steam family sharing increasing library use limit.

[Arazadaz]

Steam should have family sharing to have a library to be used by more than one person. First of all, I know steam can make it so it knows its family such as the ip address for example, even if someone was to share it with a friend the profits lost would be little compared to what is made every year. This is even more so if a game was bought by bringing money together by your family member, or whoever else pitched in the money. Also, I would really like to play a game with my room mate, not really family, but close enough. This can't be done if only one of us can only play the game, and that defeats the purpose of even having family sharing. I mean, you can at least have it so they can play another game in the library while you play another. Also, no one is gonna mine it if only 2, maybe 4 at max can only play different, and or same the games at once. It would be to complicated, and people would get annoyed of it, espesially if it was limited to the ip only. Last but not least, Family sharing should be allowed to more than one, otherwise whats the point of it, you can do the same thing by letting the person login to your account pretty much.

[wuddih]

nope.

[MainframeMouse]

The code behind in home streaming could be used to detect those on the same network ans a small ammount of effort can detect vpn use.

This is something valve could impliment. Once again I will state clearly, the library lock does not stop abuse. Those abusing SFS to get free game games are less likely to be affected by the library lock, than a real family sharing their games.

Its sole purpose is to make sharing impractical in multiple computer households and force families into rebuying games they already own.

The OP is just the next in a thousand long line of people all asking for a fair system.

[terminalinsanity]

welcome to the steam forums. please ignore the sociopathic trolls who will oppose any suggestion you make.

And i agree, the family thing should be expanded on. Its only fairly recent that a household was unable to play together with the games they bought.

Even Starcraft had the "spawn" copies that enabled family members to play with eachother using one licenced copy, and i made heavy use of that!

it would be nice to see steam implement something similar to starcraft's spawn installs

[MainframeMouse]

The thing is starcraft is playing the same copy of a game. SFS stops you playing DIFFERENT games, which is just not on.

[Royial]

I'm really disappointed, completely defeats the purpose of sharing, i'm limited by the number of accounts, devices and only one person per game, but the entire library? Whats the point. I have a huge library, why can't my friends play one of the literal hundreds of games i own while i play a different one, i already have to authorize a device with my account and a whole bunch of other loopholes, its so limiting its almost pointless.

If i'm a dad, i basically can't share with my own kids, cause one, they can't play if i play, and two only one of them can play on my account at any given time, its barely any better than just letting someone login as yourself, the only benefit is they themselves get achievements for a game, but i'm a frequently on steam, as are my friends, so we never get to make use unless we specifically agree to not play games on our own accounts and only on eachothers.

Its Family Not Sharing, so annoyed with this, hope they up the limit to match the number of authorized accounts, that would just be insanely fair, thats all.