• Steam "Family Sharing" announced.
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QUESTION, for garrys mod. Does this mean that with the shared shit going on, in order to have 2 machines rocking gmod at the same time with content imports, you'd only need: 2 copies of gmod 1 copy of CSS 1 copy of DoD 1 copy of Half-life 1-999999?
[QUOTE=Celestea;42155391]You probably won't be able to lend Max Payne 3 since that requires a CD key.[/QUOTE] There's lots of games that may require CD keys if bought retail. From the wording in the FAQ I assume it's only a problem if it relies on a service like GFWL or uPlay since they don't support sharing in sync with Steam's database. So if Max Payne 3 needs some third party service then yeah it probably won't work, but if it's just a CD key I don't see the issue.
I don't think they mean "library" when they say what they're saying. They specify you can't play the same game twice and having 10 people max but only letting one person play would be counteractive.
my brother and myself use the same account and have done for basically the whole time I've had steam. never had an issue with it
How about multi-account sign in on the same PC also, or does this do this? so if I have a friend come over, he can use my games on his steam account oh, i see it is going to do that. I knew BPM's multilogin would do this.
So is this any different from a user perspective then just sharing your account with someone else? It looks like you still can't both be signed in at the same time with this I know I've gotten a couple games on behalf of my parents (Spore, Bejeweled, etc) and my account's been in offline mode for a couple years on their machine, but I'm guessing this won't do anything for that
[QUOTE=Greenen72;42155524]So is this any different from a user perspective then just sharing your account with someone else? It looks like you still can't both be signed in at the same time with this I know I've gotten a couple games on behalf of my parents (Spore, Bejeweled, etc) and my account's been in offline mode for a couple years on their machine, but I'm guessing this won't do anything for that[/QUOTE] im not going to give my password to someone else
Does this mean I can now play games from my other account without logging into it?
Hey this could be a form of semi-account merging.
uh why? [url]http://steamcommunity.com/groups/familysharing/discussions/0/846964363934331891/#c846964363936082259[/url] everyone's just going to use offline mode or something
[QUOTE=Instant Mix;42155479]my brother and myself use the same account and have done for basically the whole time I've had steam. never had an issue with it[/QUOTE] That's what my brother and I did for years, then I got a job and a line of credit and re-bought most of the games on my own account. At least I got most of them during the sales, I guess.
You aren't actually allowed to share accounts.
Finally my poor best friends can check out the games they'd like to see
Unless i'm massively misunderstanding this it just seems like glorified account sharing. I was hoping to see something a little better than this for game sharing between Steam friends.
Making it so you need to be logged on BUT also making it so both of the users can't use the library simultaneously kind of defeats the point of game sharing. You'd have to leave Steam on all day when you're away and some people play pretty actively, effectively making this a bit pointless. They should at least reduce the shareable devices number from 10 to 5 or so and remove either one or both of the limitations.
This is really stupid. I mean my situation is I'm sick of buying my fiancee single player games that I've already purchased. She is actually family, not a friend, not a co-worker, she lives with me meaning she is on a local network and if I bought a physical console copy, she'd be able to enjoy Assassin's Creed 4 while I play Watch Dogs. The developer/publisher got my money. Why should they care if I want to play Watch Dogs while she plays Assassin's Creed 4? It's a step in the right direction but still, that's really shitty. This is family sharing but it should be called "family sharing for when you're out doing something else"
You should be happy they're doing something in the first place. If you want to play together just buy two copies, I personally find that pretty reasonable. [editline]11th September 2013[/editline] Hate to be blunt
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[QUOTE=Map in a box;42158916]You should be happy they're doing something in the first place. If you want to play together just buy two copies, I personally find that pretty reasonable. [editline]11th September 2013[/editline] Hate to be blunt[/QUOTE] I'm not arguing that I should be able to play the same game while my fiancee plays the same game. That's unfair to the developers of co-op/multiplayer centric games. I'm arguing that when you live in a console household, you're able to play *insert console game* on one console and *insert console game* on another console. Why shouldn't this system be handled like that? Valve isn't doing this out of kindness. Don't get me wrong, Valve is a great company and they have many friendly, community-focused employees but they're still a corporation. Their main objective is profit. Other services are starting to implement services like this and if Valve doesn't come out with their own response, they're going to lose potential profits. [editline]11th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Map in a box;42158916]You should be happy they're doing something in the first place. If you want to play together just buy two copies, I personally find that pretty reasonable. [editline]11th September 2013[/editline] Hate to be blunt[/QUOTE] I wish I could give you bad reading. Seriously did you even read the comment?
why was this posted on my profile? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/MpPByYJ.jpg[/IMG] I didn't even post in this thread, I did give a post or two a rating, so I have a feeling this guy sperged out and posted this on the walls of every person who rated that same comment the same rating.
Now I can re-earn achievements for games I've 100%'d
wait, so if me and my sister can't play on the account at the same time, even if we're in different games, what exactly is new? I already have steam on both of our computers which means she can play games on the family computer when I'm not signed on here. Or I guess she could play in offline. so what is this changing? actually fuck it steam prices are too good for me to be mad
[QUOTE=The Baconator;42160287]why was this posted on my profile? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/MpPByYJ.jpg[/IMG] I didn't even post in this thread, I did give a post or two a rating, so I have a feeling this guy sperged out and posted this on the walls of every person who rated that same comment the same rating.[/QUOTE] You rated agree with this post which didn't even read my comment. [QUOTE=Map in a box;42158916]You should be happy they're doing something in the first place. If you want to play together just buy two copies, I personally find that pretty reasonable. [editline]11th September 2013[/editline] Hate to be blunt[/QUOTE] I was legitimately asking you what the problem is with anything I said and why you'd agree with a post that clearly didn't read what I was saying. I didn't sperg out.
[QUOTE=Ralakis;42161089]You rated agree with this post which didn't even read my comment. I was legitimately asking you what the problem is with anything I said and why you'd agree with a post that clearly didn't read what I was saying. I didn't sperg out.[/QUOTE] guess what that's why we have threads for organizing discussions of topics
Someone started a mega thread here for sharing games with eachother: [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1306745[/url] Also, the group chat is quite interesting.
[QUOTE=supersnail11;42161108]guess what that's why we have threads for organizing discussions of topics[/QUOTE] Well rating someone isn't discussion. Especially when it's a post made by someone lacking the mental capacity to read two sentences.
[QUOTE=Ralakis;42161623]Well rating someone isn't discussion. Especially when it's a post made by someone lacking the mental capacity to read two sentences.[/QUOTE] Don't take ratings seriously. If you want to question what they agree with, question the poster they agreed with.
[QUOTE=imptastick;42161710]Don't take ratings seriously. If you want to question what they agree with, question the poster they agreed with.[/QUOTE] I questioned the person who agreed with it because I thought they were respectable posters with a decent sense in logic. I've questioned both.
What if I'm vac banned on CSS does that mean I can share it on another account and play unbanned?
[QUOTE=itsjustspacy;42162678]What if I'm vac banned on CSS does that mean I can share it on another account and play unbanned?[/QUOTE] Holy shit does this mean i can get back CS:S and Saints Row: The Third from my old VAC banned account? YES
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