Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network to another PC

Re:Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network t... by goosedragons on Saturday February 18, 2023 @08:33PM (#34853144)

Isn't Xbox home console exactly what I described as a master console? That console can play whatever offline and other users can use that content linked to that account. Then you can login into that account on a friend's console or a second console and use that accounts games while online? So you can have two games from one account being played simultaneously online which is not doable on Steam.

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Re:Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network t... by CharlesW on Saturday February 18, 2023 @09:09PM (#34853434)

> Then you can login into that account on a friend's console or a second console and use that accounts games while online?

As the FAQ I quoted above appears to confirm, you can share games with other profiles, but only on the single device blessed as the "home console".

Of course, you can always pass physical discs around. IIRC, for digital purchases there's a convoluted way to use a single purchase with multiple profiles on multiple devices, but not at the same time. In other words, co-op requires multiple copies of a game. If purchased digitally, they must be bought using separate profiles since one profile can't buy a game twice.

It's quite possible I'm wrong about some facet(s) of this. Hopefully "Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family" fixes this, but if it only fixes the problem for Game Pass games I'm not sure how much value it'll have for me.

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Re:Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network t... by goosedragons on Sunday February 19, 2023 @06:02AM (#34856485)

Yes, but you can log into another console with the same account and play the titles you own so long as you're online and logged in. So you can play a game you bought on your account while someone else plays a game bought on your account on the home console. So two consoles simultaneously.

What some people do is they set their friend's Xbox as their home console and their friend sets their Xbox as their home console and then they both just stay logged in and online on their respective consoles. This lets them play all their friend's games but they can still play their own.

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Re:Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network t... by CharlesW on Sunday February 19, 2023 @01:27PM (#34860331)

I think if you try this for a co-op scenario you'll find that it will fail, but it's possible it just failed for everything we tried. In any case, setting someone else's device to be our home console is a non-starter for me. Thanks for digging in with me on this, though!

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