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Valve was founded 30 years ago — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam | Microsoft veterans Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded the company on August 24, 1996. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

And if family member x plays one of my games, I cannot play a game or else they’d get kicked.

If you are doing Steam Family Sharing, then the only limit is that you both cannot play the same game at the same time. You can play different games at the same time, even if they are both from your account.

I use the feature all the time, it is great. Convinced my SO to buy a few games already as they tried it from my account, liked it, then bought their own copy so we could play it together.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Oh is that so? actually never bother witu the sharing, was adamant that it was account, not game-restricted. OK even better then. Still far from optimal. You can't just gift a game away you don't want to play anymore. That would be big.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

was adamant that it was account, not game-restricted

This used to be the case, which is probably why you thought that. They improved the feature a few years ago.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

Ahhh makes sense. As I never really used it it vanished off my radar. And rarely things get better than worse 🥴

[–] Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That would be super cool if you could generate a unique code and once its redeemed its removed from your library.

That certainly would he big!

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

And it'd be so simple. Just like you said. But that would hurt sales and help you not to clutter your lib and poorer ppl get cool games too.

Sigh....