While steam has historically been “good”, doesn’t mean it’ll stay that way…
Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Meanwhile on Steam my “family” consists of 3 adults with different addresses, last names, and credit cards, who have had accounts for decades and never lived at the same place.
We have full access to each other’s library.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 days ago
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Sure, the 2 constants in the universe are Entropy and Enshitification. When Steam turns to shit I’ll go back to Piracy just like I did when Netflix went to shit.
My point is that companies don’t have to be shit about account sharing and family plans, and people don’t have to accept it.
kayohtie@pawb.social 3 days ago
It’s mostly that a feature on it went from “okayish” to “far more consumer-friendly”, which was incredibly unexpected of them to do. Everyone figured Steam library sharing would die but instead they roll out Family that has far looser restrictions than the system they’d had for over a decade.
Can’t play the same game at the same time unless both own it, and DLC isn’t shared, but my partner being able to play anything I own that I’m not playing is pretty rad of a positive change.
Meanwhile Nintendo’s system got worse instead.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Didn’t know steam even had a family option, it’s good to know
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It’s pretty fantastic! In the past, you could share a library, and playing any game from that library would lock the entire library so others couldn’t use it at the same time. Today, that is loosened up and is much nicer to use.
sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 4 days ago
How do you add new people? I tried and a prompt told me that we don’t seem to share a household.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
I had that error a couple of times, and it inexplicably resolved itself. Try having the person join again (which may require a new invite). I think only 1 out of 4 members of my family were able to join without that initial error message. This was back when Steam had just switched how they handled family sharing, so I assumed it was just an implementation bug of some sort. One of my friends took three attempts before they could join, but it worked ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Though I will note that steam family sharing no longer works if the person is located in another country for the purposes of Steam billing region (so my Norwegian friend could not join my UK family)
Rbnsft@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Login on their PC or let them login on yours
Jeffool@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s the old way of handling it. (And I think it still works.) They have a new implementation that’s just the family group admin sending an invite and the recipient accepting.
Rbnsft@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Which only works If you were in the same Network atleast for me
sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If one changes their password afterwards, will the share persist? Old Steam family sharing broke after changing the passwords.
Rbnsft@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Should still work. Not 100% sure tbh
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Gabe Newell is 62 years old. Gonna enjoy this gravy train while we can…
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Man I hope he lives to a 100 at least, why am I always late to the party, I learn about Limewire and it dies the next year, I get access to my sister’s Netflix account and Netflix goes to shit, I’m finally able to afford a gaming laptop and buy Steam games and now I’m too busy and tired from work to play them and Gabe is getting older. I wish I could go back in time and do things differently
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Instead of wishing it was the past, imagine its the future and you want to go back to now to tell yourself something. What would that be?
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’d tell myself to start investing my money and hit the gym, but I’m unemployed right now and I know once I’m employed again finding the time in this rat race is gonna be difficult but I’m gonna start valuing my time more seriously, I’ve uninstalled doom scroll apps like Instagram and I’m working on time blocking my tasks, hopefully that pays off
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
My understanding is that gaben has already put an action plan in place for when the company moves on from his leadership.
From what I’ve heard of it, the people in line behind Gabe will be upholding the same values.
We should have at least another ~40 years or more of this before sometimes entitled brat inherits the company and sells it off to a foreign interest.
With all that being said: long live gaben.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I like Steam, I like that they aren’t being dicks and treat users well.
That said: billionaires are not your friend.
There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I didn’t say there was.
I just want this specific billionaire to continue to live because, unlike most billionaires, he’s not making my life more difficult.
He’s basically refused to let steam become enshittified. Other billionaires would have long ago succumb to the one that they serve, the almighty dollar, and done whatever they can to extract the most value from their user base. Enshittifying the platform in the process, and actively making my life worse.
So as far as I’m concerned, when it comes to billionaires, gaben is far from the worst.
I have a short list of billionaires that kinda fit into the category of: I don’t mind that they exist.
There’s a much longer list of billionaires that I’d like to see pushing up the daisies.
Not that I can, or would, do anything to make that happen. I just, wouldn’t hate it if it happened.
Soggy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Gaben is gonna be the first person to digitally upload their consciousness.