Steam Game Sharing

[UnknownError]

Apparently not everyone saw this yet, but here you go.

http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/

Just in my opinion, people are going to buy a lot less Steam games.

[Fluffalupagus]

Question is, can they be online while you're accessing their library? Like is it the same as accessing their account, or is it completely separate? Let's say I wanted to play the game he's playing at the same time, is that a possibility?

[Blackllama]

They might be able to be online, but cannot play at the same time. It is a bit like lending your account, except they can't fuck with anything and you can booth them off at any time when you want to play. I don't see this doing much harm.

[Kingtrue]

I've been looking for something like this.
Single player games don't go far past a certain point, and if a friend wants in to play, I see no reason in passing it along.

I can also see this going past local computers, esp. if this mode is enabled offline.

[AlphaWeeaboo]

This is great. They even encourage it between close friends, not just family.

As for any questions on two people using it; If friend is playing your game and you decide to hop on friend will get message that he will be booted out in a few minutes and it gives him a link to buy the game I think.

Overall a genius concept and the way they are handling it is pretty workable.

[HerpDerpMike]

Will this give access to hackers? If they get vac banned on one account, they can simpley transfer the game to an non-vac banned account..
Unless it works differently to prevent that..?

[AlphaWeeaboo]

Games don't transfer. It's basically logging into their account without logging into their account if that makes sense. I assume VAC banned people would still be unable to play VAC using games because they are still technically using their main account that is VAC banned.

[arth987]

Thats pretty cool, i was not looking foward to buying Garrys Mod again.

[Muffins]

Thats pretty cool, i was not looking foward to buying Garrys Mod again.

What happened to your Gmod?