Family Sharing Beta started

have you even read the complaints on this shit sharing system? You need to login to your friend's machine before you can authorize that PC to be shared with your library. SO much for you account information should be kept private when I can just plant a keylogger on my own system and let my friend login to my PC to share his library.

Also screwing up your save games is a very weak reasoning for family sharing, only useful for those lazy ppl who let someone play on their own account. If you are truly worried about your save game, you know that you need to backup it or else risk screwing it up.

If separate achievements and save games is the only good thing about this, then valve has wasted their resources making this where only a few handful of ppl will took advantage of this.

how do you know? are you the NSA? Have you been snooping on my download history? I haven';t even watched a single anime show since last month.
How can I appreciate this shit if offline mode is better.

Or just make steam in my home PC stay in offline mode so I doesn't need to give him my password

You have to log in at least once with your account, on the PC you want to be sharing library on. Or alternatively, your friend uses his Steam account to log in on your PC, and requests access to library. But then he is the one "risking" his details on your keylogger-infested PC :P

You have to be physically present on the other computer to log in. You have to physically type your username and password on the other computer's keyboard.

No. Too dangerous. Only if you're the sysadmin of all family computers.

well you have to read their posts by replacing ”family” with ”russian stranger I traded library access with” and substitute ”nigerians” for friend.

once you know what they're really complaining about risking make more sense

I'm not interested in playing a friend's game. I'd like my wife to be able to play something on the HTPC in the living room while I play something in the study without having to set one of them to Offline mode.

i don´t. sometimes i don`t play foresome weeks. it´s nice that in this time my friends who dont play or buy any games could test some games without spending money :)

You get invited to the beta if you're in the Family Sharing Steam Group. I got an invite myself as well.

i myself play and chat during the same session, maybe others do it also. i have zero interest in achievements. i'm not saying it is good or not for whatever reason; anyone is free to have his/her own idea. and to answer to your first question, oh yes i am that dumb. now one more question: are you even able to make a phrase without offending words?

what's wrong in chatting while playing? O.O

I often chat when playing games. Not every session has to be dedicated, you can play something just for fun you know.

I guess I'm more social than you are, but I actually chat to people while gaming. Maybe you are one of those people that need alone time, but most people actually like the feature and talk to people all the time.

"because families live together" not always they don't

But ok, let us forget what some would judge as edge cases. "FS is designed for people who live together." So what's stopping anyone from playing one's games in one's PC? Or having one's SteamGuard authorize different PCs in the same household, so you can use your PC while your family member(s) play using your account (and vice versa)?

Considering all the limitations of FS, this doesn't make sense to me.

Considering family isn't always trustworthy or tech savvy enough to avoid doing something stupid on their PC, might as well rename this feature to Trusty People Sharing. :p

This. Plus it's simple AF. You just give your CLOSE friends your login, they login, authorize their PC, maybe change your pw back if you want and you're done. If you don't wanna give your login to your best friends, then there's something wrong with the friendship imo.