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"Can a friend and I share a library and both play at the same time? No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time." So, if one of my friend play on my game, I can play none of my games? Or am I reading this wrong?
Looks like you're right. It's one less step than just giving someone your username and password.
"Can a friend and I share a library and both play at the same time? No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time." So, if one of my friend play on my game, I can play none of my games? Or am I reading this wrong?
"When I authorize a device to lend my library to others, do I limit my own ability to access and play my games? As the lender, you may always access and play your games at any time. If you decide to start playing when a friend is already playing one of your games, he/she will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing."
This has been a rumored coming feature forever but I can't for the life of me figure out how this benefits steam, or even how they convinced publishers to take part in this. Whats their motivation? Did they go over the publishers heads with this? I'm curious to see how this pans out.
Probably the amount of customer-service time they have to spend on stolen accounts. Users can presently share an account with a friend... by using their own credentials on their friend's machine, which is a bad idea for like a bazillion reasons.
This lets you do that without risking your credentials.
Sounds great for a hypothetical Steam Box Seems similar to the way current consoles handle accounts.
Yeah, it's very similar to how XBox Live accounts and digital games work (though, interestingly, it is dramatically inferior to the model Microsoft had proposed for XBox One before everyone got angry and forced them to backpedal - that model had dramatically superior sharing features)
Edit: Ah, it seems steam only shares the whole library, not single games. A pity, and that might very well be a difference.
This has been a rumored coming feature forever but I can't for the life of me figure out how this benefits steam, or even how they convinced publishers to take part in this. Whats their motivation? Did they go over the publishers heads with this? I'm curious to see how this pans out.
Pre-Steam games weren't tied to an account, so this is just bringing that capability back.
"Can a friend and I share a library and both play at the same time? No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time." So, if one of my friend play on my game, I can play none of my games? Or am I reading this wrong?
... on closer inspection, it seems functionally equivalent to logging into steam on a friend's computer, except that you don't have to type in your password on their machine and you can kick them off easily. Considering how much trouble Steam has with phishing and accounts getting hacked, it's obviously a good idea to minimize any use-case where users are allowing others to get at their passwords. This kind of featur…
"Can a friend and I share a library and both play at the same time? No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time." So, if one of my friend play on my game, I can play none of my games? Or am I reading this wrong?
So I can authorise a person to use my account. I can then, at any time, play my own games. But if that other person is playing a game it will kick them off.
I am really excited about this feature. Around the time Portal 2 came out my partner and I lamented the fact that we had to buy two copies if we each wanted to play on our own account, considering how account sharing is against the TOS. I'm sure the people who do account share to get around this will be very happy to know that they don't have to go over and log in their significant other whenever they wish to play a game the other owns.
"Can a friend and I share a library and both play at the same time? No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time." So, if one of my friend play on my game, I can play none of my games? Or am I reading this wrong?
I really wish they would fix this. Why should I not be able to have two separate games of mine running at once?