Recent content by MainframeMouse

Thanks pikminiman

I think they did but never got upvoted enough.

Here is where the balancing act comes in. Valve want to motivate people into buying games, but it also has to be fair. While a friend might buy their own copy of a shared single player game, a family is not going to buy a second copy of a game unless its a multiplayer.

I'm beta testing the in home streaming too. While 2 machines can be logged in at the same time omly one game can be active, start a new game on other machine and the first game shuts down.

Have you got a link to that? We've been asking for this for over 6 months and valve have been stubbornly silent on the issue. There has been, as far as I know, no official response to any question regarding changing the library lock. And thanks for reading Are they games they definitely...

Unfortunately it is not an issue that can be summarised in a few sentances. It requires a number of analogies and scenarios to explain that the system is unfair to those thst purports to be targeted for.

Is that "OKAY" as in "okay, I can see where you're comming from" Or OKAY as in I'll say "OKAY" and hope the mad rambling man moves on.

I was in the second wave of beta testers and commenting on this since SFS first went into beta. In the deep history of the suggestions forums there are pleanty of requests for a SFS like feature some with my name on them. This is not a sunden "ooh its out of beta lets moan", its a long term...

Firstly let me say I don't want an open system that can be easily abused. I want a system that is locked down but fair, which the current system is not. If I'm playing Tomb Raider then that game should be locked out, no-one else can play that game while I'm playing it. However all my other...

Imagine me and you on a park Bench sharing a pizza in ValveLand. 8 slices of pizza which I purchased. I pick up the first slice and start eating, under valveland law the pizza box is shut untill i stop eating. I finish my first slice and the box lid opens, hungry you grab a slice and then I...

The ability to instantly recall lent games still does not make up for the fact only one game can be active at any one time. As I said, if I lend you a book from my library it can still read any of the other books with out taking that book away trom you.

Chaps your description of the SFS in the video is misleading. You say "as long as no more than one player interacts with a giving title at the same time" I truely wish this was the case, but it not. Only one person can access the library of games at a time. If you have 100 games and you play...

No, no we don't have anything like sharing. We have a system called Steam Family Sharing which falls very short of the description Anna Sweet made when SFS was first announced. Read http://steamcommunity.com/groups/familysharing/discussions/0/630802979334897616/ and...

Off the top of my head. It favours friends and extended family over close family living in one house. 5 friends/cousins sharing are all likely to have full libraries and when cross sharing are unlikely to find them unable to play. Add long distance friends then the chances of blocking each...

I can't believe no-one asked him about the inadequacies and unfairness of SFS, and what is the reason that Valve can not do a per game sharing system.