I'll never forget Sweeney basically saying that they didn't trust their own technology [External Link] to stop cheaters. I really don't trust their ability to rule out EAC as the source of this vulnerability.

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Quoting: RavenWingsIf I´m the owner of the game, can other accounts kick me out by starting the same game, or does the owner always have priority?

That's covered in the FAQ I linked to earlier in my comment:

What happens if the game I want to play from my Steam Family is in use?

If another member of your Steam Family also owns the game with identical DLC, Steam will launch that copy instead. If there is no copy with identical DLC, Steam will look for any copies of the same game and ask you if you want to switch to playing one of those copies instead, but your saved games may or may not work with different sets of DLC. If there are no other copies available in your Steam Family, you can either wait for the game to be available or buy another copy.

So there's no "kicking" - if you're the owner of the game, but someone in your family is already playing it, you either ask them to stop playing, or buy another copy. You can't kick them, and they don't get to kick you.

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Quoting: scaineWhy you trying to rewrite their comment?

It was just a joke with no intent to polemize, but since you're asking, it's because I sensed a contradiction stemming from the similarity in the outcomes of "for free" and "piracy".

Fair enough. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, and didn't read your tone. My apologies.

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Quoting: chuzzle44the fact that I'm willing to buy a remake of a game I already have for free says

...that software houses needs to make remakes to fight piracy?

No, that anti-piracy measures are pointless. They already said that. Why you trying to rewrite their comment?

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Quoting: hell0For the record -and as much as it pains me to admit it- Windows has had much better permission management than Linux for decades now. ACLs are actually usable on NTFS and non-root account has been the default since at least windows XP (you can do "root" actions from your normal account but that requires validation, just like sudo on linux).

Having had to administrate Windows systems for about 2 decades of my 3 decades in IT, I have to disagree. NTFS/AD permissions are an absolute car crash and since I now work in security, I can also state that an absolutely enormous part of my job is dealing with the fallout of how badly Microsoft failed at "identity" across those decades. Same mistakes over and over - domain admin is now global admin and the cycle of failure repeats.

As for AD vs a "cobbled together LDAP on Linux" - I think you look under the hood, you'll see that AD itself is a cobbled-together-LDAP. Indeed, the early days of AD, you could assume it was LDAP and just use LDAP strings to query it. Same port, even. Then Microsoft did their whole EEE thing, and now it's its own beast.

Everything has gone further to shit with Entra ID now - instead of juggling multiple ADs onsite, you now have connectors to Azure to handle too. It's a mess. It might feel more intuitive on an estate of 100 or less nodes, but at over 2000 you need IAM tools to manage it, or you're screwed.

God I hate Microsoft products so much. My entire professional life has been cursed to limit their awfulness.

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They should just put a Spotify-like limit on family size - like (pluck a number out the air) 6. Sure, there are families bigger than 6 out there, but the kind of family that can afford 6 household members the hardware and internet connection to take advantage of this feature are a) few and far between (I suspect) and b) probably quite rich and not the target audience of this kind of sharing.

EDIT: And... I should have googled before commenting. They've already done so, and it is indeed max 6 members in a Family Group.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/054C-3167-DD7F-49D4 [External Link]

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Absolutely bizarrely, while researching Scottish development studios, today, the same day as this article, but wholly unrelated... I came across EM Studios:
https://www.emstudios.co.uk/?page_id=212 [External Link]

...who worked on Broken Sword! What are the chances.

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Yeah, that's pretty distracting. I thought it was a new YT captioning thing and tried to turn it off!

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualVery interesting usage of LLM tooling. I wonder what the benefits are; it almost seems more costly and more work to do it the way they're doing it.

XKCD sums this up, I reckon. At least, this is my programming life...

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Looking at the top 100 games, it's dominated by multiplayer titles. A few single player games stand out, like Slay the Spire and a handful can be played single player, but there's a big focus on gaming together there.

I think that's all it is. There are so many games that encourage group gaming now, so we're seeing this rise in numbers, both from organic growth, but also from a desire to play with others, either against them (battle royal, or team games like DOTA, PUBG or CoD) or together (co-op focused games, like Helldivers).

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