[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;41089856]Sorry but, wheres the source? Am I missing it? Can anyone else say this is true?[/QUOTE]
Looks like he found em himself.
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;41093508]Spotify integration could be cool but I'd rather a basic media player able to play local files and have a media library or something.[/QUOTE]
Yeah... and steam overlay support.
I'm just thinking it would be great for them to let me pay with my steam wallet. Selling items on the market to pay for spotify.
Yeah Steam Overlay support would be awesome. At the moment I just log into Winamp Remote or MusicBee or Mediamonkey via the web browser
Good to see people are learning from Microsoft's mistakes.
Has anyone seen if there are any -dev commands that can enable this?
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Wait, what would happen if you tried lending away a f2p game like TF2
[QUOTE=meppers;41089832]I still want my steam version of PS+[/QUOTE]
I want PS+ to be free, or ditch multiplayer from the package.
And this is how competition breeds innovation.
[QUOTE=Lord Fear;41092421]No, the text says that someone is a borrower and that the owner can boot them from the game if they're already playing.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, was first thing in the morning and I had just got into work, I must have misunderstood the meaning behind it.
I think the confusing thing is that it says "Sharedlicense", which gave me the impression that a game license would be available that allows for two people to have a license for the game, but I guess that can also mean a license that allows sharing, duh.
[QUOTE=Flubbman;41093616]Good to see people are learning from Microsoft's mistakes.[/QUOTE]
again, it's like people are just bashing microsoft because they want to bash someone. For all we know, this is the same method with similar restrictions as the MS one.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;41094684]again, it's like people are just bashing microsoft because they want to bash someone. For all we know, this is the same method with similar restrictions as the MS one.[/QUOTE]
Its not like the hate towards Microsoft is out of nowhere. Some pretty obvious reasons for it unless you been missing for a month.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;41094684]again, it's like people are just bashing microsoft because they want to bash someone. For all we know, this is the same method with similar restrictions as the MS one.[/QUOTE]
I don't understand why you keep comparing MS to Steam. Its used games policy is a massive drawback of the system and the absolute worst part of Steam; being the same is not an argument in Microsoft's favor. Steam is accepted however because of all its other advantages.
I just hope that you automatically get your game back if someone leaves your friends list.
Some asshole scammed me out of a TF2 item last month by joining my friends, asking for a trade, getting the item, and then removing himself. Fell for it because I wasn't expecting it and it was the first time it happened. If 'borrowed' games could be kept if they left the list, hellooo abuse. But I doubt Valve would be that reckless with things.
[QUOTE=goon165;41090123]makes me wonder, Maybe "shared library" will be some sort of group thing that, if one person buys a game and puts it in, any one person in the group can play the game.
But only one person at a Time, and from what this says
The person who originally purchased the game reserves the right to boot people off of it.
I wonder if multiple people pledge copies of the same game into a single shared group that this will allow as many people to play the game as there are copies pledged.
This could be very interesting.[/QUOTE]
Might allow you to mark games as "to be shared" and then anyone on your friends list can play them?
And you just boot them out when you want to play it?
[QUOTE=Killerkid;41092268]It already allows you to register without using facebook.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/TIMLK9L.png[/img][/QUOTE]
There was a period when they didn't.
That was when they had just adopted FB log-in, and they though everyone would be A-OK with just that.
Needless to say, they caught themselves in a massive PR shitstorm for it, and rightfully so.
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[QUOTE=Cowabanga;41093257]It would be nice if it was available in my current region. I'm using some crappy site called grooveshark.[/QUOTE]
Nothing wrong with Grooveshark, though the music library is mostly community maintained, so the quality is questionable.
yay, i can finally borrow HL2
oh wait, everyone have it
[img]http://puu.sh/3jkTd.jpg[/img]
i am blockbuster
it's me
[QUOTE=Cowabanga;41093257]It would be nice if it was available in my current region. I'm using some crappy site called grooveshark.[/QUOTE]
Grooveshark isn't that bad. I would say that he's holding really well in competition with Spotify.
Sharing games is nice and stuff, and a plus with Spotify integration so it all works out.
Now we have some interesting additions to Steam that isn't TCG.
[QUOTE=Cowabanga;41093257]It would be nice if it was available in my current region. I'm using some crappy site called grooveshark.[/QUOTE]
Dude, grooveshark is the tits.
