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    2 months ago

    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

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    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.

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        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.

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      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.

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    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

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      valve makes more money by being decent company than many others combined who actively try to exploit users.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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?

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      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.

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        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.

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      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?

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        Agreed it was a chincy restriction. I’m glad they’re righting that with the new Family Sharing.

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      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.

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        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

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    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.