Steam now warns you if a game you're about to buy is already owned by someone in your Steam Family.
Steam now warns you if a game you're about to buy is already owned by someone in your Steam Family.
wonder if it's going to rat someone out by saying something along the lines of
A member of your Steam Family already owns Horny Hentai Ladies: Stupidly huge dongs GOTY
You can put those games as private
ah, right. that's a thing.
Goes to show how little I have needed it (or how little shame I have) :P
Doesn't that still dhow up on your last 3 active games list?
Dad?
You'd notice that when you join their steam family because it would show up in your library
I keep seeing people talking about sexual games on steam. I've yet to see one. I'm sure they exist .. but how common are they? Do people actually play those? Even if I wanted to do so, I would instantly assume because it's on steam there's a chance my friends could see me playing it no matter my settings, and that would be a no-go. It's just awkward.
It'd be like jerking off with the shades open because "well no one is supposed to be in my backyard". Okay but what if some kids are there to get their ball or something? You have to assume unexpected things will happen in life.
It's fairly common, see a lot of them on the top selling games too
If Steam or Valve ever goes public and IPOs, I'm gonna fucking kill myself.
They seem to be the only ones who aren't like going through an enshitification cycle right now.
It all comes down to who succeedes Gabe after his stepping down.
I'm glad that it seems like he's extended the longevity of his life by losing a lot of weight. Have you seen him now? Looks amazing for his age. I think if he continued where he was, he might've passed away at some point or be in a worse condition.
He needs as much time as possible to decide what he's going to do after he's gone.
That's a little dramatic.
I don't think they'll ever become an IPO.
But it's more likely that if Gabe doesn't have someone or something in mind that keeps Steam on track, there's few companies that can buy it. Microsoft could acquire it. Sony could acquire it. Epic games could acquire it.
Companies that would have no care or clue in how to keep Steam as is.
Safest option would be to turn Valve into a foundation, similar to Zeiss: The company owns itself thus can't be bought out, statutory stipulations go along the lines of "Make sure we don't go bankrupt, do great optics, funnel some money to the University of Jena as well as less well off workers in the city". No grand charitable aspirations besides being a good citizen as per 1846 bourgeois values (though that'd be Gabe's choice), otherwise just continue as they've been doing. Make sure all stakeholders (incl. gamers, or at least Valve customers) have standing to enforce those statutes.
Good guy steam
This world really does not deserve Valve
And this boys is why we choose to give money to valve, and as a bonus steam sales are amazing. Valve really knows how to keep a steady income of profit and just dont fck with what works
Valve knows when they have it good and not be greedy. They are essentially a monopoly but choose not to abuse it.
valve makes more money by being decent company than many others combined who actively try to exploit users.
This is the kind of thing that makes poeple love valve
It needs warnings for of a game requires you to be connected to the internet to play, and if the developer has ever deactivated usage rights to their games.
Technically you have those on the Steam Deck rating
Good guy steam. Their family sharing beta is currently a game changer for people like me whose friends have diverse gaming interests and thus, we can try out each other’s games without the need to buy them.
How do you get isthereanydeal inside steam?
I believe it's the decky plugin for SteamOS
https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-plugin-database/pull/605
I might be wrong, hut this is at least a way to do it.
Sick thanks
It's the Augmented Steam extension for your browser of choice.
Has the Steam Family update launched yet? The one that lifted the limitation on playing different games from the same account at the same time. I feel like last I saw it was in beta.
Was also wondering if anyone has a good sense on how they're policing Family Libraries. Does it work to share with close friends or am I going to want to be sure I'm sharing only with household members?
You can opt into the Family Sharing beta and get the features. You can only join one family per year so choose wisely as they say.
Okay good to know. I'll be using it to try to entice a few friends at least half way away from their Playstations to Steam Decks.
I'm in the beta with my wife and cousin. It works great so far. I was able to try out dragons dogma 2 from the cousins account, remember why I hated dd1, and promptly un-installed it.
Ha I actually thought I liked DD1 after I played it for about 45 minutes. But that was years ago and I haven't touched it again soo
The one that lifted the limitation on playing different games from the same account at the same time.
That should never have been a limitation in the first place. If I have two games installed outside of Steam there's nothing stopping me from playing both at the same time, so WTF does Valve think ever justified it?
Agreed it was a chincy restriction. I'm glad they're righting that with the new Family Sharing.
something tell me the publishers are not gonna be happy about this and will try to sabotage it.
They cant do shit. What are they going to do? Stop releasing on the biggest platform?
Real nice.
I appreciate this, and now I'm just waiting for it to show me family library games when browsing the store. I have games on my wishlist that another family member owns. A flag that says "family library" would be appreciated - similar to "in library" and "on wishlist."
- I don't see it when I browse the store on my steam deck or the mobile app. Unsure if it would show this to me on the desktop app.