If your friend/family member is online, play one of your own games. If not, happy days. Better than a kick in the head.
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Nope, while you guys are right about the lost sales it kinda is useless. You can just share your account with your family or with your friends, and if you don't trust them enough to share the account then you're not really friends. Plus if you're worried about people renting their accounts even with this system it will still be possible, shocking i know but there are games outside of steam, people can just play those while someone else is on their accounts.
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I think the whole point is so that achievements/game progress is not altered by someone else playing your game.
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USE YOUR HEADS, for example take a call of duty game, lets say the relatively popular black ops II, take their pc multiplayer count and times it by 2 online at one time. NOT EVERYONE WILL SHARE WITH FAMILY, PEOPLE WOULD SHARE WITH ANYONE ELSE EVEN FOR PROFIT IF THEY COULD DO 2+ PEOPLE ON THE SAME ACCOUNT AT THE SAME TIME.
Rather we should focus on improving the system with ideas, I think if you provide information about family you should be able to do Co-op WITH ONLY THAT FAMILY MEMBER or singleplayer, and not multiplayer with the world. ITS A STEP to a great system, why kick a baby when its trying to learn how to run?
Come on guys, dont be like everyone else and just say its stupid. Mention whats wrong with the idea and provide an answer. The internet is full of useless information, dont be part of the fold.
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The same reason the Internet kicked the Xbox One down when trying to implement these new ideas correctly.
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Xbox One's family sharing was way better... you could share your entire digital library with up to 9 people and everybody play any game of the same library as long as they all were playing different titles.
But the Internet exploded and now console's are pretty much the same as last gen but with prettier graphics.
And I'm sure people will try to justify this same idea for Steam and its implementation just because it's VALVe...
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Xbox had a relatively good family sharing. But video games now a days went from gaming with friends, girlfriends and colleagues to play buy yourself.
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It still kicks Steam's new FSharing. Imagine you have a son, father or brother, why bother paying twice even if you play separately?
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I think steam will be the exact same for me, useless feature or not... Unless they decide to completely redesign the layout of the pages and your games and stuff, limit the amount of time you can game per day/week or make Steam a subscription based system I don't think I'll care much about what they do.
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+1
origin support beats steam's by a wider margin than the rest of steam beats origin. why can't they learn from that?
or if not live support at least a support staff that actually reads your emails before copy/pasting boilerplate from the faq and assuming the problem solved. or failing that at least one that does so in less than 2 weeks.
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My experience with Origin support was not overwhelming me with confidence, especially when they were asking me for my account details without telling me why they needed it. The most I was able to get from him was, "to apply some allowences" which was bs since this was dealing with a game that pretty much doesn't work 99% of the time.
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Stop complaining, it's still a great feature. I'm not playing 24 hours per day so my friends will like this opportunity to play something from my library.
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They are. But that doesn't mean we have free time at the same moment, right?
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if both of you attend school/work, eat and sleep at normal hours and play any game for any length of time it easily could.(especially if you also do normal social things like have a girlfriend or hang out at normal times too. which eat up large chunks of time at roughly the same timeslots)
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lol. its easy enough to find randoms strangers on the other side of the globe and use their games
which is exactly what family sharing isn't
...while family sharing on the other hand is gimped into total impractical uselessness as the functional equivalent of what you could already do before the feature existed.
(If a feature functions far better as a form of abuse than it does as intended(with as intended not working much better than can easily be done before it was implemented) then thats a failure as a feature lol)
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Do you want to buy one copy of game and play it on many pc at same time? :) do you understand that it will very reduce sales of games licenses? i don't think that any game developers or distributors agree with you :)) maybe i'm wrong, or just don't understand...
But two peoples can play different games from 1 account on different PCs at same time?
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It maybe poor wording from the Valve associate/mod/admin/worker-bee that could cause this confusion. Based solely on the image provided, there is not enough evidence to say that is what happens. Just because it has not been corrected, doesn't mean it is true.
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Its actually useless said by this guy.
Here quote.
People are in for a MASSIVE disappointment if things don't change
Let's face it, the people reading the headlines on Kotaku/Forbes are cheering Valve for implementing a great system, however if you look in the FAQ, you'll find the biggest downer imaginable.
http://i.imgur.com/ChSbAbu.png
Launch a game while your family member/buddy is playing and it will kick them out. Even if you're playing a completely different game. I understand not allowing two people to use one copy for multiplayer but not allowing someone to play Assassin's Creed while you play Bioshock?
What's the sense in that? No developer cares. No publisher cares. It's an arbitrary restriction that does nothing but annoy and drive away the consumer to other sources of entertainment if the time comes when they want to play a game.
People may be chanting VALVE in the comment section of Gizmodo right now but imagine what's going to happen when people find out that the fineprint makes this pretty much useless for people who actually play their games?
Now is the time for change, if you want things to change, show your concern. It's not too late. If you want, sign a community made petition.
Petition.
In short, the thing that whenever the borrower opens a game, the other device which is currently playing a game gets kicked out.
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