Steam commercial licence?

[pfroud]

How do gaming lounges use Steam?

In section 2A, the Steam Subscriber Agreement says:

Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a non-exclusive license and right, to use the Content and Services for your personal, non-commercial use (except where commercial use is expressly allowed herein or in the applicable Subscription Terms).

There is something called License Upgrade for Commercial Use but it doesn't look like a real thing.

A lounge is essentially charging for hardware use, but I think charging to use Steam at all would violate the licence.

Perhaps lounges buy commercial licences directly from the developers.

Anybody have any insight?

[DeathBySnuSnu]

you mean like internet cafes and stuff?

i think you register/license with valve and they give you an account for each machine you register with valve games included or customers can use their own

http://cafe.steampowered.com

edit: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_cat.php?id=2

A list of valve games included https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3806-RYSJ-1102

[pfroud]

Thanks for the reply.

It sort of appears the Cyber Cafe thing isn't maintained any more. Here's a discussion which says it's ended, although it's on a different forum. http://forum.smartlaunch.net/Topic29962-18-1.aspx

Do you know if I can request a Cyber Cafe licence?

[FuzzyLemonSoda]

I know it's a bit late, but from what I understand you need to register as a "Site" under their Site Licencing program. You then register a 'Master' computer Steam account on the main store computer/server, and then install and register new 'Slave' accounts each computer and designate them as such.

Registering as a 'Site' appears to be invitation only, but you can request an invite through the link that SnuSnu mentioned: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_cat.php?id=2

I'm trying to work out the purchase price of individual games at the moment, but from my understanding, you need to purchase each game individually on each 'Slave' account and it is more expensive than buying regular licences.

If you come by anything offering information on Multi-Seat licencing or similar, can you post here please?

[pfroud]

Here's what I've learned so far:

The Steam Site Licensing Program (formerly Cybercafé Program) only has a few games. Since I first posted this thread they've made an updated help article about it with lots more info: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3303-QWRC-3436

I've contacted a bunch of game devs individually to ask about commercial licences. Some have their own external licence, some just want you to buy a Steam licence for each machine it will run on.