Comment on Introducing Steam Families

pmmeyourtits@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could before, but any games with steam DRM (which is most of them) would lock your library if your spouse was using it.

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  • ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It would not lock your library if someone was playing one of your games. You could start any game in your library and the family member would be given a 15 minute period to wrap up their session before being booted. It had nothing to do with steam drm either.

    Source: I actually used family sharing a few times.

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    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The steam DRM does matter, games that don’t have it could be played without it licking the library. I didn’t know that they gave you a full 15 min though, I just knew my son would complain about being unable to play unless I was in something DRM free like Caves of Qud.

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  • pmmeyourtits@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    *Most people could. My library has some kind of fucked issue. Had to reach out to steam support who were absolutely useless.

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