warning of course).
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