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Edited by TopWargamer:
9/11/2013 7:55:01 PM
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You can now share your Steam games
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/11/steam-family-sharing-announced-enters-beta?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook
Here's the restrictions (which are fair and acts as if the game was a physical game):
-Can share with up to 10 people.
-Games that require 3rd party software (like GFWL), games that require a login (mainly F2P games), and subscription based games cannot be shared.
-Only 1 person can be playing a game at any given time, with the Steam library holder taking priority.
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I am actually kind of curious as to how offline play will work. Will that disable the feature or could I possibly play offline and allow someone to play my library at the same time.
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64 RepliesSo if anyone but MS does it, it's okay?
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2 RepliesOh my God. Does Steam always have to top-trump everything else? I mean, come on that was something the Xbox One was going to eventually reimplement but Valve went, "Nope, nope, nope. We're here now. We got this. Now." And then into Beta it went. Wow. Well. Great. I mean, seriously, the Steam Box will probably be able to compete with the Xbox One now with cheap Steam games...
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14 RepliesThis is useless to me as I play With friends every time I'm on Steam.
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1 ReplyEdited by Hayabusam60: 9/11/2013 11:40:55 PMDidn't the XB1 try to do this?
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8 RepliesThis is essentially what Microsoft was going to do, but the whiners got rid of it v_v. ffs idiots Still my roomate and I can share stuff now.
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1 ReplyWhat now x1? WHAT NOW???!!!
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Haha Fuko's so adorable.
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It's starting beta next week
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Edited by Obsric: 9/12/2013 2:21:51 PMPerhaps someone here might be able to explain how Microsoft could have implemented their 'family sharing' system, while allowing for the sale of second hand discs, while being a completely offline device? No? So then, I guess instead of trying to make this feature available to all Microsoft customers, they should restrict it to digital sales only...
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Based Gaben. It's not really taking potshots at MS at all. Its a (rather good) way of reducing the acts of piracy that everybody claims plagues the PC gaming platform. People will be more inclined to borrow a game they know a friend has got, than pirate it. The fact that the game "logs out" when the owner comes back on is ingenious too - it asks you if you want to buy the game to continue playing, so may even end up boosting sales too.
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3 RepliesThis is hilarious. Valve steal MS's idea and all the PC fanboys swoop in and claim it to be a great.
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4 RepliesThis is like Steam slapping Microsoft is a massive hardon, holy crap. This is awesome too, I have a younger brother who wants to play some games, but stuff is expensive you know? Now he can share my library with me.
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2 RepliesSounds great and all if I had Steam friends.
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3 RepliesEdited by Winters Darkseid: 9/11/2013 11:19:07 PMWow. This is what the XB1 tried to do. What the -blam!-? I mean, we console plebs aren't used to DRM, but man, this is like putting something sweet in front of you than yanking it away. Unless you're part of the PC mustard race. Then it's all good.
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4 Replies[quote]-Only 1 person can be playing a game at any given time, with the Steam library holder taking priority.[/quote] Meh.
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Cool, now I will be able to play the Metro series.
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this sounds exactly like what X1 tried to do...
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I don't have any friends on steam, and I don't have any games that people probably don't already have.
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OMG! I'm glad I know people who own hundreds of steam games...
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Neat!
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11 RepliesWasn't this the Xbox One's Family Share System?
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O rly? Steam is a pretty cool guy.
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That's cool and all, but I feel like that's bad for business...
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Steam, once again being the better man
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Pretty cool.
