Steam Announces Family Sharing

[Riperzz]

http://store.steampowered.com/news/11436/

Coming Soon: Players who share computers can also share their Steam games

 

September 11, 2013 – Steam Family Sharing, a new service feature that allows close friends and family members to share their libraries of Steam games, is coming to Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC, Mac, and Linux games and software. The feature will become available next week, in limited beta on Steam.

 

Steam Family Sharing is designed for close friends and family members to play one another's Steam games while each earning their own Steam achievements and storing their own saves and application data to the Steam cloud. It's all enabled by authorizing a shared computer.

 

“Our customers have expressed a desire to share their digital games among friends and family members, just as current retail games, books, DVDs, and other physical media can be shared,” explained Anna Sweet of Valve. “Family Sharing was created in direct response to these user requests.”

 

Once a device is authorized, the lender's library of Steam games becomes available for others on the machine to access, download, and play. Though simultaneous usage of an account’s library is not allowed, the lender may always access and play his games at any time. If he decides to start playing when a friend is borrowing one of his games, the friend will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing.

 

For more information about Steam Family Sharing and the beta program, please visit http://store.steampowered.com/sharing.

[Crazy Swede]

HAHAAHHA! I'm gonna have so much fun to troll my friends with this.

 

Oh, what's that? You're almost at the end? Would be a shame if I canceled your access right now, wouldn't it? :trollface:

[frosty]

Hopefully they add some feature where you can play the same game with someone while sharing, obviously there has to be limitations, but it would be better than it is.

[BlackWhite]

Time to borrow game from friends, ahahahahaha

 

and Swede, you're evil

[Spr00k]

Sounds interesting

[LoneWolf]

Finally. This is a great addition to steam, This will be wonderful

[omarfire00]

Pumped up to start using this new system.

[shoiep]

Still totally confused about the matter but if it's anything like what I think it is..

 

This gun be gud

[Vick]

I like this! :O

[eXtr3m3]

To be honest, this doesn't sound half bad.