[QUOTE=J!NX;41090144]what I want to see is, take a 60 dollar game and the ability to rent it for 5 days for 5 dollars. You can play it [U]full version[/U]with that time, but after that, nope. After renting, 5 dollars is removed from the total price, as you rented it for 5 dollars.
This means "Try before you buy pirating" is much more useless.[/QUOTE]
This will never happen at that price point and it will never take money off the final price
But as long as were pipe dreaming, here's my take that could actually be plausable:
1. $2/day, matching redbox and game rental mythos everywhere. Your time doesn't actually start until the game is fully downloaded.
2. You get some kind of discount on buying the game after the rental period. Ideally what you suggested would be nice (so if you rent for 5 days then its $10 off the price), but i doubt it would ever be agreed on. You can only get that price point during the rental period or within 24hrs of it ending.
3. All games get a 30 minute playtime demo, that is totally free, to see if it will run and how it looks. Cutscene heavy games as such would do good with implementing a quicky "tech demo" feature that people can run within that 30 minute window.
That's cool.
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;41095363]Aw, I would of loved to of been able to play a co-op game with a friend that doesn't have it.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, if you let a friend borrow your copy of a game on a console, you wouldn't be able to play co-op with them.
[QUOTE=Tudd;41089900]Soon the "it's just like steam excuse" with the Xbox One will no longer be valid
[sp]Even though it wasn't in the first place.[/sp][/QUOTE]
ignoring the fact that this steam borrowing may never be implemented fully, will have severe consequences for both parties if they do something bad, and will most likely be [I]heavily[/I] restricted, i see
[QUOTE=J!NX;41090144]what I want to see is, take a 60 dollar game and the ability to rent it for 5 days for 5 dollars. You can play it [U]full version[/U]with that time, but after that, nope. After renting, 5 dollars is removed from the total price, as you rented it for 5 dollars.
[B][U]This means "Try before you buy pirating" is much more useless[/U][/B].[/QUOTE]
I hardly think it will make any sweeping changes. Why would I pay [I]anything[/I] for something I'm not sure I'll even want? That's poor management of ones finances, gambling your money needlessly when the free alternative exists to satisfy your judgement on the purchase already. Multiplayer specific games might be of use to such a system but that's it.
I wonder if it will be like a rental service......................
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;41096344]To be fair, if you let a friend borrow your copy of a game on a console, you wouldn't be able to play co-op with them.[/QUOTE]
You could if developers still gave a shit about split screen co-op.
[QUOTE=The Calzone;41095051][img]http://puu.sh/3jkTd.jpg[/img]
i am blockbuster
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I am Gamestop
[t]http://i.imgur.com/2d1BZQ1.png[/t]
This is very interesting. Allowing you to borrow your games to friends practically brings the retail market to digital. And Microsoft said they wanted to make a new Steam...hehe.
What company is going to shit their greedy pants over this first?
[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;41089970]Uh it would show your friends what you're listening to, it would be integrated into the steam overlay, it would be an incredible addition.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;41091167]I have always wanted some sort of music player integration on the steam overlay or something like they had on MSN which told your friends what you were listening too[/QUOTE]
I'm sorry, but why would the average Steam user care? It's a platform for digital games/software. I personally couldn't care less what music people in my friends list are listening to at a particular moment and if I was I would just ask them. I hated it back in MSN as it just added redundant information but I ignored it as I understood MSN was a purely social messenger so it was somewhat understandable that would be listed, maybe it's just me but I don't understand the appeal of that kind of integration. I'm probably going to get boxes for this post so if anyone can please shed some light on the subject especially if I'm missing out on some fundamental detail I'd appreciate it.
[QUOTE=Pridit;41102208]I'm sorry, but why would the average Steam user care? It's a platform for digital games/software. I personally couldn't care less what music people in my friends list are listening to at a particular moment and if I was I would just ask them. I hated it back in MSN as it just added redundant information but I ignored it as I understood MSN was a purely social messenger so it was somewhat understandable that would be listed, maybe it's just me but I don't understand the appeal of that kind of integration. I'm probably going to get boxes for this post so if anyone can please shed some light on the subject especially if I'm missing out on some fundamental detail I'd appreciate it.[/QUOTE]
Music player integration (that is, an actual system to play music) into the overlay would be nice for people that wish to listen to music and are unable to alt-tab out of full screen-only games. Although it probably won't have support for the things that actually matter in a music player and thus I will never use it.
If it's simply a notice to other people of what one listens to then it's pointless bloat.
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