Steam to allow game sharing with family/friends

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3 total messages Started by Rin Stowleigh Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:46

#720161

Author: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:46

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http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/

Re: Steam to allow game sharing with family/friends

#720162

Author: Andrew Rybenkov
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:05

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On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:46:32 +0400, Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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"

-- 
Andrew Rybenkov

Re: Steam to allow game sharing with family/friends

#720163

Author: Rin Stowleigh
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:
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>> http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/
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>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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