Re: Even Epic Knows Their Client Sucks

On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:46:27 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:00:11 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 21:39 this Monday (GMT):

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Game sharing is reasonably good on Steam too. Those were my two big asks.

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Oh yea, I never used Steam Family, but from what I heard it works pretty
well.

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As loathe as I am to compliment Valve... the Family Sharing /is/
pretty good. I use it not only to share my account with other family
members (two of whom are quite some distance away from me, yet Valve
hasn't raised an eyebrow), but also to share my games with my other
computers (so I can play two games simultaneously in the same
household... which sometimes happens when I'm benchmarking, or when
I've friends over).
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My only suggestions for improvement would be:
a) I don't like that families have to set up accounts for their
  kids. I dislike the idea of being potentially tracked from a
  young age. I wish a single account could be shared (perhaps
  with lock-down features) across multiple machines.
b) I wish it was more obvious when somebody else was using one
  of the games in my library. Right now the only way to tell
  seems to be if I try to play it and I get the error message
  telling me the game is already in use.

Oh, also,

c)  The Library is shared in its entirity, rather than on a
    game-by-game basis. Now, in some cases this is fine, but if
    you have a kid it may not be. Yes, you /can/ then go in and
    exclude certain games, but if you have a library of a beyond
    a certain size it can be troublesome to go through and
    exclude dozens of games just so little Timmy can access your
    more kid-friendly titles.

    An option to 'share all' /and/ 'share by title' would be
    welcome.