Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs it just me, or have there been a lot of games lately about failing and reconstructing memory, mental trauma, stuff taking place inside the mind trying to put it back together and such like? And if so, is it just a kind of minitrend or does it say something about us as a society?

Kinda related. [External Link]

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OT, but I get real Blade Runner vibes from their choice of typeface for the announcement.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI suspect disabling family sharing will quickly become the default for most studios.

I don't.

Family Sharing has been a Steam feature for over a decade, and of the 67,264 paid games on Steam 189 opted out. The new Family Sharing doesn't do any more to depress sales than the old one did - probably the opposite - it just doesn't really suck for the end user like the old one did.

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In case anyone else is curious, I grabbed a SteamDB query [External Link] of games that have a price that are excluded from Family Sharing.

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Quoting: poiuzI meant whether they're still blocking the same account (my own games on my account, nothing shared) on two devices.

Yes, that's still blocked.

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Quoting: CatKillerNot unless you Family Share with yourself as an alt account.

Did you or someone test this with the beta client? I don't think I saw this scenario mentioned in the FAQ.

I'm pretty sure that having an alt is against the TOS, so they're unlikely to recommend it in their FAQ.

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Quoting: mZSq7Fq3qsDoes this allow me playing a game with my steam deck and another game with my pc?

Not unless you Family Share with yourself as an alt account. You could already play on both with the one account if one of the devices is in offline mode.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI guess the "one person is banned, you're all banned" rule is meant to safeguard against a dozen people all sharing the same game library, but I can't imagine developers and publishers are going to be too thrilled about the possibility of this feature cutting into their sales.

That's not how it works.

The person who got themselves banned is banned. The person who owned the copy of the game (if there are multiple copies in the pool you need to say whose you are playing) also gets banned. Everyone else in the pool can keep playing.

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It very much sounds like a scam to extract money from venture capitalists.

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On the brighter side, Valve do seem to be trying to connect the games with people that would be interested in them even in the face of the flood of 40 new games every day, with the Discovery Queue, recommendations, tags, and so on.

And - just sayin' - making sure your game is Deck Verified is going to get you a place in a smaller pool of games, and gives you a reason for a marketing beat.

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