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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

something tell me the publishers are not gonna be happy about this and will try to sabotage it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They cant do shit. What are they going to do? Stop releasing on the biggest platform?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Valve knows when they have it good and not be greedy. They are essentially a monopoly but choose not to abuse it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

This world really does not deserve Valve

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It all comes down to who succeedes Gabe after his stepping down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How do you get isthereanydeal inside steam?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

It's the Augmented Steam extension for your browser of choice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Sick thanks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Technically you have those on the Steam Deck rating

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

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.
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

This is the kind of thing that makes poeple love valve

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