Valve Announces Family Sharing On Steam, Can Include Friends

Deathspawner writes "Valve has today announced its next attempt at a console-killer: 'Family Sharing' is a feature that will allow you to share your Steam library with family and close friends. This almost seems too good to be true, and while there are caveats, this is going to be huge, and Valve knows it. As Techgage notes, with it you can share nearly your entire Steam library with family or friends, allowing them to earn their own achievements, and have their own saved games. 'Once a device is authorized, the lender's library of Steam games becomes available for others on the machine to access, download, and play. Though simultaneous usage of an account’s library is not allowed, the lender may always access and play his games at any time. If he decides to start playing when a friend is borrowing one of his games, the friend will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing.'"

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Too Little Too Late IMO

[dryriver]

I can see how this functionality can work well with school-agers/teenagers. But with adults/married couples? Maybe if you know other couples who like to game or something. ----- This is better than nothing, I suppose. But it still doesn't let me do what I most want to do: To SELL games over Steam that I don't use/play anymore. ---- In the final analysis, I think that this is mostly about Steam trying to desperately pretend that it isn't draconian DRM; That Steam somehow has "a heart", even though it is all about DOLLARS in actuality. ------- Wake me when I can buy/sell games 2nd hand over Steam. THAT would actually make me happy.. =)