Steam family sharing have a geo lock and one year timer seems incredibly intrusive and unnecessary

[MrSteel300]

What the hell , first of all steam sharing was already an inferior feature from the consoles and streaming platform and now all of a sudden they copied netflix's family sharing and made it so you can only share within one house hold? and there is a one year useless wait?

why what happened , it;s great they removed the weird offline thing with family sharing but why put in something that is not the norm? this feels like ubi and ea levels of mentality

[Aachen]

How is a one-year cooldown intrusive?

With whom did you discuss the structure to decide the requirements were not necessary?

[Boblin the Goblin]

This is to stop people who would sell their family share access for profit.

If you don't like the new terms, blame them.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by Aachen:

How is a one-year cooldown intrusive?

With whom did you discuss the structure to decide the requirements were not necessary?

A majority of the people I see upset about this seem to bead they can't abuse the feature anymore.

[MrSteel300]

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

This is to stop people who would sell their family share access for profit.

If you don't like the new terms, blame them.

no i'm not gonna blame anymore, steam family sharing worked fine for years and a few people doing illegal ♥♥♥♥ isn't anyone's concern, real life doesn't work like an imaginary line on a white board, steam works by giving more coinvent service then pirates and family sharing with friends and families outside a person's region was one of them. the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ industry has family sharing and the system works perfectly. I can't believe this geo lock would have even come to place in the modern effing age of the internet

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

This is to stop people who would sell their family share access for profit.

If you don't like the new terms, blame them.

no i'm not gonna blame anymore, steam family sharing worked fine for years and a few people doing illegal ♥♥♥♥ isn't anyone's concern, real life doesn't work like an imaginary line on a white board, steam works by giving more coinvent service then pirates and family sharing with friends and families outside a person's region was one of them. the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ industry has family sharing and the system works perfectly. I can't believe this geo lock would have even come to place in the modern effing age of the internet

It wasn't just a few. It was so bad Steam would actively shut down family sharing groups because they were full of people selling the service.

[MrSteel300]

Originally posted by Aachen:

How is a one-year cooldown intrusive?

With whom did you discuss the structure to decide the requirements were not necessary?

it's more useless and intrusive cause it doesn't accomplish anything, what the hell so if i wanna change accounts put the user in a one year timer? the whole of steam store is literally successful cause it provides features the best available from other sectors of entertainment but usually it's doing stuff counterintuitive to that, even custom music was removed like wtf

[Aachen]

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

…. I can't believe this geo lock would have even come to place in the modern effing age of the internet

It’s not that hard to believe.

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

it's more useless and intrusive cause it doesn't accomplish anything ….

That statement seems …. incorrect.

[MrSteel300]

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

no i'm not gonna blame anymore, steam family sharing worked fine for years and a few people doing illegal ♥♥♥♥ isn't anyone's concern, real life doesn't work like an imaginary line on a white board, steam works by giving more coinvent service then pirates and family sharing with friends and families outside a person's region was one of them. the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ industry has family sharing and the system works perfectly. I can't believe this geo lock would have even come to place in the modern effing age of the internet

It wasn't just a few. It was so bad Steam would actively shut down family sharing groups because they were full of people selling the service.

then by all means shut them down , bravo on that, however don't make things inconvenient for the billions who would use steam. Only an idiot from ea and ubi or should i say netflix would make a move like this except when it comes to steam , at least that's what i thought when i was going to family share with my brother and his friend in eu

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

It wasn't just a few. It was so bad Steam would actively shut down family sharing groups because they were full of people selling the service.

then by all means shut them down , bravo on that, however don't make things inconvenient for the billions who would use steam. Only an idiot from ea and ubi or should i say netflix would make a move like this except when it comes to steam , at least that's what i thought when i was going to family share with my brother and his friend in eu

You are literally part of the reason they changed it

[MrSteel300]

Originally posted by Aachen:

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

…. I can't believe this geo lock would have even come to place in the modern effing age of the internet

:plumphelmet: It’s not that hard to believe.

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

it's more useless and intrusive cause it doesn't accomplish anything ….

That statement seems …. incorrect.

right....i just checked your profile and it seems you are from usa, this law does seem like it was build with your people in mind, same with Netflix, freaking hell you guys screw up things so much for the rest of us

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

You are literally part of the reason they changed it

......you have never used family sharing on consoles and streaming platforms have you

I have.

That doesn't change what I said.

[Wolfpig]

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

......you have never used family sharing on consoles and streaming platforms have you.

Streaming services want you to pay them for more then one Streaming device in the same household.
"Family Sharing" on Consoles usually (if it is what i have in mind) means you log into the console with your account, and games might be shared to other accounts on that device......also something which is not wanted to be used outside of it.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Aachen:

How is a one-year cooldown intrusive?

Aren't you swapping families 3 or four times a year? I'm now with my summer family. They have a cool pool near the beach.

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

steam works by giving more coinvent service then pirates and family sharing with friends and families outside a person's region was one of them.

They actually gave a HUGE boost in usability for families. Now games are pooled and all can be played independently.
Region and family hopping locks aren't an issue for most families, as they're all locally near.

[Piston Smashed™]

It's called Family Sharing not Global Sharing...

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

People immediately started posting sharing/begging threads the day the new beta went live and people still do today.

The 1 year cooldown is not enough.

The same store country lock is a slight improvement over the old SFS.