Steam Announces Family Sharing - Looking forward to this !
Valve announcement:
Coming Soon: Players who share computers can also share their Steam games
September 11, 2013 – Steam Family Sharing, a new service feature that allows close friends and family members to share their libraries of Steam games, is coming to Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC, Mac, and Linux games and software. The feature will become available next week, in limited beta on Steam.
Steam Family Sharing is designed for close friends and family members to play one another's Steam games while each earning their own Steam achievements and storing their own saves and application data to the Steam cloud. It's all enabled by authorizing a shared computer.
“Our customers have expressed a desire to share their digital games among friends and family members, just as current retail games, books, DVDs, and other physical media can be shared,” explained Anna Sweet of Valve. “Family Sharing was created in direct response to these user requests.”
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.
For more information about Steam Family Sharing and the beta program, please visit
[url]store.steampowered.com/sharing[/url]
Coming Soon: Players who share computers can also share their Steam games
September 11, 2013 – Steam Family Sharing, a new service feature that allows close friends and family members to share their libraries of Steam games, is coming to Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC, Mac, and Linux games and software. The feature will become available next week, in limited beta on Steam.
Steam Family Sharing is designed for close friends and family members to play one another's Steam games while each earning their own Steam achievements and storing their own saves and application data to the Steam cloud. It's all enabled by authorizing a shared computer.
“Our customers have expressed a desire to share their digital games among friends and family members, just as current retail games, books, DVDs, and other physical media can be shared,” explained Anna Sweet of Valve. “Family Sharing was created in direct response to these user requests.”
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.
For more information about Steam Family Sharing and the beta program, please visit
[url]store.steampowered.com/sharing[/url]
This is totally awesome. I have multiple pc's in my house, and two Steam accounts. I buy and gift games to my kids steam account often. But, sometimes I can't afford two copies of a game, so I just buy it for myself, and sometimes let my kids play some of those games on my main powerhouse pc. With this new family sharing, I can let them play some of my library from their own pc. Pretty damn cool.
This is totally awesome. I have multiple pc's in my house, and two Steam accounts. I buy and gift games to my kids steam account often. But, sometimes I can't afford two copies of a game, so I just buy it for myself, and sometimes let my kids play some of those games on my main powerhouse pc. With this new family sharing, I can let them play some of my library from their own pc. Pretty damn cool.
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Only problem is that only one person at a time can access your library, so if my friend is playing my copy of Skyrim and I want to play Trine 2, he gets kicked out.
Its great for people to use when you're away from your PC, but it sucks if they want to use it at the same time as you. Still, its better than nothing.
Only problem is that only one person at a time can access your library, so if my friend is playing my copy of Skyrim and I want to play Trine 2, he gets kicked out.
Its great for people to use when you're away from your PC, but it sucks if they want to use it at the same time as you. Still, its better than nothing.
Coming Soon: Players who share computers can also share their Steam games
September 11, 2013 – Steam Family Sharing, a new service feature that allows close friends and family members to share their libraries of Steam games, is coming to Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC, Mac, and Linux games and software. The feature will become available next week, in limited beta on Steam.
Steam Family Sharing is designed for close friends and family members to play one another's Steam games while each earning their own Steam achievements and storing their own saves and application data to the Steam cloud. It's all enabled by authorizing a shared computer.
“Our customers have expressed a desire to share their digital games among friends and family members, just as current retail games, books, DVDs, and other physical media can be shared,” explained Anna Sweet of Valve. “Family Sharing was created in direct response to these user requests.”
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.
For more information about Steam Family Sharing and the beta program, please visit
[url]store.steampowered.com/sharing[/url]
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Its great for people to use when you're away from your PC, but it sucks if they want to use it at the same time as you. Still, its better than nothing.
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