Quoting: Liam DaweTrue in a way, but it is just the standard Xbox styled layout, so not really an issue and may change before release.

I hope it does. Their promo image is showing the user having to press a button that the machine doesn't actually have. It just seems sloppy.

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Quoting: Liam DaweThat's exactly it. It's Steam Big Picture mode, the glyphs are based on the controller or spoofed controller.

They could have worked with upstream Valve/SDL, though, so that the controller was an actual Orange Pi Neo rather than a spoofed anything.

Of course they've got time to do that still; it's just a mock-up with no release date at the moment. But if they were going to do that, they'd probably have tidied up their mock-up.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualPierre-Loup Griffais for his deep knowledge of OpenGL drivers.

That skilllset isn't especially surprising: Valve poached him from the Linux driver team at Nvidia.

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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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