Re: A (small) Step In The Right Direction

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:05 this Saturday (GMT):

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:46:53 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
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On 3/28/2025 4:14 PM, Zaghadka wrote:

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:24:24 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant
wrote:
 

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/28/2025 7:15 AM, Zaghadka wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:36:37 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
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Steam's "you're only sharing the entire
library" method adds a certain distance to this that shields them from
these questions, but by allowing single-game license-transfers,
Nintendo opens themselves up to this next step.

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I think Steam now allows simultaneous different games playable from the
same shared library. So long as the sharing party isn't playing the
particular game you want to play, you can play their other games. IIRC
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Don't remember when it happened. Not sure if I'm remembering correctly. I
do know that I don't get "Hooray! Lemonhead's* games are available to
play now!" messages any more.
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Sort of.  I just did this with the kids.  You have to add them as a
friend first, then add them as family.  They can play any game that
neither of the other of us are playing that one of us owns.  If you want
to play say something together (which I did want to do with my daughter
and dark souls,) then you still need to have them actually buy a copy
though. (Ended up not doing this as it was obviously way too hard for
her even with my hints and she quit before she even got to a spot we
could play together.)

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Interesting. Oh, let's start a family to share our Stea games. ;)

 
Sure thing step-bro!
 

Step-ant!

noo dont step on ant :(

You joke, but that's actually a possibility. The different family
members don't even have to be in the same vicinity as one another;
they can be an ocean apart and still have access to all your games.
Nor does Valve do any real checking to ensure that 'family members'
are actually related.
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The main restrictions are that
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     a) you can only add so many people to your family group*,
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     b) you can only add or remove people so often and so many times*,
     
     and
   
     c) shitty behavior by somebody playing games in your libray can
        reflect badly on you (so if little Jimmy gets caught cheating
        playing your copy of Counterstrike, it could be YOU that gets
        the VAC-ban).
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Also, if games have other onerous DRM/account requirements (e.g., 'you
must have a Ubisoft account to use this game') they won't show up on
the shared library. Which means an increasingly large number of
triple-A games are excluded from sharing.

Sigh.. classic Ubisoft

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* again, too lazy to check for the specific numbers

Yeah, I know a friend who does that to get free games.
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