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 chaostheory on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:19AM (#34856180)

Well, grujicd considers Steam Family Share to be so broken that he no longer wants to buy games on Steam. That’s fair. What doesn’t make any sense is why he just doesn’t disable it if he hates it so much?

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Re:Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network t... by grujicd on Sunday February 19, 2023 @11:15AM (#34858814)

I guess I hate it because I believed marketing term "family sharing" and did not realize it's "family sharing with caveats and significant limitations". With that incorrect belief I bought a number of games for both kids and myself before I realized full impact of these limitations.

What's worse, even with hindsight I'm not sure how a parent should organize 2-3 accounts to allow all what "family sharing" implies. And consider that kid now plays some Mario game but in a year or two would play Wolfenstein, so it's not easy to separate by "my" and "their" games.

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Re:Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network t... by chaostheory on Sunday February 19, 2023 @11:24AM (#34858921)

Family share doesn’t work for your family though, and it makes you miserable. Why extend the torture?

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