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Subject: Re: A (small) Step In The Right Direction
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:10:08 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>
>>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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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.)
>>>>
>>>> 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. 
>
> The main restrictions are that 
>
>      a) you can only add so many people to your family group*, 
>
>      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).
>
> 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

>
>
>
> * 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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