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Nahh dude has a bigger years of service then steam's age
This screenshot is from 100 years in the future.
Mind asking your future connection to fire up Stanley Parable for me?
Let's see what fuckery they baked in.
Some day...
They'll fire it up mere moments before you finally get the Go Oustide achievement.
WHY DIDN'T THIS FUCKER WARN US ABOUT 9/11
25 years ago, 9/11 wasn't a big deal.
WHY DIDN'T THIS FUCKER REMIND US ABOUT 9/11
If you look very closely, you can see its Photoshop!
The family sharing works okay but the old school way is good too.
In Australia we don't have family sharing for some stupid reason
I dunno if it's "family sharing" or some other thing, but I can play games from my sister's library through some means that I set up a couple of years ago.
Yes it’s family sharing
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I think they might start getting suspicious when the account age is double the average human lifespan and is still in use.
Not true as I've often been born on January 1st in the early 1900's.
I was referring more to the "Years of Service" badge you can find on your Steam profile, whose count begins when your account was created. It shows on the page when you look at the badge itself. Mine shows it was created on August 4, 2006.
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Hey me too, birthday buddy.
Not many situations where you can use the phrase "I've often been born".
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Assuming valve still exists at that point.
Nah, because while it would be very easy to implement something like that, it would require specifically doing it. Programmers have 3 reasons for writing code
It's cool. It's necessary. I was told to do it in exchange for money
(And the secret fourth reason, it just kinda happened. I was building this related thing and I realized it'd be stupid easy to toss it in...I was in a fugue state and I have no idea what I wrote, but it's some of my best code ever)
Devs don't generally care about this kind of thing, and most of the time neither do the business folk. This kind of unnecessary crackdown only comes up when consultants like McKinney, who I've recently learned are the reason everything sucks
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I cannot imagine they’re going to keep family sharing as is - currently a couple of buddies and I shared a family account and now we all have access to over 700 games. I only had to coordinate with one of them, we all basically chained off each other. The abuse must be massive.
I was under the impression that if someone is playing a game from your library you can't access it unless you boot them out (or you put steam in offline mode, meaning no updates or multiplayer for the duration). Is that no longer true?
You can just play another one of the 700. If you want to play together then you need multiple copies.
Ooooooh. I was under the mistaken impression that your whole library was locked down, not just the one game. Good to know!
They changed that in an update a couple months ago, so it's only the game that is being played that's locked and not the whole library
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Yeah but that’s only a problem if both of you want to play the same game at the exact same time. It’s like sharing a physical copy of a game with your friend but it instantly transports to their computer/console.
I replied the same thing to another comment, but I had thought it locked down the whole library rather than just the one game being played. I could have sworn I ran into that issue but it's been a long time since I tried it do I suppose I misremembered.
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How is that abuse? Imagine how many viruses you'll be avoiding by legitimately sharing games with your friends.
Come on dude…are you kidding? You and I could do a family share without any risk to each other and share our entire libraries tonight. That is not the sameas handing off to your buddies. I love the family sharing program, I am currently using it. I am not against piracy. Let’s get all that out of the way.
Surely you see the potential issue here if this is supposed to be a family sharing program?
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Where did they say this?
In response to a customer support message. https://www.resetera.com/threads/to-anyone-who-is-curious-no-you-cannot-transfer-your-steam-account-via-a-will-you-can-only-take-your-games-to-your-graves.875634/
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The solution is GOG (their business model).
You get the individual keys, no DRM.
A couple of years ago my gog exceeded my steam library. Pretty good considering I have around 500 on steam.
.... But wait till you find out how many of those I've actually played... 🙃😓😢
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Yeah my kids basically took over my steam account already on the family gaming computer. Alas.
Your gaming alias now is a generational family name. All hail the House of Sparkles.
I look forward to the day when I pass my screen name on to my son...
I don't think I wanna give them mine....
Failedaborzzzzzzznn and missedperi0d
Another example of a company making clear that we don't truly own the games we play on their platform.
That won't work for long. With the way things are going, we may get expiring accounts after 100 years from your date of birth you registered with.
1901-01-01?
That's not gonna stick, steam can't remember birthdays. And I'm pretty sure everyone told it multiple times we were born January 1 1901
That’s how we’re still using my Dad’s account, it’s mostly used by my brother, but shared with the other gamers in the family
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GOG being the absolute BOSS; u will be able to leave your library as your legacy for future generations.
Anyone know how well GOG can work on Linux? Steam+Proton works really well with very little tinkering
Their Galaxy client seems like it'll never get there. Fortunately we have Heroic Launcher, and it pretty much rocks! I'm fully confident I can enjoy the vast majority of my games on Linux now.
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Well yeah, you just get the non DRM installer and dump it in your NAS, done
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