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@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly

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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly

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@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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    If you have kids, they can’t play 2 completely different games on two different computers.

    Steam does support that tho. That’s what Family Sharing is. And it works really well.

    Now, if you wanted to play the same game at the same time, that’s on a single Steam account, that you can’t do. But I’m pretty sure you can’t do that on EGS, either. Not without 2 accounts and 2 copies of the game.

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      No, it explicitly does not work that way. If you share a game to another family member, and that family member plays that game, you are not allowed to play any other game at all on steam.

      “A Steam library can only be used by one user at a time to play one game at a time. The same is true if that library is being accessed by another user via Family Sharing.”

      https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/57A7-503C-991F-E9A8#:~:text=A Steam library can only,another user via Family Sharing.&text=Rate limit exceeded-,A Steam account may authorize Family Library Sharing on up,in a 90 day period.

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        I know the wording there is fucked up, but have you used it? Because you can play two separate games at the same time with it, but you can’t play the same exact game as each other. I use it all the time to play stuff my sister has that I don’t, while she plays something else.

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          Unless you’ve got some weird special option, they’re right, as soon as you launch a game in your library, it becomes unusable to family sharing, my wife and I use it but it’s very limiting in that aspect.

          It even notifies you when the “family library” becomes available.

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        Two DIFFERENT games will work. Playing the SAME game SIMULTANEOUSLY will not work.

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