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It seems like baby steps though. We really should have a way to loan games at the very least, and this still isn't really scratching that itch.
How? Isn't this better than loaning? Or do you mean trading?
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It seems like baby steps though. We really should have a way to loan games at the very least, and this still isn't really scratching that itch.
How? Isn't this better than loaning? Or do you mean trading?
This is a way to avoid telling people your steam password to "borrow" your account, not borrow a single game.
This would have been very useful to me when, in University, my roommates and all played our games on the living room gaming PC.
I can imagine this being useful for siblings to share a game library mostly bought by parents, or a spouse playing a partner's library. So certainly not useless, but it isn't loaning a game to a friend for a week, unless you're not going to play games at the same time as the friend.
A brilliant move would be to offer discounts on purchasing a game if the lender kicks you off while you are playing. "Sorry we have to kick you off while you are playing, it looks like the owner wants to play game X right now. Purchase the game for yourself at 10% off and keep playing immediately!"
"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?
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Because otherwise you could co-ordinate which games to buy with your friends so you can all share a single game library for single player games.
If multiple users could be playing your game, you could also avoid all buying the same game for multiplayer. That seems reasonable for them to want to avoid.
"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?
"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." 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 th…
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 part where when your friend decides to play the game you are borrowing from him you get a notice to buy the game or be forced to quit within a few minutes. Edit: It actually looks even more restrictive in that if your friend decides to play any game on their steam library then you will be booted.
Valve often talks about trying to provide a service that is more convenient than pirating, and this looks like another step in that direction. If I'm playing a pirated game and want to share it with a friend, it would involve getting them to torrent/crack it, or uploading it to a file sharing host. Using Valve's new program, sharing a purchased game is as simple as sharing it with them on steam. I'm curious as to wha…
It seems like baby steps though. We really should have a way to loan games at the very least, and this still isn't really scratching that itch.
Valve often talks about trying to provide a service that is more convenient than pirating, and this looks like another step in that direction. If I'm playing a pirated game and want to share it with a friend, it would involve getting them to torrent/crack it, or uploading it to a file sharing host. Using Valve's new program, sharing a purchased game is as simple as sharing it with them on steam. I'm curious as to wha…
It seems like baby steps though. We really should have a way to loan games at the very least, and this still isn't really scratching that itch.
I obviously understand the appeal. Who doesn't like free shit? If you want to "borrow" a game from a friend just pirate it. That at least saves the platform holder some bandwidth costs.
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I'm hoping they will somehow figure out how to fix this soon, given this announcement. Obviously they can't let you have machines with your account all over the globe logged on at the same time, but if they let you have multiple machines logged on from the same IP address (thank you NAT) and still prevent you from playing a game on two machines at the same time, that should do it... Personally, I have a desktop and a…
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing - constrain it to a single IP and no sharing individual games. That would go a long way. Then again, you know some dedicated pirates will just VPN the damned thing. Or at the very least give us a way to avoid keying in the password over and over again - I already logged in here, you can lock the steam account for use-from-elsewhere without forcing me to key in a password to unlock…